Oates (surname)
Oates is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Adam Oates, professional ice hockey player
- Alice Oates, actress and musical theatre pioneer
- Colin Oates, English judoka
- Corey Oates, Australian rugby league player
- Cynthia de la Vega Oates, Mexican model
- Dan Oates, American police chief
- Denese Oates, Australian artist
- Eugene William Oates, English naturalist
- Frank Oates, British African explorer
- Graham Oates, English footballer
- Graham Oates, English footballer
- Jackie Oates, English folk musician
- John Oates, musician and producer of Hall & Oates
- John Oates British architect
- Johnny Oates, former catcher and manager in Major League Baseball
- Joyce Carol Oates, American author, novelist, poet, and playwright
- Lawrence Oates, British Antarctic explorer
- Olen Tray Oates,, All-American pole vaulter, Samford University
- Simon Oates, British actor
- Stephen B. Oates, American author and biographer
- T. Oates, rugby league player
- Tom Oates, American sportswriter
- Warren Oates, American character actor
- Titus Oates, 17th-century perjurer who fabricated a fraudulent Catholic plot to kill King Charles II of England
- William Oates
- Wallace Eugene Oates, American economist, author of numerous works on fiscal federalism
- Peter John Oates, Anglo-Irish author and screen writer
