Gates family

The Gates family refers to the members of Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates's family and relatives who include:

William Henry Gates, his paternal great-grandfather
Rebecca Eppinhauser, his paternal great-grandmother
- William Henry Gates I, his paternal grandfather
William H. Rice, his maternal great-grandfather
Isabella Thompson, his maternal great-grandmother
- Lillian Elizabeth Rice, his paternal grandmother
  - William Henry Gates, Sr., his father
James Willard Maxwell, his maternal great-grandfather
Belle Oakley, his maternal great-grandmother
- James W. Maxwell, his maternal grandfather
William J. Thompson, his maternal grandmother, Adele Thompson,'s father
Ida Medcalf, his maternal grandmother, Adele Thompson,'s mother
- Adele Thompson, his maternal grandmother
  - Mary Maxwell Gates, his mother
    - Kristianne "Kristi" Gates Blake, his elder sister
    - Elizabeth "Libby" Gates Armintrout, his younger sister
    - William Henry Gates III, commonly known as Bill Gates
    - Melinda French Gates, his wife
      - Jennifer Katharine Gates, his daughter born in 1996
      - Rory John Gates, his son born in 1999
      - Phoebe Adele Gates, his daughter born in 2002
  - Mimi Gardner Gates, second wife of William, Sr.