Bates

Bates is a common surname.

Bates may also refer to:

Colleges and universities

• Bates College, a liberal arts college founded in 1855 in Lewiston, Maine
• Bates Technical College, a technical college founded in 1940 in Tacoma, Washington

Places

• Bates, Michigan, a community in Grand Traverse County
• Bates, New York, a hamlet in the town of Ellington in Chautauqua County
• Bates Island, Biscoe Islands, Antarctica
• Bates Township, Michigan, in Iron County
• Bates Park Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Polk County, Iowa

Companies and industries

• Bates 141, advertising agency renamed Bates in 2011
• Bates Mill, a factory founded 1854 in Lewiston, Maine, producing textiles, also the site of an industrial park

Other

• Bates (automobile), an automobile manufactured by the Bates Automobile Company
• Bates method, a method of vision improvement
• Bates Monoplane, a pioneering aircraft built by Carl Sterling Bates in 1911
• Bates numbering, a number system for standardized document identification used in the legal, medical, and business fields.
• Bates Uniform Footwear, a brand of footwear owned by Wolverine World Wide
• The Bates, a German punk band
• BATES, an acronym for BAllistic Test and Evaluation System