Oates (surname)
Appearance
Oates is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Adam Oates, professional ice hockey player
- Colin Oates (born 1983), English judoka
- Corey Oates (born 1994), Australian rugby league player
- Cynthia de la Vega Oates, Mexican model
- Dan Oates, American police chief
- Eugene William Oates (1845–1911), English naturalist
- Frank Oates, British African explorer
- Graham Oates (footballer born 1943), English footballer
- Graham Oates (footballer born 1949), English footballer
- Jackie Oates (born 1983), English folk musician
- John Oates, musician and producer of Hall & Oates
- Johnny Oates, former catcher and manager in Major League Baseball
- Joyce Carol Oates, American author, novelist, poet, and playwright
- Lawrence Oates, British Antarctic explorer
- Simon Oates, British actor
- Stephen B. Oates, American author and biographer
- T. Oates (rugby league), 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 (disambiguation)
- Wallace Eugene Oates, American economist, author of numerous works on fiscal federalism