Cates

Cates is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Challen Cates (born 1967), American actress
• Clifton Bledsoe Cates (1893–1970), 19th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
• David Allan Cates (born 1956), American novelist
• Fatima Cates (1865–1900), British Muslim convert and activist
• George Cates (1911-2002), American musical conductor associated with Lawrence Welk
• George Edward Cates (1892-1917), English recipient of the Victoria Cross in World War I
• Gilbert Cates (1934-2011), American film director
• Kristy Cates (born 1977), American stage actress and singer
• Michael Cates (born 1961), Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University
• Miriam Cates (born 1982), British Member of Parliament elected 2019
• Noah Cates (born 1999), American ice hockey player
• Opie Cates (1909-1987), American band leader
• Phoebe Cates (born 1963), American film actress
• Richard Cates (1925-2011), American lawyer and politician

Fictional

• Bertram Cates, character in the 1955 play Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee