Bata is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
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Bata LoBagola
Bata Kindai Amgoza ibn LoBagola (1877–1947) was an early 20th-century American impostor and entertainer who presented an exoticized identity as a native of Africa, when in reality he was born Joseph Howard Lee in Baltimore, Maryland. Despite ...
(1877–1947), early 20th-century American impostor and entertainer
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Bata Paskaljević
Mihajlo "Bata" Paskaljević ( sr-cyr, Михајло "Бата" Паскаљевић; 14 January 1923 – 26 January 2004) was a Serbian stage, film, and television actor, permanent member of the Belgrade Drama Theatre since 1950.[ ...]
(1923–2004), Serbian actor
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Bata Kameni
Bata Kameni ( sr-cyr, Бата Камени; 30 July 1941 – 24 May 2017) was a Serbian actor and stunt performer. The most famous Serbian stuntman, Kameni appeared in more than 500 films and TV series. Born in Belgrade, Serbia. Elementary and s ...
(born 1941), Serbian actor and stunt performer
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Agustín Sauto Arana
Agustín Sauto Arana (11 May 1908 – 21 August 1986), known as Bata, was a Spanish footballer who played as a striker.
He spent most of his career with Athletic Bilbao, scoring 208 goals in as many matches across all competitions and winning ...
(1908–1986), Spanish footballer
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Bata Živojinović
Velimir "Bata" Živojinović ( sr-Cyrl, Велимир "Бата" Живојиновић; 5 June 1933 – 22 May 2016) was a Yugoslav and Serbian actor and politician. He appeared in more than 340 films and TV series, and is regarded as one of ...
(born 1933), Serbian actor and politician
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Danilo Stojković
Danilo Stojković ( sr-cyr, Данило Стојковић; 11 August 1934 – 16 March 2002), commonly nicknamed Bata (Бата), was a Serbian theatre, television and film actor. Stojković's numerous comedic portrayals of the "small man fig ...
(1934–2002), Serbian actor
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Efren Reyes
Efren Manalang Reyes (born August 26, 1954), popularly known by the nickname "Bata" (English: "Kid"), is a Filipino professional pool player. Reyes is widely considered one of the greatest pool players of all time. A winner of over 100 inte ...
(born 1954), Filipino pool player
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Zoran Mirković
Zoran "Bata" Mirković ( sr-cyrl, Зоран Бата Мирковић, ; born 21 September 1971) is a retired Serbian footballer and current manager.
Playing career Club career
Mirković made his first appearance for FK Rad during the 1990– ...
(born 1971), Serbian footballer
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Tomáš Baťa
Tomáš Baťa () (3 April 1876 – 12 July 1932) was a Czech entrepreneur and founder of the Bata shoe company. His career was cut short when he died in a plane accident due to bad weather.
His half-brother Jan Antonín Baťa took over his compa ...
(1876–1932), Czech shoe company founder
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Jan Antonín Baťa
Jan Antonín Baťa (March 7, 1898 – August 23, 1965) (also known as ''Jan Antonin Bata'' or ''Jan Bata'', called The King of Shoes) was a Czech- Brazilian shoe manufacturer from Uherské Hradiště (southeastern Moravia), half-brother of Tomáš ...
(1898–1965), half-brother of the founder
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István Bata
István Bata (5 March 1910 – 17 August 1982) was a Hungarian military officer and politician who served as Minister of Defence from 1953 to 1956.
Biography
A factory worker, Bata joined the Social Democratic Party of Hungary in 1930. He ...
(1910–1982), Hungarian military officer and politician
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Thomas J. Bata (1914–2008), son of the founder
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