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surname meaning ''"son of Batte"'', a medieval diminutive of

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. People with the surname Bateson include: * Edith Bateson (1867–1938), English artist *

Frank Bateson Frank Maine Bateson (31 October 1909 – 16 April 2007) was a New Zealand astronomer who specialised in the study of variable stars. Biography Bateson was born in Wellington on 31 October 1909 and studied in Australia and New Zealand. His inte ...

(1909–2007), New Zealand astronomer *

Frederick Wilse Bateson Frederick (Noel) Wilse Bateson (1901 – 1978) was an English literary scholar and critic. Life Bateson was born in Cheshire, and educated at Charterhouse and at Trinity College, Oxford (That which you wish to be secret, tell to nobody) , name ...

(1901–1978), English literary scholar * Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), British anthropologist (son of William Bateson) * Jack Bateson (born 1994), British boxer *

Mary Catherine Bateson Mary Catherine Bateson (December 8, 1939 – January 2, 2021) was an American writer and cultural anthropologist. The daughter of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, Bateson was a noted author in her field with many published monographs. ...

(1939-2021), U.S. writer and anthropologist (daughter of Gregory Bateson) *

Patrick Bateson Sir Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson, (31 March 1938 – 1 August 2017) was an English biologist with interests in ethology and phenotypic plasticity. Bateson was a professor at the University of Cambridge and served as president of the Zoologi ...

(1938–2017), British biologist and science writer *

Paul Bateson Paul Bateson (born August 24, 1940) is an American convicted murderer and former radiographer. He appeared as a radiologic technologist in a scene from the 1973 horror film ''The Exorcist'', which was inspired when the film's director, William F ...

(born 1940), American radiological technician who appeared in ''

The Exorcist ''The Exorcist'' is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by William Friedkin and written for the screen by William Peter Blatty, based on his 1971 novel of the same name. It stars Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty ...

'' and was later convicted of a murder *

Thomas Bateson Thomas Bateson, ''Batson'' or ''Betson'' (c. 15701630) was an Anglo-Irish writer of madrigals in the early 17th century. Life He is said to have been organist of Chester Cathedral Chester Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral and the ...

(c.1570–1630), English madrigal composer *

Thomas Bateson, 1st Baron Deramore Thomas Bateson, 1st Baron Deramore DL (4 June 1819 – 1 December 1890), known as Sir Thomas Bateson, 2nd Bt from 1863 until 1885, was a British peer and Conservative Party politician. Early life Bateson was the son of Sir Robert Bateson, 1st ...

(1819-1890), British Conservative politician *

Timothy Bateson Timothy Dingwall Bateson (3 April 1926 – 15 September 2009) was an English actor. Life and career Born in London, the son of solicitor Dingwall Latham Bateson and the great-nephew of rugby player Harold Dingwall Bateson, he was educated at ...

(1926–2009), British actor *

William Bateson William Bateson (8 August 1861 – 8 February 1926) was an English biologist who was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscove ...

(1861–1926), British geneticist who coined the term "genetics" *

William Henry Bateson William Henry Bateson (3 June 1812, Liverpool – 27 March 1881, Cambridge) was a British academic, who served as Master of St John's College, Cambridge. The son of Richard Bateson, a Liverpool merchant, Bateson was educated at Shrewsbury School ...

(1812–1881), British academic

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