Bates may refer to:

Places

Bates, Arkansas Bates is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Scott County, Arkansas, Scott County, Arkansas, United States. It is the location or nearest community of Bates School (Bates, Arkansas), Bates School, at 1074 Bates School Rd., which ...

, an unincorporated community * Bates, Illinois. an unincorporated community in Sangamon County * Bates, Michigan, a community in Grand Traverse County * Bates, New York, a hamlet in the town of Ellington in Chautauqua County *

Bates, Oregon Bates is an unincorporated community in Grant County, Oregon, United States. It has a post office with a ZIP code 97817. The elevation is . On December 30, 1960, the Oregon Lumber Company sold the Bates mill and townsite to the Edward Hines Lum ...

, unincorporated community in Grant County *

Bates County, Missouri Bates County is a County (United States), county located in the west central part of the U.S. state of Missouri, two counties south of the Missouri River and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States census, 202 ...

, county in Missouri * Bates Island, Biscoe Islands, Antarctica *

Bates Island (Massachusetts) Bates Island is a forested and uninhabited island located in Lake Chaubunagungamaug in Webster, Massachusetts Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Nor ...

, Island in Lake Chaubunagungamaug * Bates Point, in Victoria Land, Antarctica * Bates Pond (Carver, Massachusetts), Twenty-acre pond * Bates State Park, in Grant County, Oregon *

Bates Township, Michigan Bates Township is a civil township of Iron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 1,021, though in 2020 its population was 925. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau The ...

, in Iron County

People

* Bates (surname), a common surname *

Bates family The Bates family is an American political and banking family from Maine and Massachusetts whose members include a member of the Hell Fire Club, the 26th U.S. Attorney General serving under Abraham Lincoln, the second Governor of Missouri, a m ...

, a banking family in the United States and the United Kingdom * Bates Gill (born 1959), American political scientist * Bates Lowry (1923–2004), American art historian

Organizations

Colleges and universities

Bates College Bates College () is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine. Anchored by the Historic Quad, the campus of Bates totals with a small urban campus which includes 33 Victorian ...

, a liberal arts college founded in 1855 in Lewiston, Maine *

Bates Technical College Bates Technical College is a public technical college in Tacoma, Washington. The college offers Associate of Applied Science degrees, academic certificates, and industry certifications. Bates is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Col ...

, a technical college founded in 1940 in Tacoma, Washington *

Bates Theological Seminary Cobb Divinity School (also known as Bates Theological Seminary or the Free Will Baptist Bible School) was a Baptist theological institute. Founded in 1840, it was a Free Will Baptist graduate school affiliated with several Free Baptist institution ...

, also known as Cobb Divinity School

Companies and industries

Bates 141 Bates CHI & Partners (formerly Bates 141 and Bates) is an advertising and marketing agency and a member of the WPP Group. History The Bates brand was born in 1940, when Ted Bates opened his first office, Ted Bates Inc. In New York Ted eventua ...

, an advertising agency renamed Bates in 2011 *

Bates Mill The Bates Mill is a textile factory company founded in 1850 and located at 35 Canal Street in Lewiston, Maine. The mill served as Maine's largest employer through the 1860s, and early profits from the mill provided much of the initial capital fo ...

, a factory founded 1854 in Lewiston, Maine, producing textiles, also the site of an industrial park

Transportation and vehicles

BATES Bates may refer to: Places * Bates, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Bates, Illinois. an unincorporated community in Sangamon County * Bates, Michigan, a community in Grand Traverse County * Bates, New York, a hamlet in the town of Elli ...

, an acronym for BAllistic Test and Evaluation System *

Bates (automobile) The Bates was an automobile manufactured in Lansing, Michigan, by the Bates Automobile Company from 1903 to 1905. The Bates was the brainchild of M.F. Bates, who was vice-president of the company. History Bates Automobile was organized on May ...

, an automobile manufactured by the Bates Automobile Company *

Bates Monoplane The Bates Monoplane is a pioneering aircraft built by Carl Sterling Bates in 1911. Design and development Bates developed his first aircraft, a piloted kite in 1898 at the age of 14 at Clear Lake, Iowa. Later as a student of Octave Chanute, h ...

, a pioneering aircraft built by Carl Sterling Bates in 1911

Other

Bates method The Bates method is an ineffective and potentially dangerous alternative medicine, alternative therapy aimed at improving visual acuity, eyesight. Eye-care physician William Bates (physician), William Horatio Bates (1860–1931) held the err ...

, a method of vision improvement *

Bates numbering Bates numbering (also known as Bates stamping, Bates branding, Bates coding or Bates labeling) is a method of sequentially Pagination, numbering pages with a reference number. A hand-operated Bates numbering device is used to "stamp" a number on ...

, a number system for standardized document identification used in the legal, medical, and business fields *

The Bates __NOTOC__ The Bates were a German Punk rock, punk band, founded in Eschwege, federal state of Hessen, in 1987. The name referred to the character Norman Bates from Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film, ''Psycho (1960 film), Psycho''. The Bates were ma ...

, a German punk band * Bates Uniform Footwear, a brand of footwear owned by

Wolverine World Wide Wolverine World Wide, Inc. or Wolverine Worldwide, is a publicly traded American footwear manufacturer based in Rockford, Michigan. The shoemaker is known for its eponymous brand, Wolverine Boots and Shoes, as well as other brands, such as Hush ...

* Battlefield Artillery Target Engagement System (BATES), a force-multiplier computer system procured for the British Army from

Marconi Electronic Systems Marconi Electronic Systems Limited (MES), or GEC-Marconi as it was until 1998, was the defence arm of General Electric Company (GEC). It was split off from GEC and bought by British Aerospace (BAe) on 30 November 1999 to form BAE Systems. GEC ...