Gates (surname)
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Gates is a surname, and may refer to:
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[edit] People
The Gates family of Seattle, Washington, is prominent due to the financial success of Bill Gates and his company, Microsoft. Members of this family include:
- Bill Gates (born 1955), Chairman of Microsoft[1]
- Melinda Gates, American philanthropist, wife of Bill Gates
- William H. Gates, Sr., retired attorney and American philanthropist, Bill's father
- Mary Maxwell Gates, American philanthropist, Bill's mother
- Mimi Gardner Gates, American art historian, William Sr.'s second wife
Several athletes have the surname Gates:
- Antonio Gates, American professional football player
- Brent Gates, American professional baseball player
- Lionel Gates, American professional football player
- Mathew Gates, American figure skater
- William 'Pop' Gates, member of the Harlem Globetrotters
Civil servants with the surname Gates have included:
- Artemus Gates, American financier and Undersecretary of the Navy during World War II
- Charles W. Gates (1856-1927), 20th century Governor of Vermont
- Daryl Gates, American police chief (Los Angeles, CA)
- Ralph F. Gates, onetime Governor of Indiana
- Robert Gates, Former President of Texas A&M, former CIA director, US Secretary of Defense
- Seth Merrill Gates, 19th century American politician
- Several men named Thomas Gates:
- Sir Thomas Gates (1585-1621), Governor of colonial Virginia
- Thomas Sovereign Gates, Sr. (1873-1948), American banker and university president
- Thomas S. Gates, Jr. (1906-1983), American politician
Other people with the surname Gates include:
- Bill Gates (frontiersman), a participant in the Klondike Gold Rush
- Charles Gates, Jr., of the Gates Rubber Company
- Christopher T. Gates, American philanthropist
- Crawford Gates, American composer and musician
- David Gates (born 1940), singer-songwriter
- David Gates (author) (born 1947), author-journalist
- Debbie Gates, British television writer-producer
- Deborah Gates, American actress
- Frederick T. Gates, American minister (Baptist) and advisor to the Rockefeller family
- Gareth Gates, British pop musician
- Giacomo Gates, American jazz musician
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr (born 1950), American scholar
- Hilliard Gates, American sports journalist
- Horatio Gates (1726-1806), Revolutionary War American General
- John Gates, American political activist
- John Warne Gates, American industrialist
- Julius W. Gates, onetime Sergeant Major of the U.S. Army
- Katharine Gates, American writer
- Ken Gates, pseudonym for American voice actor Rodger Parsons
- Merrill Edwards Gates, American scholar
- Robert Gates, 22nd United States Secretary of Defense
- Rick Gates, American software developer
- Sylvester James Gates, American theoretical physicist
- Tucker Gates, American television director
- Vickie Gates, an American female bodybuilder
- William Gates, American minister
- William Thomas George Gates (1908-1990), British banker
[edit] Fictional characters
- Conrad Gates, fictional British television character
- Elsa Gates, fictional British television character
- Jack Gates, fictional British television character
- Tony Gates, fictional American television character
- Benjamin Franklin Gates fictional character in the movie National Treasure
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