William Bates

William Bates may refer to: William Bates (minister) (1625–1699), English Presbyterian minister William Bates (Quaker) (died 1700), founder of Newton Colony, the third English settlement in West New Jersey William Bates (Australian politician) (1825–1891), politician in colonial Victoria William Bates (cricketer) (1884–1957), English cricketer William Bates (physician) (1860–1931), American physician William Gelston Bates (1803–1880), Massachusetts state legislator William H. Bates (1917–1969), politician Houston Bates (William Houston Bates, born 1991), American football linebacker Bill Bates (born 1961), American football player William Penn Bates (1879–1956), American football player and coach William Bates (Emmerdale), fictional character on ITV soap opera Emmerdale