Gates

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Gates is a surname, and may refer to:

Contents 1 People 2 Fictional characters 3 Geography 4 See also

[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
• Melinda Gates, American philanthropist, wife of Bill Gates
• William H. Gates, Sr., 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:

• Alma Gates, American local politician
• 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)
• Ryan Gates, American police chief (Fowler, CO)
• Ralph F. Gates, onetime Governor of Indiana
• Robert Gates, 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
• Cyrus Gates
• 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, American voice actor
• Merrill Edwards Gates, American scholar
• 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

See also:

• Gates McFadden, American actress and choreographer

[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
• Gates (comics), fictional character, an insectoid member of the Legion of Super-Heroes

[edit] Geography

• Gates, New York, town in Monroe County, New York
• Gates, Oregon, city in Linn County, Oregon, United States
• Gates, Tennessee, town in Lauderdale County, Tennessee, United States
• Gates County, North Carolina, county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina
• Gates Mills, Ohio, village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States

[edit] See also

• Gate
• Logic Gate, components in electronics
• The Gates, project by Christo and Jeanne-Claude