Bates (disambiguation)

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Bates is a common surname.

Bates may also refer to:

Places[]

People[]

  • Bates family, 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, a liberal arts college founded in 1855 in Lewiston, Maine
  • Bates Technical College, a technical college founded in 1940 in Tacoma, Washington
  • Bates Theological Seminary, also known as Cobb Divinity School

Companies and industries[]

  • Bates 141, an advertising agency renamed Bates in 2011
  • Bates Mill, a factory founded 1854 in Lewiston, Maine, producing textiles, also the site of an industrial park

Transportation and vehicles[]

  • BATES, an acronym for BAllistic Test and Evaluation System
  • Bates (automobile), an automobile manufactured by the Bates Automobile Company
  • Bates Monoplane, a pioneering aircraft built by Carl Sterling Bates in 1911

Other[]

  • Bates method, a method of vision improvement
  • Bates numbering, a number system for standardized document identification used in the legal, medical, and business fields
  • The Bates, a German punk band
  • Bates Uniform Footwear, a brand of footwear owned by Wolverine World Wide

See also[]

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