John Bates
John Bates may refer to:
Sportspeople
- John Bates (American football), American football player
- John Bates (baseball), American baseball player
- Johnny Bates (baseball), American baseball player
- John Bates (basketball), American college basketball coach
Other people
- John Bates (technology executive), British computer scientist and businessman
- John Bates (designer), English fashion designer
- John C. Bates, U.S. general and army chief of staff 1906
- John L. Bates, U.S. political figure and governor of Massachusetts 1903–1905
- John D. Bates, federal judge appointed by George W. Bush
- John Bates (rector), eighteenth-century Senior Wrangler; see List of Wranglers of the University of Cambridge
- Big John Bates, Canadian guitarist and singer
- John Bates (neurophysiologist), English neurophysiologist
- John Grenville Bates, co-founder of the American Kennel Club
Fictional characters
- John Bates, a character from the period drama soap opera Downton Abbey
- Johnny Bates, alter ego of Kid Marvelman