John Bates may refer to: Sportspeople John Bates (American football) (born 1997), American football player John Bates (baseball) (1868–1919), American baseball player Johnny Bates (baseball) (1882–1949), American baseball player John Bates (basketball) (1938–2015), American college basketball coach Other people John Bates (technology executive), British computer scientist and businessman John Bates (designer) (1935–2022), English fashion designer John C. Bates (1842–1919), U.S. general and army chief of staff 1906 John L. Bates (1859–1946), U.S. political figure and governor of Massachusetts 1903–1905 John D. Bates (born 1946), 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) (1918–1993), English neurophysiologist John Grenville Bates (1880–1944), 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 See also John Bates Clark (1847–1938), American economist John Bates Thurston (1836–1897), British colonial in Fiji Jonathan Bates (1939–2008), English sound editor John Bate (disambiguation)