David Bates

David Bates may refer to:

  • David Bates (artist) (1840-1921, English artist, primarily of landscapes
  • David Bates (composer) (1936–1974), American contemporary music composer
  • David Bates (groundsman), English cricketer and groundskeeper
  • David Bates (historian) (born 1945), writer of books about William I of England and Odo of Bayeux
  • David Bates (physicist) (1916–1994), winner of the 1970 Hughes Medal
  • David Bates (pianist), see List of classical pianists
  • David Bates (poet) (1809–1870), American poet
  • David Bates (rugby league), rugby league footballer for Ireland, Warrington Wolves, Castleford Tigers, Gateshead Thunder, Halifax, and York City Knights
  • David Bates (swimmer)

Famous quotes containing the words david and/or bates:

    “The pork sizzles and cries for fish. Luckily for the foolish race, and this particularly foolish generation of trout, the night shut down at last, not a little deepened by the dark side of Ktaadn, which, like a permanent shadow, reared itself from the eastern bank.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “A boy’s best friend is his mother.”
    —Joseph Stefano, U.S. screenwriter, and Alfred Hitchcock. Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins)