Michael Bates may refer to:
- Michael Bates (actor) (1920–1978), British actor born in Jhansi, India
- Michael Bates (American football) (born 1969), sprinter and American football kick returner
- Michael Bates, Baron Bates (born 1961), British Conservative Party politician and Paymaster General from 1996 to 1997
- Michael Bates (cricketer, born 1983), New Zealand cricketer
- Michael Bates (cricketer, born 1990), English cricketer who currently plays for Hampshire
- Michael Bates, Prince of the Principality of Sealand
Famous quotes containing the words michael and/or bates:
“Lisa Fremont: Surprise is the most important element of attack. And besides, you’re not up on your private eye literature. When they’re in trouble it’s always their girl Friday who gets them out of it.
L.B. Jeffries: Well, is she the girl who saves him from the clutches of the seductive show girls and the over passionate daughters of the rich?
Lisa Fremont: The same.
L.B. Jeffries: That’s the one, huh? But he never ends up marrying her, does he? That’s strange.”
—John Michael Hayes (b. 1919)
“A boy’s best friend is his mother.”
—Joseph Stefano, U.S. screenwriter, and Alfred Hitchcock. Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins)