Miscellaneous
- Andrea Yates, woman acquitted, by reason of insanity, of drowning her five children
- Charles Yates, (died September 29, 1870) was a brigadier-general during the American Civil War.
- George Yates, Army officer and friend of George Armstrong Custer
- John Yates, former Assistant Commissioner in the Metropolitan Police Service
- Robert Lee Yates, serial killer
- William Yates, fifth president of William and Mary College.
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