This article is about the surname. For the asteroid, see
3689 Yeates. For the bluff in Antarctica, see
Yeates Bluff.
Yeates is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Comfort Yeates (born 2005), British trampoline gymnast
- David Yeates, Irish musician
- Fergus Yeates (1912–1992), Australian cricketer
- Gregor W. Yeates (1944–2012), New Zealand nematologist
- Herbert Yeates (1879–1945), Australian politician.
- J. Lanier Yeates (born 1945), American writer
- Jasper Yeates (1745–1817), American lawyer and judge
- Jeff Yeates (born 1951), American football player
- Jesse Johnson Yeates (1829–1892), American politician
- Joanna Yeates (1985–2010), English landscape architect who was murdered
- John Yeates (born 1938), Australian football player
- John Stuart Yeates (1900–1986), New Zealand botanist
- Mark Yeates (born 1985), Irish football player
- Mark Yeates (Australian rules footballer) (born 1960)
- Martin Yeates (born 1953), English motorcycle racer
- Thomas Yeates (born 1955), American comics artist
- Thomas Yeates (orientalist) (1768–1869), English linguist
- Victor Maslin Yeates (1897–1934), English fighter pilot and writer
- Victoria Yeates (born 1983), English actress