Bateson

Bateson is an English language patronymic surname meaning "son of Batte", a medieval diminutive of Bartholomew. It is rare as a given name. People with the surname Bateson include:

• Bob Bateson (born 1961), American football player
• Edith Bateson (1867–1938), English artist
• Frank Bateson (1909–2007), New Zealand astronomer
• Frederick Wilse Bateson (1901–1978), English literary scholar
• Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), British anthropologist (son of William Bateson)
• Jack Bateson (born 1994), British boxer
• Mary Catherine Bateson (1939–2021), U.S. writer and anthropologist (daughter of Gregory Bateson)
• Patrick Bateson (1938–2017), British biologist and science writer
• Paul Bateson (born 1940), American radiological technician who appeared in The Exorcist and was later convicted of a murder
• Thomas Bateson (c.1570–1630), English madrigal composer
• Thomas Bateson, 1st Baron Deramore (1819–1890), British Conservative politician
• Timothy Bateson (1926–2009), British actor
• William Bateson (1861–1926), British geneticist who coined the term "genetics"
• William Henry Bateson (1812–1881), British academic

• Bates (disambiguation)
• Beatson (disambiguation)

Surname list

This page lists people with the surname Bateson.
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