title: William Coates
text: # William Coates
  
  William Coates may refer to:
  
  * Sir William Coates, 1st Baronet (1866–1932), Irish stockbroker, Lord Mayor of Belfast, 1920–1923, 1929–1931
  * William Coates (businessman) (1882–1963), British civil servant and businessman
  * William Coates (longevity claimant) (1911–2004), American alleged centenarian
  * William Peyton Coates (1883–1963), Irish labour activist and communist
  * William Coates (technician) (1919–1993), science communicator, lecturer and technician
  * William Paul Coates (born 1946), African-American publisher and father of Ta-Nehisi Coates
  