title: Richard Yates
text: # Richard Yates
  
  Richard Yates may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Richard Yates (actor) (1706–1796), English comic actor
  * Richard Yates (antiquary) (1769–1834), English cleric
  * Richard Yates (politician, born 1815) (1815–1873), 13th governor of Illinois (1861–1865), U.S. Senator from Illinois (1865–1871), U.S. Congressman from Illinois (1851–1855), member of Illinois House of Representatives (1842–1845, 1848–1849)
     * Richard Yates Jr. (1860–1936), his son, 22nd governor of Illinois (1901–1905), U.S. Congressman from Illinois (1919–1933)
  * Dick Yates (1921–1976), Welsh footballer
  * Richard Yates (novelist) (1926–1992), American novelist and short-story writer
  * Richard Yates (athlete) (born 1986), English athlete
  
  ## Novels
  
  * Richard Yates (novel), 2010 novel by Tao Lin
  