'''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: {{Infobox surname | name = Bateson |image= |imagesize= |caption= | pronunciation = | meaning = "son of Batte" | region = Anglo-Saxon
| variant = Bate, Bates, Batey, Batson, Battey, Batts, Batty, Battye | footnotes = }} * 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
==See also== * Bates (disambiguation) * Beatson (disambiguation)
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