Oates

Oates is a surname, most notably associated with Joyce Carol Oates, the prolific American novelist and short story writer known for works exploring violence, class, and American life.

The name also belongs to John Oates of the pop duo Hall & Oates, and to Titus Oates, the 17th-century English clergyman infamous for fabricating the Popish Plot.

Captain Lawrence Oates was the Antarctic explorer who famously walked into a blizzard to save his companions.