Pate (surname)
Pate is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alan Pate, American golfer
- Archie Pate, American Negro league baseball player
- Ashby Pate, American lawyer and former associate justice of Palau
- Bertha Lee Pate, American blues singer
- Bob Pate, American baseball player
- Bobby Pate, American football player and coach
- Brooks Pate, American professor of chemistry
- Christine Pomponio-Pate, American competitive fitness model and actress
- Danny Pate, American bicycle racer
- David Pate, American tennis player
- Henry Clay Pate, soldier defeated in Kansas by John Brown
- James Leonard Pate, American oil executive, economist, and author
- Janez Pate, Slovenian football player and manager
- Jerry Pate, American golfer
- Joe Pate, American baseball player
- John Pate (American football), American football coach
- John Pate (councillor), of Virginia
- Johnny Pate, American jazz bass guitarist, music arranger, and record producer
- Jonas Pate, American screenwriter, director, and producer
- Josh Pate, American screenwriter, director, and producer
- Kimberly Pate several people
- Klytie Pate Australian potter, ceramicist, and artist
- Lloyd Pate, American football player
- Louis M. Pate Jr., American politician
- Martha Lucas Pate, American educator, administrator, philanthropist
- Maurice Pate, American humanitarian and businessman
- Michael Pate, Australian actor, writer, director, and WWII Army veteran
- Miguel Pate, American track and field athlete, and Olympic competitor
- Muhammad Ali Pate, Nigerian civil servant and public health doctor
- Nick Pate, American professional ten-pin bowler
- Paul Pate, American businessman and politician
- Randolph M. Pate, US Marine Commandant
- Richard Pate, English landowner, politician, and founder of Pate's Grammar School
- Richard Pate (burgess), of Virginia
- Richard Pate (bishop), English bishop
- Rick Pate, American politician
- Robert Pate, British army officer known for his assault of Queen Victoria in 1850
- Rupert Pate, American football player
- Sandy Pate, Scottish footballer
- Stephen Pate, Australian cyclist and Olympic competitor
- Steve Pate, American golfer
- Thomas Pate (burgess), English merchant, planter, military officer, ferry owner and politician
- Tom Pate, American linebacker for the Canadian Football League
- Walter Pate, American politician