Elizabeth Yates may refer to:

Elizabeth Yates (actress) (1799–1860), English actress Elizabeth Yates (writer) (1905–2001), American author Elizabeth Yates (mayor) (1845–1918), first female mayor of the British Empire, in Onehunga, New Zealand Elizabeth Upham Yates (1857–1942), American suffragist and missionary in China See also Elizabeth Yeats (1868–1940), Anglo-Irish educator and publisher, daughter of J.B. Yeats