General Yates may refer to:
Arthur Wolcott Yates (1865–1930), U.S. Army brigadier general David Peel Yates (1911–1978), British Army lieutenant general Donald Norton Yates (1909–1993), U.S. Army Air Force major general Elmer P. Yates (1917–2011), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers major general Ronald W. Yates (born 1938), U.S. Army Air Force general Walter H. Yates Jr. (born 1941), U.S. Army brigadier general