Spate is a surname, and may refer to:
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Clive Spate (born 1952), British game show contestant
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Oskar Spate
Oskar Hermann Khristian Spate (30 March 191129 May 2000) was a geographer best known for his role in strengthening geography as a discipline in Australia and the Pacific.
Early life
Spate was born to a German father and an English mother in the ...
(1911–2000), geographer
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Virginia Spate
Virginia Margaret Spate (; 1937 – 12 August 2022) was a British-born Australian art historian and academic.
Spate was born in the United Kingdom in 1937. She lived in Burma as a child until her family was evacuated during the Pacific War. I ...
(1937–2022), Australian art historian
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Ute Späte (born 1961), German chess master
Spate may also refer to a
flood
A flood is an overflow of water ( or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrol ...
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See also
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Pate (disambiguation)
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Spade (disambiguation)
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Spat (disambiguation)
Spat may refer to:
* Spat (unit), a unit of solid angle
* Spats (footwear), a type of shoe accessory
* Wheel spats, British term for aerodynamic fairings that reduce the drag on fixed-undercarriage aircraft
* Spat, the past tense of spit
* Spat ( ...
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