Bata is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
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Bata LoBagola
Bata Kindai Amgoza ibn LoBagola (1877–1947) was an early 20th-century American impostor and entertainer who presented an exoticized identity as a native of Africa, when in reality he was born Joseph Howard Lee in Baltimore, Maryland. Despite ...
(1877–1947), early 20th-century American impostor and entertainer
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Bata Paskaljević (1923–2004), Serbian actor
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Bata Kameni (born 1941), Serbian actor and stunt performer
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Agustín Sauto Arana (1908–1986), Spanish footballer
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Bata Živojinović
Velimir "Bata" Živojinović ( sr-Cyrl, Велимир "Бата" Живојиновић; 5 June 1933 – 22 May 2016) was a Yugoslav and Serbian actor and politician. He appeared in more than 340 films and TV series, and is regarded as one of ...
(born 1933), Serbian actor and politician
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Danilo Stojković (1934–2002), Serbian actor
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Efren Reyes
Efren Manalang Reyes (born August 26, 1954), popularly known by the nickname "Bata" (English: "Kid"), is a Filipino professional pool player. Reyes is widely considered one of the greatest pool players of all time. A winner of over 100 int ...
(born 1954), Filipino pool player
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Zoran Mirković (born 1971), Serbian footballer
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Tomáš Baťa (1876–1932), Czech shoe company founder
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Jan Antonín Baťa (1898–1965), half-brother of the founder
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István Bata
István Bata (5 March 1910 – 17 August 1982) was a Hungarian military officer and politician who served as Minister of Defence from 1953 to 1956.
Biography
A factory worker, Bata joined the Social Democratic Party of Hungary in 1930. He ...
(1910–1982), Hungarian military officer and politician
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Thomas J. Bata
Tomáš Jan Baťa, (; anglicised to Thomas J. Bata; September 17, 1914 – September 1, 2008), also known as Thomas Bata Jr. and Tomáš Baťa ml., was a Czech-Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He ran the Bata Shoe Company from the 1940s ...
(1914–2008), son of the founder
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