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Spate is a surname, and may refer to:
- Clive Spate (born 1952), British game show contestant
- Oskar Spate (1911–2000), geographer
- Virginia Spate (1937–2022), Australian art historian
- Ute Späte (born 1961), German chess master
Spate may also refer to a flood.