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There are two famous art galleries in London: the Tate and Tate Modern (there are also Tate St.Ives and Tate Liverpool). Named after the founder Sir Henry Tate.

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Tater Tot; Taters; Tater Bug; Tater Pie,
Sweet Tater, Spud

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Tate is English and means Cheerful.

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Actor Tate Donovan.

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Last name of the family in "Little Man Tate" - a movie starring Jodie Foster about a mother trying to raise her genius son Fred in a "normal" world.
In "Sex and the City", Tate is the name of the son Aidan Shaw fathers with his new wife Kathy, not long after he and Carrie Bradshaw break up because of her reluctance to marry him.
Tate Langdon, character on the fx tv show "American Horror Story".