Anne Dunkin Greene Bates (c. 1885 – November 2, 1939) was an American socialite during the Gilded Age.^[1]

Anne Dunkin Greene was born in New York City in c. 1885, a daughter of Elizabeth Dunkin (née Hoff) Greene (1852–1926) and Thomas Lyman Greene (1851–1904).^[2] Her father was vice president and general manager of the Audit Company of New York and formerly with the Manhattan Trust Company.^[3] Her older brother was Van Rensselaer Hoff Greene,^[4][5] a 1904 graduate of Columbia University,^[6][7][8] who married Agnes Benedict.^[9]

Her maternal grandparents were Ann Eliza (née Van Rensselaer) Hoff and Dr. Alexander Henry Hoff of Philadelphia.^[10] Her grandmother was a sister of Charles Watkins Van Rensselaer and both were children of Ann (née Dunkin) and Judge John Sanders Van Rensselaer and grandchildren of U.S. Representative Killian Van Rensselaer.^[11] Her paternal grandfather was Mary Ann (née Crocker) Greene, who attended the Troy Female Seminary,^[12] and Thomas Lyman Greene Sr., a manager of the Boston and Albany Railroad.^[3]

Anne graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1905.^[10]

In 1892, Anne, listed as "Miss Greene",^{[lower-alpha 1][1]} was included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times.^[13] Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom.^[14][15]

In 1908,^[16] Greene was married to Guy Bates (1880–1965) of Morristown and Summit, New Jersey.^[17] Bates was a 1906 graduate of Columbia University.^[18] Together, they were the parents of:

• Elizabeth Maunsell Bates (1913–2011),^[19] who married attorney Alan W. Carrick, the son of Judge Charles Lynn Carrick, in 1939.^[20][21]

Anne Dunkin Greene Bates died on November 2, 1939.^[1] She was buried at Arlington National Cemetery and upon her husband's death in 1965, he was buried alongside her.^{[citation needed]}