Elizabeth Yates (née Brunton; 21 January 1799 – 30 August 1860) was an English actress. She appeared on the stage under the names Miss Brunton, Elizabeth Brunton, Elizabeth Yates, Mrs. Yates, and Mrs. Yates late Miss Brunton.

Elizabeth Brunton was born at Norwich on 21 January 1799 to a theatrical family. Her grandfather, John Brunton, acted at Covent Garden Theatre in 1774 and was later a theatre manager; her father, also John Brunton (1775–1849), went on the stage in 1795, and later appeared at Covent Garden in 1800 as Frederick in Louisa's Vows. He also managed theatres, including those in Brighton, Birmingham, Exeter and King's Lynn. Her mother was the actress Anna Ross, sister to Fanny Robertson, and Yates had at least three siblings. Elizabeth's aunt, Anne Brunton, was an actress who also appeared at Covent Garden. Another aunt, Louisa Brunton, also an actress, later married Major-General William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven.

Brunton married Frederick Henry Yates, a fellow actor with whom she had worked at Drury Lane, on 30 November 1823. A son Edmond Hodgson Yates (1831-1894) was born on 3 July 1831 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Elizabeth Brunton made her theatrical debut in 1815, in her father's theatre at Lynn, playing Desdemona opposite Charles Kemble as Othello. Her father thought her talents more suited to comedy, and she therefore next played Letitia Hardy in the Belle's Stratagem, opposite Robert William Elliston as Doricourt. Elliston hired Brunton for his theatre at Birmingham; she also played in Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Leicester.

Brunton made her London debut at Covent Garden in 1817 in the role of Letitia Hardy; she also played Rosalind in As You Like It. The Theatrical Inquisitor gave some praise to her Letitia, but pronounced her Rosalind a failure. Her first season included roles as Miss Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer, Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing, Viola in Twelfth Night, Imogen, Cora in Pizarro, Lady Elizabeth Freelove in the Day after the Wedding, and Myrtillo in the Broken Sword. She played the original Rosalia in Frederick Reynolds's Duke of Savoy.

In the 1818–1819 season, Brunton reprised her role as Letitia Hardy, in Edinburgh and, at Covent Garden, played Lady Teazle, Fanny in The Clandestine Marriage, Widow Bellmour in The Way to Keep Him, Lydia Languish, Rosara in She Would and She Would Not, Miss Tittup in Bon Ton, and Miss Wooburn in Every one has his Fault. She had an original part in A Word for the Ladies, and was the first Jeanie Deans in Daniel Terry's adaptation of Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian.

In her final season at Covent Garden (engagements at the patent theatres generally lasted three years), Brunton played Miss Prue in Love for Love, Sophia in The Road to Ruin, Dorinda in Dryden's Tempest, Elvira in Love Makes a Man, and was the first Clotilde de Biron in Thomas Morton's Henri Quatre.

Following her departure from London, Brunton joined her father at the West London Theatre in Tottenham Street, where she played in Rochester, Three Weeks After Marriage, She Stoops to Conquer, and other pieces.