| Birth Date: | 29 August 1923 |
| Birth Place: | Walden, Georgia, U.S. |
| Party: | Republican |
| State Senate: | Georgia |
| Office2: | Minority Leader of the Georgia Senate |
| Term Start: | January 11, 1965 |
| Term End: | January 8, 1973 |
| Termstart2: | 1968 |
| Termend2: | 1973 |
| Successor2: | William Armstrong Smith |
| Death Place: | Macon, Georgia, U.S. |
| District: | 27th |
| Successor: | George N. Skene |
Oliver Cromwell Bateman (August 29, 1923 – September 14, 2012) was an American legislator who served in the Georgia State Senate from 1965 until 1973 and was minority leader from 1968 to 1973.[1] He was born in Walden, Georgia. He was a graduate of The Citadel in 1948 and Harvard Business School in 1950. Bateman passed away in Macon, Georgia.[2] He was a delegate to the 1968 Republican National Convention.