List of Famous people with last name Patten

David Patten was an American football wide receiver. He was signed by the Albany Firebirds as a street free agent in 1996. Starting in 1997, he played in the National Football League (NFL) and competed for 12 seasons through 2008. He played college football at Western Carolina.

Mary Ann Brown Patten was the first female commander of an American merchant vessel. She was the wife of Joshua Patten, captain of the merchant clipper ship Neptune’s Car. The ship was bound around Cape Horn from New York towards San Francisco when Joshua Patten collapsed from fatigue in 1856. His wife took command for 56 days, faced down a mutiny, and successfully managed to navigate the clipper ship into San Francisco. At the time she was 19 years old and pregnant with her first child.

Grace Van Patten is an American actress. She has appeared in two films distributed by Netflix: Tramps (2016) and The Meyerowitz Stories (2017). She is the daughter of director Timothy Van Patten and niece of actor Dick Van Patten.

Richard Vincent Van Patten was an American actor, comedian, businessman, and animal welfare advocate, whose career spanned seven decades of television. He was best known for his role as patriarch Tom Bradford on the ABC television comedy-drama Eight Is Enough.

Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, is a British politician who was the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997 and Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1992. He was made a life peer in 2005 and has been Chancellor of the University of Oxford since 2003.

Vincent Van Patten is an American actor, former professional tennis player, and the commentator for the World Poker Tour.

Joyce Benignia Van Patten is an American actress. One of her most notable roles is that of the selfish and domineering mother of Jason Beghe's character in the horror movie Monkey Shines (1988).

Timothy Van Patten is an American television director, actor, screenwriter, and producer. He has directed episodes of Perry Mason, Boardwalk Empire, Black Mirror, Deadwood, Ed, Game of Thrones, The Pacific, Rome, Sex and the City, The Sopranos, and The Wire.