List of Famous people named Pat

Charles Patrick Roberts is an American politician of the Republican Party who served as United States Senator of Kansas from 1997 to 2021. Prior to this, Roberts served 8 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 1997.

Pat Sheehan is an Irish Sinn Féin politician, and former Provisional Irish Republican Army hunger striker at the Maze Prison.

Pat Cadigan is an American science fiction author, whose work is most often identified with the cyberpunk movement. Her novels and short stories all share a common theme of exploring the relationship between the human mind and technology.

Patrick Joseph Buchanan is an American paleoconservative political commentator, columnist, politician and broadcaster. Buchanan was an assistant and special consultant to U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, and was an original host on CNN's Crossfire. He sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996. In 2000, he was the Reform Party's presidential nominee. His campaign centered on non-interventionism, illegal immigration, and opposition to free trade, and he selected educator and conservative activist Ezola Foster as his running-mate.

Patrick Cox is a former Irish Fine Gael politician, journalist and television current affairs presenter who served as President of the European Parliament from 2002 to 2004 and Leader of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Group from 1998 to 2002. He served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Munster constituency from 1989 to 2004 and a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-Central from 1992 to 1994.

Patricia Joan Keller McCormick is a retired American diver who won both diving events at two consecutive Summer Olympics, in 1952 and 1956. She won the James E. Sullivan Award for best amateur athlete in the US in 1956 – the second woman to do so.

Patrice Ann "Pat" Murphy is an American science writer and author of science fiction and fantasy novels.

Patrick Bosco McFadden is a British politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Wolverhampton South East since 2005. A member of the Labour Party, he was briefly Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in 2010 and Shadow Minister for Europe from 2014 to 2016 under Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn.

Patrick Joseph Quinn Jr. is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 41st Governor of Illinois, from 2009 to 2015. A Democrat, Quinn began his career as an activist by founding the Coalition for Political Honesty.

Pat O'Connor was an American racecar driver. He was killed in a 15-car pileup, after sustaining a fatal head injury after rolling his car and catching fire on the first lap of the 1958 Indianapolis 500.