All articles starting with P

Pat Dugan

Pat Dugan, alias Stripesy and later S.T.R.I.P.E., is a DC Comics hero created by Jerry Siegel and Hal Sherman, debuting in Action Comics #40 (1941) as the adult sidekick of the Star-Spangled Kid and stepfather of Stargirl.

Pat Eddery

Pat Eddery (1952–2015), Irish flat jockey and trainer; 4,632 British winners, second only to Gordon Richards; 11-time British champion jockey; three Derbys, four Arcs, Dancing Brave 1986.

Pat Fahy

Pat Fahy is an American Democratic politician representing New York's 46th State Senate district, first elected to the Senate in 2024 after serving in the Assembly since 2012.

Pat Fallon

Pat Fallon (born 1967) is the Republican U.S. Representative for Texas's 4th congressional district since 2021, chairman of the Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee, former Texas state senator, Air Force veteran, and 2016 World Marathon Challenge finisher.

Pat Fitzgerald

Pat Fitzgerald, American college football coach; Northwestern head coach 2006-22 (110-101, winningest in school history), fired 2023 in hazing scandal, settled lawsuit 2025, named Michigan State head coach December 1, 2025.

Pat Flanagan

Pat Flanagan (Patrick Flanagan) was an American tug-of-war athlete who won 1904 Olympic gold with the Milwaukee Athletic Club team, actually Chicago athletes; almost nothing else about him is known.

Pat Flowers (Montana politician)

Pat Flowers is an American Democratic politician who has led the minority in the Montana Senate since 2023, after serving as Minority Whip and representing Belgrade since his 2018 election.

Pat Flynn (musician)

Pat Flynn (Patrick Flynn) is the American hardcore vocalist who fronted Have Heart (2002–2009) and post-hardcore band Fiddlehead, and teaches high school history; distinct from the bluegrass guitarist Pat Flynn of New Grass Revival.

Pat Forbes

Pat Forbes is an American engineer and Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in Louisiana's 6th Congressional District in 2026, with two decades in state government.

Pat Garrett

Pat Garrett (Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett, 1850-1908), American Old West lawman and sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, who killed Billy the Kid at Fort Sumner on July 14, 1881, coauthored The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid (1882), later served as Doña Ana County sheriff and El Paso customs collector, and was shot dead in 1908.

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (album)

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid is Bob Dylan's July 13, 1973 Columbia soundtrack album for Sam Peckinpah's western, his first film score, mostly instrumentals with "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" and the Billy ballads.

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is Sam Peckinpah's 1973 MGM Western starring James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, and Bob Dylan, who wrote "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"; it exists in multiple cuts after MGM reedited Peckinpah's 121-minute version to 106 minutes.

Pat Gelsinger

Pat Gelsinger, also known as Patrick Paul Gelsinger, is an American technology executive and electrical engineer who was CEO of Intel from 2021 to 2024, previously leading VMware.

Sep 19, 2026

Pat Grady

Pat Grady is an American venture capitalist and partner at Sequoia Capital who co-led growth-stage investing from 2015 and became the firm's co-steward with Alfred Lin in November 2025.

Pat Grassley

Pat Grassley is an American Republican politician and farmer serving as Speaker of the Iowa House of Representatives, first elected to the House in 2006 and elected Speaker in 2019.

Sep 19, 2026

Pat Hanrahan

Pat Hanrahan, born 1955, is an American computer scientist at Stanford who was chief architect of Pixar's RenderMan, co-founded Tableau, and won the 2019 Turing Award.

Pat Harrigan

Pat Harrigan (Patrick Luke Harrigan) is an American politician, businessman, and former Army Green Beret who has represented North Carolina's 10th Congressional District as a Republican since 2025.

Pat Harrington Jr.

Pat Harrington Jr. (Daniel Patrick Harrington Jr., 1929–2016), American actor and comedian, played superintendent Dwayne Schneider on One Day at a Time (1975–84), winning a 1984 Emmy and 1981 Golden Globe; earlier created Guido Panzini and voiced the Pink Panther's Inspector.

Pat Hingle

Pat Hingle (Martin Patterson Hingle, 1924-2009), American character actor of stage, film, and TV; appeared in four Pulitzer-winning plays, lost Elmer Gantry to an elevator-shaft fall, and played Commissioner Gordon in four Batman films.

Pat Hitchcock

Pat Hitchcock (Patricia Alma Hitchcock O'Connell, 1928-2021), only child of Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville; actress in Stage Fright, Strangers on a Train, Psycho, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents; later guardian of the family legacy.

Oct 10, 2026

Pat Holmes Sterbenz

Pat Holmes Sterbenz (born 1927) is an American mathematician whose 1974 Prentice-Hall book Floating-Point Computation first published Sterbenz's lemma, a key exactness result in floating-point arithmetic.

Pat Jehlen

Pat Jehlen is an American Democratic politician, a Massachusetts state senator for the Second Middlesex district since 2005 who previously served in the House from 1991 to 2005.

Pat Jennings

Pat Jennings, born 1945 in Newry, is a Northern Irish former goalkeeper who played for Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal and earned a then Northern Ireland record of 119 caps.

Pat Jones

Pat Jones (Patricia Ann Jones, born 1942, Croydon) is the British 80m hurdler of Birchfield Harriers who won seven WAAA hurdles titles, set a 27.9 world record for 200m hurdles in 1964, and ran at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics; distinct from Canadian sprinter Pat Jones.

Pat LaFontaine

Pat LaFontaine, born 1965, American NHL center for the Islanders, Sabres, and Rangers; 468 goals, 1,013 points in 865 games; Hockey Hall of Fame 2003; retired 1998 after concussions.

Pat Lowe-Cropper

Patricia Lowe (Pat Lowe-Cropper), born 1943 in Leicester, British 800m runner for Birchfield Harriers; sixth at the 1968 Olympics, 1971 European 800m silver, 1969 European 4x400m relay gold, and four relay world records.

Pat Mahomes

Pat Mahomes (Patrick Lavon Mahomes, born 1970) is a former MLB relief pitcher (1992-2003; Twins, Red Sox, Mets, Rangers, Cubs, Pirates; 42-39, 5.47 ERA) and father of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes II.

Pat Martin

Pat Martin (Patrick Henry Martin, 1923–1987), American bobsledder of the Lake Placid Sno-Birds; first American with three Winter Olympic medals: 1948 four-man gold, 1952 two-man and four-man silver.

Oct 20, 2026

Pat Matzdorf

Pat Matzdorf (Patrick Clifford Matzdorf, born 1949), American high jumper from Sheboygan, Wisconsin; set a 2.29 m (7'6¼") world record with the straddle at Berkeley on 3 July 1971, breaking Valeriy Brumel's 2.28 m; record stood until Dwight Stones in 1973.