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Pat Sajak
Pat Sajak (Patrick Leonard Sajdak, born 1946, Chicago) is the American television personality who hosted Wheel of Fortune from 1981 to 2024, 41 seasons and 8,000-plus episodes with Vanna White, succeeded by Ryan Seacrest.
PAT Scheme
The Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme is India's market-based program for cutting energy use in energy-intensive industries, run by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency.
Pat Scola
Pat Scola (Patrick Scola), American cinematographer from New York; shot Pig, Sing Sing, A Quiet Place: Day One, Lurker, and The Death of Robin Hood; ASC member, ASC Spotlight Award winner, upcoming X-Men film DP.
Pat Sharp
Pat Sharp, born Patrick Sharpin, is a British radio DJ and television presenter best known for hosting ITV's children's game show Fun House from 1989 to 1999.
Pat Sheehan (model)
Pat Sheehan, born Patricia Ann Sheehan (1931-2006), American model and actress, Miss San Francisco 1950, NBC contract player, and Playboy Playmate of the Month October 1958 with Mara Corday; married Dennis Crosby.
Pat Shurmur
Pat Shurmur (Patrick Carl Shurmur, born 1965 in Michigan) is an American football coach who led the Browns and Giants at 19–46, later serving the Broncos and Colorado.
Pat Smear
Pat Smear (Georg Ruthenberg, born 1959, Los Angeles) is an American rock guitarist who co-founded LA punk band the Germs, toured as Nirvana's second guitarist in 1993-94, and has been a Foo Fighters guitarist since 1995 across three stints.
Pat Spencer (basketball)
Pat Spencer (Patrick Andrew Spencer, born 1996) is an American NBA guard, formerly the 2019 Tewaaraton Award lacrosse star at Loyola Maryland and PLL first-overall pick, later with Golden State and Phoenix.
Pat Spurgin
Pat Spurgin, born Karen Patricia Spurgin (later Pitney) in 1965, is an American sport shooter who won the first Olympic gold medal in women's 10-meter air rifle in 1984.
Pat Stay
Pat Stay (Patrick Wayne Stay, born 1986) was a Canadian battle rapper from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, a King of the Dot champion also known as the Sucka-Free Boss; he died in a Halifax stabbing on September 4, 2022.
Pat Stefano
Pat Stefano is an American Republican politician and Pennsylvania state senator for the 32nd district, a former printing company owner seeking a fourth term in 2026.
Pat Summerall
Pat Summerall (George Allen Summerall, 1930–2013) was an American placekicker turned sportscaster who called NFL games for CBS and Fox for four decades, paired with John Madden from 1981 to 2002.
Pat Summitt
Pat Summitt (1952-2016), American basketball coach, led Tennessee's Lady Vols 38 seasons, 1,098-208, eight NCAA titles, first NCAA coach to 1,000 wins, Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Pat Tillman
Pat Tillman, NFL safety for the Arizona Cardinals (1998-2001) who enlisted in the Army after 9/11 and was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004, prompting seven investigations and the Pat Tillman Foundation.
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey (born 1961), American Republican politician and former investment banker, U.S. representative 1999-2005 and U.S. senator from Pennsylvania 2011-2023; 2017 tax law role, Manchin-Toomey background-check bill, 2020 break with Trump.
Pat Travers
Pat Travers (Patrick Henry Travers), Canadian blues-rock guitarist and singer born 1954 in Toronto; Polydor career from 1976, platinum 1979 live album Live! Go For What You Know, hits "Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights)" and "Snortin' Whiskey", still touring.
Pat Turner
Pat Turner (Patrick Turner, born 1961, Toronto) is a Canadian rower who won gold in the men's coxed eight at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Canada's first men's eight Olympic title, and Commonwealth gold in 1986.
Pat Venditte
Pat Venditte, American switch-pitching reliever, first full-time ambidextrous pitcher in modern MLB (debut 2015, A's); namesake of Rule 5.07(f) governing switch-pitchers versus switch-hitters.
Pat Weber
William Pez "Pat" Weber (1940–2024) was an American semiconductor executive who led Texas Instruments' chip business from 1986 to 1993 and briefly served as acting CEO in 1996.
Pat Woodell
Pat Woodell (Patricia Joy Woodell, 1944–2015), American actress and singer, original Bobbie Jo Bradley on CBS's Petticoat Junction (1963–1965), later star of 1970s exploitation films like The Big Doll House; distinct from other Woodells.
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man (also Patty Cake, Pattycake) is an English nursery rhyme and clapping game, first recorded in Thomas d'Urfey's play The Campaigners in 1698, among the oldest surviving English nursery rhymes.
Pat's King of Steaks
Pat's King of Steaks, also known as Pat's Steaks, is a South Philadelphia cheesesteak stand founded by Pat Olivieri in 1930 and credited with inventing the cheesesteak.
Pataakha (पताखा)
Pataakha (पताखा), also Patakha, is Vishal Bhardwaj's 2018 Hindi comedy-drama adapted from Charan Singh Pathik's Do Behnein, starring Radhika Madan and Sanya Malhotra as feuding Rajasthani sisters, an India-Pakistan allegory that flopped commercially.
Pataas (పటాస్)
Pataas (పటాస్) is a 2015 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film directed by Anil Ravipudi in his debut, starring Nandamuri Kalyan Ram as a corrupt police officer who reforms in Hyderabad.
Paṭācārā
Paṭācārā (पटाचारा) was an elder nun of early Indian Buddhism, named by the Buddha foremost among nuns who bear the Discipline in mind, and famed for her story of loss and recovery.
Patachitra
Patachitra (পটচিত্র) is a cloth-based scroll and icon painting tradition of eastern India, covering the temple-centered Odisha school and the sung narrative scrolls of Bengal's Patua painters.
Patachitra of Odisha
Patachitra of Odisha (Odia: ପଟ୍ଟଚିତ୍ର) is a traditional cloth and palm-leaf painting of Jagannath, Krishna Leela, and the Hindu epics, tied to Puri's Jagannath Temple and centered on Raghurajpur.
Patachou
Patachou, born Henriette Ragon (1918–2015), was a French singer, actress, and cabaret owner whose Montmartre club Chez Patachou launched Georges Brassens in 1952 and carried her to Broadway.
Patagioenas
Patagioenas is a genus of about 17 New World pigeon species (Columbidae), split from Columba on DNA evidence; includes the band-tailed pigeon, largest North American pigeon and closest living relative of the extinct passenger pigeon.
Patagona
Patagona is a genus of hummingbirds containing the two largest living hummingbird species, the Northern and Southern Giant Hummingbirds, restricted to the Andes of South America and split into two species in 2024.