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Patricia Rhomberg
Patricia Rhomberg (born 1953, Vienna) is a retired Austrian adult film actress active in West Germany in the mid-late 1970s, best known for the title role in Josefine Mutzenbacher – Wie sie wirklich war, 1. Teil (1976), released in the US as Sensational Janine.
Patricia Richardson
Patricia Richardson (Patricia Castle Richardson), American actress born 1951 in Bethesda, Maryland; Jill Taylor on ABC's Home Improvement (1991–99), four Emmy nominations, Ulee's Gold, Strong Medicine, The West Wing.
Patricia Roberts Harris
Patricia Roberts Harris (1924–1985), American lawyer, diplomat, and cabinet secretary; first Black woman U.S. ambassador (Luxembourg 1965), Howard Law dean (1969), Fortune 500 director (1971), and Carter's HUD Secretary (1977–1979) and HEW/HHS Secretary (1979–1981).
Patricia Routledge
Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge (1929-2025), English actress and singer, best known as Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances (1990-95), Tony winner for Darling of the Day (1968), Olivier winner for Candide (1988), and lead of Hetty Wainthropp Investigates.
Patricia S. Goldman‐Rakic
Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic (1937–2003) was an American cognitive neuroscientist who, working with rhesus monkeys at Yale from 1979, established the cellular basis of working memory in the prefrontal cortex.
Patricia S. Steeg
Patricia S. Steeg is an American cancer molecular biologist who discovered nm23, the first metastasis suppressor gene, and spent over forty years at the National Institutes of Health.
Patricia Scotland
Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, is a Dominican-born British barrister and Labour peer who was the 6th Commonwealth Secretary-General (2016–2025), the first woman in the post, after serving as the first female UK Attorney General.
Patricia Selinger
Patricia Selinger is an American computer scientist who invented cost-based query optimization while leading IBM's System R team, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.
Patricia Soltysik
Patricia Michelle Soltysik, nicknamed "Mizmoon" (SLA name "Zoya"), was a co-founder of the Symbionese Liberation Army in Berkeley in 1973, took part in the Marcus Foster killing, was charged in the 1974 Hibernia Bank robbery, and died in the May 1974 LAPD Compton shootout.
Patricia Southall
Patricia Southall (Pat Smith), born 1970 in Chesapeake, Virginia, is a philanthropist, minister, and author who was Miss Virginia USA 1993 and first runner-up at Miss USA 1994, later founding Treasure You and co-founding Pat & Emmitt Smith Charities.
Patricia Stallings
Patricia Stallings, Missouri woman wrongfully convicted in 1991 of murdering her son Ryan by antifreeze poisoning; GC-FID misread propionic acid, a methylmalonic acidemia (MMA) metabolite, as ethylene glycol; exonerated September 20, 1991.
Patricia T. Giles
Patricia T. Giles, also known as Patricia Tolliver Giles, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the Eastern District of Virginia since 2021.
Patricia Tallman
Patricia Tallman (Pat Tallman), born 1957, American actress and stunt performer: Barbara in Night of the Living Dead (1990), Lyta Alexander on Babylon 5, and stunt double for Laura Dern, Gates McFadden, and Nana Visitor.
Patricia Taylor
Patricia Taylor names several figures: Dr. Patricia E. Taylor (1929-2024), Canadian bacteriologist and wife of ambassador Kenneth Taylor; a New York Blood Center hepatitis B researcher; and Patricia A. Taylor, a University of Minnesota immunology researcher.
Patricia Todd
Patricia Todd (born 1955), Alabama Democratic politician, state representative for Birmingham House District 54 from 2006 to 2018 and Alabama's first openly gay elected official; later ADP vice chair (2022) and One Orlando Alliance director.
Patricia Velásquez
Patricia Velásquez (Patricia Carola Velasquez Semprun, born 1971) is a Venezuelan actress and model, described as the first Latina supermodel, who played Anck-Su-Namun in The Mummy films and founded the Wayuu Taya Foundation in 2002.
Patricia Wettig
Patricia Wettig (born 1951, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American actress and playwright who won three Emmys and a Golden Globe as Nancy Weston on Thirtysomething, later starring in Prison Break and Brothers & Sisters, married to Ken Olin.
Patricia Wrede
Patricia Collins Wrede (born 1953, Chicago) is an American fantasy author of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, the Lyra novels, and the Cecelia and Kate books with Caroline Stevermer; a founding Scribbly and worldbuilding-advice writer.
Patricia Zambryski
Patricia C. Zambryski is a plant and microbial biologist, Professor Emerita at UC Berkeley, a pioneer of plant genetic engineering through her work on Agrobacterium DNA transfer.
Patrician (ancient Rome)
A patrician (Latin patricii) was a member of the hereditary aristocratic order of ancient Rome, one of two orders into which the free population was divided, the other being the plebeians.
Patricide
Patricide is the killing of one's father, a form of parricide (also matricide). Rare, about 4-5% of homicides; offenders mostly adult sons, often with psychosis, personality disorder, or abuse histories.
Patricio Aylwin
Patricio Aylwin Azócar (1918–2016), Chilean Christian Democratic lawyer and politician, first post-dictatorship president of Chile 1990–1994, Concertación candidate, creator of the Rettig truth commission.
Patricio Montojo y Pasarón
Patricio Montojo y Pasarón, Spanish rear admiral commanding Philippine naval forces in 1898, led the Spanish squadron destroyed by Dewey at Manila Bay on 1 May 1898, after his Subic Bay defense plan failed.
Patrício Pitbull
Patrício Pitbull (Patricio Freire, born 1987) is a Brazilian featherweight MMA fighter, four-time Bellator champion at 145 and 155 lb, Bellator's all-time leader in wins and finishes, now competing in the UFC.
Patrick A. Baeuerle
Patrick A. Baeuerle is a German immunologist and cancer-drug developer known for discovering the NF-κB inhibitor IκB and for developing blinatumomab (Blincyto), the first bispecific T-cell engager approved for leukemia, in 2014.
Patrick A. Conmy
Patrick A. Conmy, born 1934, is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge for the District of North Dakota from 1985 until 2000.
Patrick A. Lee
Patrick A. Lee, also known as Patrick Lee, is an American condensed matter theorist, MIT professor since 1982, and pioneer of mesoscopic physics and high-temperature superconductivity theory.
Patrick A. Ott
Patrick A. Ott, also known as Patrick Alexander Ott, is a medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School who develops personalized neoantigen vaccines for melanoma.
Patrick A. Riley
Patrick A. Riley, also published as P. A. Riley, is a cell pathologist and Emeritus Professor of Cell Pathology at University College London, known for research on melanocytes and melanoma therapy.
Patrick A. Zollner
Patrick A. Zollner is an American quantitative wildlife ecologist and Professor at Purdue University. He is known for his research on animal movement in fragmented landscapes and wildlife conflict.