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Patrick Duffy
Patrick Duffy (born 1949, Townsend, Montana) is the American actor who played Bobby Ewing on Dallas (1978-1991), Mark Harris on Man from Atlantis, and Frank Lambert on Step by Step; also known for the 1986 dream-scene return and directing Dallas episodes.
Patrick Dumont
Patrick Dumont is an American business executive who became chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands in March 2026 and serves as governor of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks.
Patrick E. Higginbotham
Patrick E. Higginbotham, born 1938, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit since 2006.
Patrick Emery
Patrick Emery is a chronobiologist and professor of neurobiology at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, known for discovering cryptochrome's role in circadian rhythms.
Patrick Eugene Prendergast
Patrick Eugene Prendergast, Irish immigrant news vendor, assassinated Chicago mayor Carter Harrison Sr. on October 28, 1893 over a denied Corporation Counsel appointment; convicted, insanity defense failed, hanged July 13, 1894.
Patrick Ewing
Patrick Ewing, born 1962 in Kingston, Jamaica, is a Hall of Fame center and Georgetown star who was the Knicks' first pick in the 1985 draft lottery, scored 24,815 NBA points, won 1984 and 1992 Olympic gold, and later coached Georgetown 2017-2023.
Patrick Ewing Jr.
Patrick Aloysius Ewing Jr. (born 1984) is an American basketball coach and former professional player, the eldest son of Hall of Fame center Patrick Ewing.
Patrick F. Chinnery
Patrick F. Chinnery is a British neurologist and neurogeneticist at Cambridge known for work on mitochondrial DNA disorders, and Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council.
Patrick F. Flynn
Patrick F. Flynn is an American mechanical engineer, retired vice president for research at Cummins Engine Company, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Patrick F. Sullivan
Patrick F. Sullivan, also known as Patrick Sullivan, is a psychiatric geneticist at UNC Chapel Hill and Karolinska Institutet who founded the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium.
Patrick Fabian
Patrick Fabian (born 1964, Pittsburgh) is the American actor known as Howard Hamlin on Better Call Saul (2015–2022) and Cotton Marcus in The Last Exorcism; distinct from a German actor and a football executive of the same name.
Patrick Ferguson
Patrick Ferguson (1744-1780), Scottish British Army officer, inventor of the Ferguson breech-loading rifle patented 1776, and Loyalist commander killed by Overmountain Men at Kings Mountain, 7 October 1780.
Patrick Fischler
Patrick Fischler (born 1969) is an American character actor known as Jimmy Barrett on Mad Men, Phil on Lost, and Dan in Mulholland Drive's Winkie's diner scene, with 140-plus film and TV credits.
Patrick Fitzgerald
Patrick J. Fitzgerald, American attorney, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois 2001-2012 (distinct from the football coach of the same name), special counsel in the Valerie Plame leak case who convicted Scooter Libby and Governors Ryan and Blagojevich.
Patrick Flueger
Patrick John Flueger (born 1983, Red Wing, Minnesota) is an American actor known for Shawn Farrell on The 4400 and Officer Adam Ruzek on NBC's Chicago P.D. since 2014, with film roles in The Princess Diaries, The World's Fastest Indian, and Footloose.
Patrick Forterre
Patrick Forterre is a French biochemist and microbiologist, a professor at the Institut Pasteur since 2014, known for his work on Archaea and DNA topoisomerases.
Patrick Franklin Andrews
Patrick Franklin Andrews is an American federal inmate serving a life sentence for the 2007 stabbing murder of fellow inmate Jesse Harris at USP Hazelton, West Virginia, committed with Kevin Bellinger while Andrews was already serving 35 years to life for two earlier murders; distinct from California death-row inmate Jesse James Andrews.
Patrick Frayne
Patrick Frayne is a Senior Portfolio Manager and Partner at Elliott Management, where he helps oversee performing credit strategies, structured credit, and interest rate and currency trading.
Patrick Fugit
Patrick Fugit (born 1982) is an American actor from Salt Lake City, Utah, best known for his breakout role as teenage rock journalist William Miller in Almost Famous (2000).
Patrick G. Enright
Patrick G. Enright is an American healthcare venture capitalist who co-founded Longitude Capital in 2006, serving as Managing Director and board member at Jazz Pharmaceuticals and Vera Therapeutics.
Patrick G. Halpin
Patrick G. Halpin is an American politician and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in New York's 2nd congressional district in 2026, having won the primary on June 23.
Patrick G. Hatcher
Patrick G. Hatcher (P.G. Hatcher) is an American organic geochemist, Batten Endowed Chair at Old Dominion University since 2006, known for his 1983 Nature paper on petroleum-forming kerogen.
Patrick G. Hogan
Patrick Hogan is an American molecular biologist at La Jolla Institute for Immunology who discovered the transcription factor NFAT and helped define store-operated calcium entry in T cells.
Patrick G. Holt
Patrick G. Holt, born 1945, is an Australian immunologist at The Kids Research Institute Australia in Perth, known for work on early-life origins of allergy and asthma.
Patrick G. O’Connor
Patrick G. O'Connor is an American physician-scientist at Yale School of Medicine who led the first randomized trial of buprenorphine for opioid dependence in primary care.
Patrick Gallagher (actor)
Patrick Gallagher (born 1968, New Westminster, BC) is a Canadian actor known as Attila the Hun in the Night at the Museum films, Coach Ken Tanaka in Glee, Sideways' Gary the Bartender, and the voice of Khotun Khan in Ghost of Tsushima. Distinct from the Brooklyn-born Patrick F. Gallagher and Atlanta and Australian namesakes.
Patrick Gallivan
Patrick Gallivan is an American Republican politician serving in the New York State Senate, first elected in 2010 after serving as Sheriff of Erie County.
Patrick Gill (British physicist)
Patrick Gill is a British physicist and NPL Fellow at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, known for optical atomic clocks that underpin a future redefinition of the SI second.
Patrick Gillespie (Texas politician)
Patrick Gillespie is an American politician and the 2026 Republican nominee for the US House in Texas's 33rd District, winning the May 2026 primary runoff.
Patrick Gordon
Patrick Gordon (Патрик Гордон; 1635–1699) was a Scottish-born general in Russian service from 1661 who became a chief mentor of Peter I and captured Azov.