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Patrick Jane
Patrick Jane is the fictional lead of CBS's The Mentalist (2008–2015), played by Simon Baker: a former fake TV psychic who, after Red John murdered his wife and daughter, became a California Bureau of Investigation consultant using observation and mentalism.
Patrick John
Patrick Roland John, Dominican politician and trade unionist, first Prime Minister of Dominica (July 1978 to June 1979) who led the island to independence on 3 November 1978, fell after the 29 May 1979 riot, and was imprisoned for a 1981 coup attempt before being pardoned; died 6 July 2021.
Patrick Johnston (medical oncologist)
Patrick Gerard Johnston, known as Paddy, was a Northern Irish medical oncologist who researched chemotherapy drug resistance in gastrointestinal cancer and led Queen's University Belfast from 2014 until his death in 2017.
Patrick Joyce (Illinois politician)
Patrick Joyce is an American Democratic politician representing the 40th district in the Illinois Senate, a fourth-generation farmer and business owner focused on health care, the environment, and education.
Patrick Kane
Patrick Kane, born 1988 in Buffalo, is an American NHL right wing, 2007 No. 1 pick, three-time Stanley Cup champion with Chicago, and the all-time leading U.S.-born scorer with 1,400 points, now back with the Blackhawks.
Patrick Kavanagh
Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967), Irish poet and novelist from Inniskeen, County Monaghan, author of The Great Hunger, Tarry Flynn, and On Raglan Road; major Irish poet after Yeats.
Patrick Kearney
Patrick Wayne Kearney, known as the Trash Bag Killer, is an American serial killer who murdered young men and boys across Southern California until 1977.
Patrick Kennedy (actor)
Patrick Kennedy (born 1977, London) is an English actor, director, and writer, an Oxford and LAMDA graduate. Known for Bleak House's Richard Carstone, Atonement, War Horse, Boardwalk Empire, The Queen's Gambit, and Blue Moon (2025); distinct from the American politician Patrick J. Kennedy.
Patrick Kennedy (farmer)
Patrick Kennedy (farmer) was an Irish cooper who emigrated from County Wexford in 1848. He died in Boston in 1858, the paternal great-grandfather of John F. Kennedy.
Patrick Kielty
Patrick Kielty (born 1971, Dundrum, County Down) is a Northern Irish comedian and presenter who has hosted RTÉ's The Late Late Show since September 2023 as its fourth permanent presenter, with a contract extended in 2026 to 2028.
Patrick Kilpatrick
Patrick Kilpatrick (born 1949 in Orange, Virginia) is an American character actor, producer, and director known for playing villains opposite action stars in films like Death Warrant and Minority Report.
Patrick Kline
Patrick Kline is an American labor economist at UC Berkeley known for research on wage inequality, monopsony, and place-based policies like the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Patrick Kluivert
Patrick Stephan Kluivert is a Dutch former footballer and coach, a center forward who scored the only goal of the 1995 Champions League final at age 18.
Patrick Kwan
Patrick Kwan is an Australian neurologist and epileptologist, Professor of Neurology at Monash University in Melbourne, who chaired the International League Against Epilepsy task force that produced the first consensus definition of drug-resistant epilepsy in 2010.
Patrick L. Holland
Patrick L. Holland is an American inorganic chemist, the Conkey P. Whitehead Professor at Yale University, known for iron compounds that convert atmospheric nitrogen into nitrides and ammonia.
Patrick Labyorteaux
Patrick Labyorteaux (born 1965, Los Angeles) is an American actor, writer, and producer, sometimes credited Patrick Laborteaux, known for Andy Garvey on Little House on the Prairie and Bud Roberts on JAG, and co-founder of the Youth Rescue Fund.
Patrick Laidlaw
Sir Patrick Playfair Laidlaw, known as Patrick Laidlaw, was a British virologist at the National Institute for Medical Research who led the 1933 first isolation of human influenza virus.
Patrick Leahy
Patrick Joseph Leahy (born 1940) is a retired American Democratic senator from Vermont, serving 1975-2023, the first Democrat in the state's Senate history, two-time president pro tempore, and third-longest-serving senator.
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011), 'Paddy', British travel writer and SOE officer; walked to Constantinople 1933-35, kidnapped General Kreipe in Crete 1944, wrote A Time of Gifts, Mani, Roumeli, and lived at Kardamyli.
Patrick Lemaire
Patrick Lemaire is a French developmental biologist and CNRS Research Director at the CRBM in Montpellier who studies ascidian embryogenesis, known for cloning the Xenopus organizer gene Siamois in 1995.
Patrick Leonard
Patrick Leonard (born 1956), also Pat Leonard, is an American songwriter, keyboardist, and producer, Madonna's main late-1980s co-writer (Like a Prayer, Live to Tell) and Leonard Cohen's final-album collaborator.
Patrick Little (neo-Nazi)
Patrick Little is an American neo-Nazi activist and former Marine sergeant who ran as a Republican for the 2018 California US Senate seat against Dianne Feinstein, polled second at 18 percent, was expelled from the California GOP convention, finished 12th, and later ran for office in Idaho and for president in 2020.
Patrick Lucey
Patrick Joseph Lucey (1918–2014) was a Wisconsin Democrat, its 38th governor 1971–1977, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico 1977–1979 under Carter, and John Anderson's independent 1980 vice-presidential running mate.
Patrick Luwis
Patrick Luwis (born 1994) is an American actor from the Washington, D.C. area, known as Axel Kovačević in Cobra Kai and for roles in Barbie, Rebel Moon, The Dropout, Stick, and The Beauty.
Patrick Lynch (Canadian investor)
Patrick Lynch (born 1978) is a Canadian private-markets investor and co-founder and CEO of Featherlight Capital, after leading private equity at Fiera Comox and funds roles at Mubadala and CDPQ.
Patrick M. Bossuyt
Patrick M. Bossuyt (Patrick M. M. Bossuyt) is a clinical epidemiologist and professor at Amsterdam UMC who led the STARD reporting guideline for diagnostic accuracy studies.
Patrick M. Byrne
Patrick M. Byrne is an American entrepreneur who founded Overstock.com and led it for two decades before resigning as CEO in August 2019.
Patrick M. Carter
Patrick Michael Carter is an American emergency physician and injury-prevention researcher who is a University of Michigan professor and co-director of its Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention.
Patrick M. Forde
Patrick M. Forde is an Irish medical oncologist who led the 2018 first study of immunotherapy before lung cancer surgery and the CheckMate 816 trial, and chairs immuno-oncology at Trinity College Dublin.
Patrick M. Sexton
Patrick M. Sexton is a pharmacologist and Professor at Monash University's Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences who studies G protein-coupled receptors and co-founded Septerna and DACRA Tx.