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Pat is a common first name, mostly a shortened version of either Patricia
Patricia
Patricia, in English , is a common female given name of Latin origin. It is derived from the Latin word patrician, meaning "noble". The masculine form of the name is Patrick...

 or Patrick. The name may refer to:

People

  • Pat Benatar
    Pat Benatar
    Pat Benatar is an American singer and four-time Grammy winner. She had considerable commercial success particularly in the United States...

    , American female singer
  • Pat Boone
    Pat Boone
    Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an American singer, actor and writer who has been a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. He covered black artists' songs and sold more copies than his black counterparts...

    , American male singer
  • Pat Burrell
    Pat Burrell
    Patrick Brian "Pat" Burrell , nicknamed "Pat the Bat," is a Major League Baseball outfielder who is currently a free agent. He stands tall and weighs . He bats and throws right-handed...

    , Major League Baseball player
  • Pat Condell
    Pat Condell
    Patrick Condell is an Irish-English writer, political commentator, comedian, UKIP patron and atheist internet personality. He performed alternative comedy shows during the 1980s and 1990s in the United Kingdom, and won a Time Out Comedy Award in 1991...

    , comedian
  • Pat McAfee
    Pat McAfee
    Patrick "Pat" McAfee is an American football punter for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. He was a placekicker, punter, and soccer player at West Virginia.-Freshman season:...

    , American football player
  • Pat McDonald, Australian actress
  • Pat Metheny
    Pat Metheny
    Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...

    , musician
  • Pat Musick
    Pat Musick
    Pat Musick is an American voice actress. She is the mother of Mae Whitman.-Television roles:* 2 Stupid Dogs - Additional Voices* The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda - Additional Voices...

    , American voice actress
  • Pat Nixon
    Pat Nixon
    Thelma Catherine "Pat" Ryan Nixon was the wife of Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States, and was First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974. She was commonly known as Patricia or Pat Nixon.Born in Nevada, Pat Ryan grew up in Los Angeles, California...

    , former First Lady of the United States
  • Pat O'Brien, American sportscaster
  • Pat Parker
    Pat Parker (footballer)
    Patrick John Parker is a retired English professional footballer who played at centre half for Southampton in the 1950s.-Playing career:...

    , Football player
  • Pat Riley
    Pat Riley
    Patrick James "Pat" Riley is an American professional basketball executive, and a retired coach and player in the NBA. Currently, he is team president of the Miami Heat. Widely regarded as one of the greatest NBA coaches of all time, Riley has served as the head coach of five championship teams...

    , Basketball coach
  • Pat Robertson
    Pat Robertson
    Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson is a media mogul, television evangelist, ex-Baptist minister and businessman who is politically aligned with the Christian Right in the United States....

    , American televangelist
  • Pat Sajak
    Pat Sajak
    Pat Sajak is a television personality, former weatherman, actor and talk show host, best known as the host of the American television game show Wheel of Fortune.-Early life:...

    , the host of the current U.S. Wheel of Fortune
  • Pat White (football player), American football player

Fictional characters

  • Pat (Saturday Night Live)
    Pat (Saturday Night Live)
    Pat was an androgynous fictional character created and performed by Julia Sweeney for the American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, and later featured in the film It's Pat...

    , a recurring androgynous character on Saturday Night Live
  • Pat Evans
    Pat Evans
    Patricia Louise "Pat" Evans is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders. She has been played by Pam St. Clement since 12 June 1986, just over a year after the show first aired...

    , a popular fictional character from Eastenders
  • Pat Novak, title character in the American Broadcasting Company
    American Broadcasting Company
    The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

     radio drama Pat Novak for Hire
    Pat Novak for Hire
    Pat Novak, for Hire is an old-time radio detective drama series which aired from 1946-1947 as a West Coast regional program and in 1949 as a nationwide program for ABC. The regional version originally starred Jack Webb in the title role, with scripts by his roommate Richard L. Breen...

    , played by Jack Webb
    Jack Webb
    John Randolph "Jack" Webb , also known by the pseudonym John Randolph, was an American actor, television producer, director and screenwriter, who is most famous for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday in the radio and television series Dragnet...

    , who would routinely be duped by his clients.
  • Postman Pat
    Postman Pat
    Postman Pat is a British stop-motion animated children's television series first produced by Woodland Animations. It is aimed at pre-school children, and concerns the adventures of Pat Clifton, a postman in the fictional village of Greendale .Postman Pat's first 13-episode season was screened on...

    , the children's TV character

Places

  • Pat, Hungary
    Pat, Hungary
    - External links :*...

    , a village in Zala county, Hungary
  • Pat, Jerusalem, a neighborhood in southern Jerusalem, Israel
  • Pat River
    Pat River
    The Pat River is a river of Thailand and part of the Chao Phraya River basin. It joins the Nan River in Uttaradit Province.-See also:*Tributaries of the Chao Phraya River...

    , a river of Thailand, it joins the Nan River in Uttaradit Province

Other uses

  • Pat's King of Steaks, a restaurant and tourist attraction in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania known for serving cheesesteaks.
  • Pat and Pat II, the dogs who William Lyon Mackenzie King
    William Lyon Mackenzie King
    William Lyon Mackenzie King, PC, OM, CMG was the dominant Canadian political leader from the 1920s through the 1940s. He served as the tenth Prime Minister of Canada from December 29, 1921 to June 28, 1926; from September 25, 1926 to August 7, 1930; and from October 23, 1935 to November 15, 1948...

     believed held the spirit of his deceased mother.
  • Pat, a type of silk.

See also

  • Patrick (disambiguation)
  • Patricia (disambiguation)
    Patricia (disambiguation)
    Patricia is a common given name. It may also refer to:* Patricia , a song written by Benny Davis, recorded by Perry Como* Princess Patricia of Connaught, a member of the British Royal Family and granddaughter of Queen Victoria...

  • PAT (disambiguation)
  • PATS (disambiguation)
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