John Patten is the name of:
- John Patten (representative) (1746-1800), American soldier and politician from Delaware
- John Patten (British politician) (born 1945), British Conservative politician
- John Thomas Patten or Jack Patten (1905-1957), Australian Aboriginal activist and journalist
Famous quotes containing the words john and/or patten:
“Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He’ll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.”
—Chris Patten (b. 1944)