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:
“Where the Muse herself
All Time fulfils,
Who cuts with his scythe
All things but hers;
All but the blithe
Hexameters.”
—Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878–1957)
“Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.”
—Chris Patten (b. 1944)