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:
“This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.”
—Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890)
“There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.”
—Chris Patten (b. 1944)