Richard Patterson may refer to:
- Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr. (1886-1966), U.S. ambassador
- Richard Patterson (artist) (born 1963)
- Richard North Patterson, writer
- Richard Patterson, sailor on the whaleship Essex
- Richard Patterson (musician), drummer in several Canadian bands, particularly from the 1960s and 1970s, including 3s a Crowd
- Richie Patterson, New Zealand weightlifter
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“I have seen in this revolution a circular motion of the sovereign power through two usurpers, father and son, to the late King to this his son. For ... it moved from King Charles I to the Long Parliament; from thence to the Rump; from the Rump to Oliver Cromwell; and then back again from Richard Cromwell to the Rump; then to the Long Parliament; and thence to King Charles, where long may it remain.”
—Thomas Hobbes (15791688)