Van Patten is a surname and may refer to:
- Dick Van Patten
- Joyce Van Patten
- Philip Van Patten, pioneer American socialist functionary
- Sarah Van Patten
- Timothy Van Patten
- Vincent Van Patten
Famous quotes containing the words van and/or patten:
“The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“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)