Famous People with Name Patrick

Patrick Campbell Rodger            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Patrick Campbell Rodger: also known as Tommy Smith or T.J. Smith was a leading trainer of thoroughbred racehorses based in Sydney, Australia. He is acknowledged for his record number of Sydney Trainers Premierships and for training many champion racehorses including Tulloch, Gunsynd and Kingston Town.Born in Jindabyne and raised at the small town of Goolgowi in the Riverina district of New South Wales, young Tommy had a tough childhood. His father Neil Smith was a hard working, but also a hard drinking man, and worked Tommy extremely hard as a young boy. Educated for only a short time at the convent school in Narrandera and for a short time at the state school at Goolgowi, Tommy worked like a man, driving bullock teams and breaking in horses, whilst his contemporaries played with toys. When Tommy looked back on his life, he would always recall with regret the lack of formal education that he received.

Patrick "Patty" Mills            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Patrick "Patty" Mills: an Australian basketball point guard who is currently preparing for his sophomore (second) season at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California, USA. He is especially noted for being one of the first Indigenous Australians to make a major name for himself in basketball[1][2] and one of the youngest players ever to suit up for the men's senior national team, the Boomers.Mills was selected at age 15 for the ACT U18 squad to compete in the Australian National Championships. The following year, Mills accepted a full time scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport, which had also developed two time WNBA MVP Lauren Jackson and current Milwaukee Bucks player Andrew Bogut, where he continued to develop as a player. He also made a strong impression at the 2005 Australian Olympic Youth Festival, an event considered to be a showcase for future elite sporting talents.[3]

Patrick Hart "Pat" Cash            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Patrick Hart "Pat" Cash: is a former professional tennis player from Australia who won the men's singles title at Wimbledon in 1987.Cash first came to the tennis world's attention as a junior player in the early 1980s. He was ranked the top junior player in the world in 1981, and in 1982 he won the junior titles at both Wimbledon and the US Open. He turned professional in 1982 and won his first top-level singles title that year in Melbourne.

Patrick Charles (Paddy) Webb            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Patrick Charles (Paddy) Webb: was a New Zealand trade unionist and politician.Webb was one of the more radical figures in the unions. Many of the older leaders continued to support the loose alliance between the labour movement and the Liberal Party, but Webb believed that only indepe

Patrick Joseph Hartigan            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Patrick Joseph Hartigan: was an Australian Roman Catholic priest, educator, author and poet.He was born at Yass in New South Wales and ordained after study at St Patrick's Seminary, Manly. Writing under the pseudonym "John O'Brien" Hartigan's verse celebrated the lives and mores of the outback pastoral folk he ministered as a peripatetic curate to the southern New South Wales and Riverina towns of Thurgoona, Berrigan and Narrandera, in the first two decades of the 20th century. His poetry was very popular in Australia and was well received in Ireland and the United States.

Roy Patrick            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Roy Patrick: was a former professional footballer who played for Derby County, Nottingham Forest, Southampton, Exeter City and Burton Albion.

Frederik Arnold ("Fred") Patrick            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Frederik Arnold ("Fred") Patrick: was a Dutch-Suriname footballer. During his career he served AZ Alkmaar and PEC Zwolle. He died at the age of 23, when on June 7, 1989 he was killed in the Surinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash in Paramaribo. He was nicknamed "Stevie" for his well-known imitations of Stevie Wonder.Patrick made his professional debut at AZ Alkmaar where he was part of the magic Surinamese trio existing of Patrick, Paul Nortan and Sigi Lens. In 1987 he decided to make a switch and signed for PEC Zwolle. This turned out to be no successful move as they were battling against relegation the whole season long. Eventually,

Jody Patrick            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jody Patrick: is a female badminton player from Canada.Patrick competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in mixed doubles with partner Mike Beres. They lost to Frederik Bergstrom and Johanna Persson of Sweden in the round of 32.

Dr. Ruth Myrtle Patrick            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dr. Ruth Myrtle Patrick: is a botanist and limnologist specializing in diatoms and freshwater ecology, who developed ways to measure the health of freshwater ecosystems and established a number of research facilities. She attended the Sunset Hill School in Kansas City, Missouri,

Nicholas James MacDonald Patrick            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Nicholas James MacDonald Patrick: is a British-born engineer and a NASA astronaut. His flight on the 2006 Discovery STS-116 mission made him the fourth Briton to go into space.Patrick was born in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire, England in 1964, and grew up in London. He became a Uni