John Patterson

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John Patterson can mean any of the following:

  • John Patterson (1805-1856), a Canadian businessman and canal builder
  • John J. Patterson US senator from South Carolina from 1873 to 1879.
  • John W. Patterson, nicknamed "Pat", an African American baseball player around the turn of the 20th century.
  • John Malcolm Patterson (born 1921), an American politician.
  • John Tiffin Patterson (1940-2005), an American film director.
  • John Henry Patterson (soldier), a soldier in the American Civil War (recipient of the Medal of Honor)
  • John Patterson (musician), an Australian musician.
  • John Patterson (baseball) (born 1978), a major league pitcher.
  • John Patterson (creative director) (born 1963), a Baltimore-born advertising creative director
  • John Patterson (Ohio) (1771-1848), United States Congressman from Pennsylvania
  • John Patterson (Waco), therapist[1]
  • John Henry Patterson (author) (1867–1947), an Anglo-Irish soldier who wrote The Man-Eaters of Tsavo which was made into the film The Ghost and the Darkness in 1996
  • John Henry Patterson (NCR owner) (1844–1922), the founder and first owner of the National Cash Register Company