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A patriot is someone who feels a strong support for their country. See also Patriotism.
Patriot(s) may also refer to:
Politics
- Patriot Party (disambiguation), various political parties and buyers
- Patriot (American Revolution) those who supported the cause of independence in the American Revolution
- Patriot (Spanish American Independence), those who supported the cause of South American independence in the Spanish American wars of independence
- Patriot Act, an act of federal legislation in the United States passed in response to the attacks of September 11
- Patriots (Dutch Republic), a Dutch group that was opposed to the Orangists in the United Provinces in the 18th century
- Patriote movement, those who supported independence for what is now Québec, Canada, during the Lower Canada Rebellion
- Christian Patriot movement, a far-right Christian conservative movement in the United States
- Patriot movement, a small-government or antigovernment conservative movement in the United States
- Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, a political party in Iraqi Kurdistan
Military
- Patriot War of 1800–1800, a campaign in eastern Michigan of the U.S. and in the Windsor, Ontario, area of Canada joey bob
- Hunter Patriots, the rebels defeated in the Patriot War
- Les Patriotes, other rebels defeated in the Patriot War
- MIM-104 Patriot, a surface-to-air missile system (SAM)
- USS Patriot (MCM-7), a U.S. Navy mine countermeasures ship
Newspaper
- The Patriot Ledger, a newspaper covering the south shore of Massachusetts
- California Patriot, a conservative student magazine of the University of California, Berkeley
- The Lebanon Patriot, a now-defunct American newspaper published weekly in Lebanon, Ohio
Broadcasting
- SiriusXM Patriot, a conservative satellite radio network
Observances
- Patriot Day, a U.S. commemoration day established in remembrance of the losses of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
- Patriots' Day, a holiday in the U.S. states of Massachusetts, Maine, and Wisconsin in honor of Lexington and Concord (American Revolutionary War)
Sports
- El Paso Patriots, a soccer team of the USL Premier Development League, based in El Paso, Texas
- Patriot Stadium, a soccer stadium in El Paso, Texas
- Fayetteville Patriots, a defunct basketball team of the National Basketball Development League team, based in Fayetteville, North Carolina
- George Mason Patriots, the name given to the athletics teams from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia
- New England Patriots, an American football team of the National Football League, based in Foxborough, Massachusetts
- Ozark Patriots, a baseball team based in Ozark, Alabama
- Patriot League, a college athletic conference that operates in the northeastern United States
- Somerset Patriots, a minor league baseball team based in Bridgewater, New Jersey
Fiction
- Patriots, a 1937 German film directed by Karl Ritter
- Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse (1995/2009), the first book in the Patriots Novels Series by James Wesley Rawles
- Patriot, two fictional characters in the Marvel Comics universe sometimes referred to as "The Patriot"
- Patriot, a 1993 strategy game about the Gulf War
Other
- LMS Patriot Class, a class of express passenger steam locomotive
- Patriot (Worlds of Fun), a roller coaster in Worlds of Fun amusement park
- Patriot, Indiana, a town in the United States
- Patriot, Ohio, a town in the United States
- Jeep Patriot, a compact SUV manufactured by Chrysler, LLC
- UAZ Patriot, a mid-sized SUV manufactured by UAZ
- Patriots Jet Team, a civilian aerobatic formation team in the United States
See also
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