John Patterson

Military

• John Patterson , Medal of Honor recipient
• John Henry Patterson , Medal of Honor recipient
• John Henry Patterson , Anglo-Irish soldier and writer

  Politics

• John Patterson , U.S. congressman from Ohio
• John Patterson
• John J. Patterson, U.S. senator from South Carolina, 1873–1879
• John M. Patterson, U.S. politician from Alabama
• John Paterson , New York congressman
• John Patterson , New Zealand Māori member of Parliament
• John Patterson , Auckland city councillor, 1900–1903 and 1908–1911
• Jonathan Patterson, member of Missouri House of Representatives since 2018
• Robert John Patterson, Canadian politician

  Sports

• John W. Patterson, nicknamed Pat, African American baseball player and team manager 1893–1907
• John Patterson , former Major League infielder
• John Patterson , former Major League pitcher
• John Patterson , English cricketer
• Red Patterson, former Major League pitcher

  Other

• John Henry Patterson , founder of the National Cash Register Company
• John Patterson , director of the Canadian Meteorological Service
• John Thomas Patterson , American geneticist and professor
• John H. Patterson , American economist
• John Patterson , actor in the 1937 film Hotel Haywire
• John Patterson , US diplomat murdered in Mexico
• John Patterson , American film and television director
• John Richard Patterson, founder of the Dateline computer-dating company
• John Patterson , Australian screenwriter, lyricist, playwright and children's author
• USCGC John Patterson, the 53rd Sentinel-class cutter
• John Patterson, namesake of a Sentinel-class cutter