Paddy (given name)
Paddy is a unisex given name. It is often short for Patrick, Patricia, or Pádraig.
Notable people include:
Men
- Paddy Ashdown, British politician and diplomat
- Paddy Barnes, Irish amateur boxer
- Paddy Baumann, American baseball player
- Paddy Belton, Irish politician
- Paddy Bradley, Irish Gaelic footballer
- Paddy Buckley, Scottish footballer
- Paddy Chayefsky, American playwright, screenwriter and novelist
- Paddy Clancy, Irish folk singer
- Paddy Considine, English actor, filmmaker, screenwriter and musician
- Paddy Corrigan, Irish retired hurling player
- Paddy Cullen, Irish former football goalkeeper and manager
- Paddy Daly, member of the Irish Republican Army and major-general in the Irish National Army
- Paddy Doherty (disambiguation), several people
- Paddy Donegan, Irish politician
- Paddy Driscoll, American football quarterback in both the Pro and College Football Halls of Fame
- Paddy Finucane, Second World War flying ace with the Royal Air Force
- Paddy Fisher, American football player
- Paddy George, New Zealand rugby union and rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s and 1910s
- Paddy Glackin, Irish fiddler
- Paddy Golden, Northern Irish emergency physician and sports doctor
- Paddy Gormley, Irish politician
- Charles Patrick Green, South African-born British Royal Air Force Second World War fighter ace
- Paddy Greene, American baseball player
- Paddy Greene (hurler), Irish hurler
- Paddy Harrington, Irish Gaelic footballer
- Paddy Harte, Irish politician
- Paddy Hayes, Irish Gaelic footballer
- Paddy Henderson (disambiguation), multiple people
- Paddy Keenan, Irish player of the uilleann pipes
- Paddy Kennedy (disambiguation), various people
- Paddy Kenny, Premier League football goalkeeper
- Paddy Larkin, Irish hurling player of the 1930s and 1940s
- Paddy Livingston, American baseball player
- Paddy Lowe, British motor racing engineer
- Paddy Mayne, British Army lieutenant colonel and founder of the elite Special Air Service, solicitor and Irish rugby union international
- Paddy Mayes, American baseball player
- Paddy McAloon, English singer, songwriter and member of the band Prefab Sprout
- Paddy McCarthy, Irish footballer
- Paddy McCourt, Footballer from Northern Ireland
- Paddy McGuinness, English comedian, actor, television personality and presenter
- Paddy McNair, Footballer from Northern Ireland
- Paddy Mendis, 4th Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force
- Paddy Mitchell, Canadian bank robber
- Paddy Moloney, founder and leader of the Irish musical group The Chieftains
- Paddy Moore, Irish footballer
- Paddy Mullins, Irish racehorse trainer
- Paddy O'Brien (disambiguation), several people
- Paddy O'Connor, Irish-American baseball player
- Paddy O'Kane, Irish footballer during the 1920s and 1930s
- Paddy O'Keeffe, Irish hurler
- Paddy Quinn (disambiguation), multiple people
- Paddy Reilly (disambiguation), various people
- Paddy Ryan, Irish American boxer and world heavyweight champion
- J.P. "Paddy" Saul, Irish aviator and seaman
- Paddy Siglin, American baseball player
- Paddy Smith (disambiguation), multiple people
- Paddy Tuimavave, former professional rugby league footballer who represented New Zealand and Western Samoa
- Paddy Wallace, Irish rugby union footballer
Women
- Paddy Bassett, New Zealand agricultural scientist
- Paddy Bell, Multiple people
- Paddy Christie (journalist), Scottish journalist
- Paddy Croft, English born Irish-American actress
- Paddy Figgis, Irish archeologist and author
- Paddy Higson, Scottish film producer
- Paddy Johnson, American art educator and entrepreneur
- Paddy Jones, British salsa dancer
- Paddy Kitchen, English novelist, biographer, and art critic
- Paddy McGroarty, British international footballer
- Paddy Naismith, British actress, pilot, racing driver
- Paddy O'Reilly (writer), Australian writer
- Paddy O'Sullivan, Irish officer
- Paddy Richardson, New Zealand writer
- Paddy Ridsdale, British secretary and intelligence operative
- Paddy Russell, British television director
- Paddy Summerfield (artist), British artist
- Paddy Torsney, Canadian politician
- Paddy Walker, New Zealand teacher, peace activist, and politician