Colin Patterson may refer to:
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Colin Patterson (ice hockey)
Colin Alexander Patterson (born May 11, 1960) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played ten seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). An undrafted player, he signed as a free agent with the Calgary Flames in 1983 after thre ...
(born 1960), former ice hockey player in the National Hockey League
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Colin Patterson (rugby union)
Colin Patterson (born 3 March 1955) is a former international rugby union player. He toured South Africa in 1980 with the British and Irish Lions and at the time played club rugby for Instonians. His son Johnny captained the Regent House Grammar ...
(born 1955), former Ireland international rugby union player
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Colin Patterson (biologist)
Colin Patterson FRS (1933–1998), was a British palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in London from 1962 to his official retirement in 1993 who specialised in fossil fish and systematics, advocating the transformed cladistics schoo ...
(1933–1998), British palaeontologist
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