Pat is a common first name, mostly a shortened version of either Patricia or Patrick. The name may refer to:

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Jennifer Batten (born November 29, 1957) is an American guitarist, who has worked as both a session musician and solo artist. She has released three studio albums: her 1992 debut, Above Below and Beyond, was produced by former Stevie Wonder guitarist Michael Sembello. In 1997, she released the worldbeat-influenced Jennifer Batten's Tribal Rage: Momentum. Her third album, Whatever, was released in Japan in September 2007 and the U.S. on April 18, 2008.

Batten has appeared on recordings such as Jeff Beck's Who Else! (1999) and You Had It Coming (2001), Carmine Appice's Guitar Zeus (1995), Michael Sembello's Heavy Weather (1992), Carl Anderson's Sunlight Again (1994), Cindy Cruz's debut, Public Image bassist Bret Helm's "Doc Tahri" and the debut of The Immigrants. Her music video appearances include Jeff Beck, Michael Jackson, Natalie Cole and Sara Hickman and Miguel Mateos's "Obsesión".

Batten played lead and rhythm guitar on Michael Jackson's Bad (1987), Dangerous (1992) and HIStory (1996) world tours, as well as his 1993 Super Bowl half-time performance.

Patrick Hicks (born 1970 Charlotte, North Carolina ) is an American poet, and Writer-in-Residence at Augustana College.

He was raised in Stillwater, Minnesota. Much of his fiction takes place in Minnesota, but his poetry often discusses his experiences in Northern Ireland, Germany, and Spain. Hicks is a dual citizen of the United States and Ireland. He holds degrees from Saint John's University, DePaul University, Queen's University of Belfast (Northern Ireland), and the University of Sussex (England).

Aside from being a Visiting Fellow at Oxford, he has been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize, his stories have been shortlisted for Best American Stories, and he has won a variety of grants to support his work. He recently won a grant from the Bush Foundation to support work on his first novel, which is about Auschwitz.

His work has appeared in scores of international publications including, Ploughshares,The Utne Reader, Commonweal, Glimmer Train, Indiana Review, Tar River Poetry, Poetry East, and Nimrod.