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- Alan PatonAlan PatonAlan Stewart Paton was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist.-Family:Paton was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal Province , the son of a minor civil servant. After attending Maritzburg College, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Natal in his hometown, followed...
(1903-1988), South African author - Borys PatonBorys PatonBorys Yevhenovych Paton is the long-term chairman of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He was born in Kiev...
(b. 1918), long-term chairman of the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine - Charlie PatonCharlie PatonCharlie Paton , former Royal Marine and personal trainer, is the first Scotsman to walk unsupported to the Geographic North Pole from Canada. After 70 days on the ice, Charlie led by Alan Chambers MBE, raised the Union Jack on top of the world at 23:16 hours on 16 May 2000...
, Scottish polar adventurer - Danny PatonDanny PatonDanny Paton was a Scottish footballer, who played for Heart Of Midlothian and Oxford United.Paton was born in the coal-mining village of Breich. He was a forward and featured in the Hearts side that won the 1962 Scottish League Cup Final.-External links:*...
(b. 1936), Scottish footballer - David PatonDavid PatonDavid Paton is a Scottish bass and guitar player, most notably with three different bands: Pilot, The Alan Parsons Project, and Camel. He has also worked as a solo artist, session musician, and sometime vocalist...
(b. 1949), Scottish musician - Evgeny PatonEvgeny PatonProfessor Evgeny Oscarovich Paton was a Ukrainian and Soviet engineer who established the E. O. Paton Electric Welding Institute in Kiev. He is father of Borys Paton....
(1870-1953), Ukrainian engineer - George Henry Tatham PatonGeorge Henry Tatham PatonGeorge Henry Tatham Paton VC MC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
(1895-1917), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross - George Whitecross PatonGeorge Whitecross PatonProfessor Sir George Whitecross Paton, B.A., B.C.L. , Hon. LL.D. , D.C.L. , M.A was an Australian legal scholar and Vice Chancellor of Melbourne University....
(1902-1985), previous Vice Chancellor of Melbourne University - Joan PatonJoan PatonJoan Burton Paton was a South Australian teacher, naturalist, environmentalist and ornithologist. Her father was Professor Sir John Cleland, a notable microbiologist and pathologist who strongly encouraged her early interest in natural history.She was educated at the University of Adelaide where...
(1916-2000), Australian ornithologist - John Paton (VC) (1833-1914), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
- John Paton (UK politician)John Paton (UK politician)John Paton was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom, and a Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1964.He was elected at the 1945 general election as MP for the two-seat Norwich constituency...
(1886–1976), Labour Member of Parliament for Norwich 1945–1950, Norwich North 1950–1964 - John Brown PatonJohn Brown PatonJohn Brown Paton , English Nonconformist theologian, was born on the 17 December 1830.He was educated at London, Poole and Spring Hill College, Birmingham; he graduated B.A. at the University of London in 1849, and was Hebrew and New Testament prizeman in 1850 and gold medallist in philosophy in 1854...
(1830-1911), English theologian - John Gibson PatonJohn Gibson PatonRev. Dr. John Gibson Paton , born in Scotland, was a Protestant missionary to the New Hebrides Islands of the South Pacific. Paton undertook a tremendous work which would yield little fruit for decades, convinced of the absolute sovereignty of God to build his church...
(1824-1907), Scottish missionary - Joseph Noel PatonJoseph Noel PatonSir Joseph Noel Paton FRSA, LL. D. was a Scottish artist, born in Wooer's Alley, Dunfermline, Fife.Born to a family of weavers who worked with damask, Joseph continued the family trade for a short time...
(1821-1901), Scottish artist - Raffaëla PatonRaffaëla PatonRaffaëla Paton is a Dutch singer of Surinamese descent and the winner of the 2006 Dutch talent show Idols.-Biography:...
(b. 1983), Dutch singer - Richard PatonRichard PatonRichard Paton was a British marine painter.Paton spent his artistic career in London, where he is said to have been born, although no record of his birthplace or parentage is known. He is said to have grown up in poverty, and he is described as "self-taught". Some critics have discerned an...
(1717-1791), British marine painter - Tam PatonTam PatonThomas Dougal "Tam" Paton , was the manager and primary spokesman during the 1970s of the Scottish band, the Bay City Rollers....
(1938-2009), Scottish manager of the Bay City Rollers - Thomas PatonThomas PatonSir Thomas Angus Lyall Paton CMG, FRS, BSc FASCE FIStructE MICE was a British civil engineer from Jersey. Paton was born into a family which had founded the civil engineering firms of Easton, Gibb & Son and Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners and would spend his entire professional career working for...
(1905-1999), British civil engineer - Walter PatonWalter PatonWalter Boldero Paton was an English barrister who also wrote guides to emigration to the British colonies. In his youth, he was a keen footballer who played for Oxford University in the 1873 FA Cup Final and for England in 1871 in a representative match against Scotland.-Family and education:Paton...
(1853–1937), English barrister who played for Oxford University in the 1873 FA Cup Final
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- Paton (motorcycles)Paton (motorcycles)Paton is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer. In 1957 after FB Mondial pulled out of Grand Prix racing, Paton was set up by Giuseppi Pattoni and designer Lino Tonti....
, an Italian motorcycle manufacturer - Patons and BaldwinsPatons and BaldwinsPatons and Baldwins was a leading British manufacturer of knitting yarn. It was a constituent of the FT 30 index of leading companies on the London Stock Exchange.-History:...
, a former British manufacturer of knitting yarn