** Sithney, patron saint of mad dogs

** Brigid, patron saint of Ireland

** Cyril and Methodius, patron saints of Europe ( Roman Catholic Church )

** Elizabeth of Portugal, patron saint of Coimbra ( city holiday ), known there as Rainha Santa Isabela.

** King George VI opens London's Royal Festival Hall as a patron.

** Luisa Casati, Italian patron of the arts ( b. 1881 )

** Edgar J. Kaufmann, American merchant and patron of Fallingwater ( d. 1955 )

** Richard Amerike, English merchant and patron of John Cabot ( b. 1445 )

** Gaius Maecenas, Roman politician and patron of the arts ( b. 70 BC )

** Blessed Margaret of Castello, patron of the poor, crippled, and unwanted ( b. 1287 )

** William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy, scholar and patron

** Xanthus, the gods ' name for Scamander, the great river of Troy and its patron god

** Elkan Naumburg, businessman, musicologist and patron of the arts ( b. 1835 )

** Sir Peter Beckford, English peerage ( b. 1740 ), patron of Muzio Clementi

** Andreas Razumovsky, patron of Ludwig van Beethoven ( b. 1752 )

** a patron of a public house

** Józef Wybicki, patron of a high-school in Gdańsk-Orunia

** Sir Peter Beckford, English peer ( died 1811 ), patron of Muzio Clementi

** De architectura – treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect Vitruvius and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus, as a guide for building projects.

** The Scourge disguised as a movie patron

** Feast of Saint Augustine, Avilés ' patron saint.

** Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein ( 1819 – 1887 ), Russian nobility, Franz Liszt's mistress and patron

An anecdote in " A Letter from Mr. Cibber, to Mr. Pope ", published in 1742, recounts their trip to a brothel organised by Pope's own patron, who apparently intended to stage a cruel joke at the expense of the poet.