Patriot

A patriot is someone who feels a strong support for his or her country. See Patriotism. Patriot or Patriots may also refer to:

Politics

• Patriot Party (disambiguation), various political parties
• Patriot (American Revolution) those who supported the cause of independence in the American Revolution
• Patriot (Spanish American Revolution), those who supported the cause of South American independence in the Spanish American wars of independence
• USA PATRIOT Act, an act of federal legislation in the United States passed in response to the attacks of September 11
• Patriots (faction), a Dutch group that was opposed to the Orangists in the United Provinces in the 18th century
• Patriote movement, those who supported independence for what is now Québec, Canada, during the Lower Canada Rebellion
• Christian Patriot movement, a far-right Christian conservative movement in the United States
• Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, a political party in Iraqi Kurdistan

Military

• Patriot War of 1837–1838, a campaign in eastern Michigan in the United States and in the Windsor, Ontario area of Canada
  • Hunter Patriots, the rebels defeated in the Patriot War
• MIM-104 Patriot, a surface-to-air missile system (SAM)
• USS Patriot (MCM-7), a U.S. Navy mine countermeasures ship

Newspaper

• The Patriot Ledger, a newspaper covering the south shore of Massachusetts
• California Patriot, a conservative student magazine of the University of California, Berkeley
• The Lebanon Patriot, a now-defunct American newspaper published weekly in Lebanon, Ohio

Broadcasting

• SIRIUS Patriot, a conservative satellite radio network.
• Jon Arthur (radio host), a conservative patriot radio talk show host.

Observances

• Patriot Day, a U.S. holiday established in remembrance of those killed in the September 11 attacks
• Patriots' Day, a holiday in the U.S. states of Massachusetts, Maine, and Wisconsin in honor of Lexington and Concord.

Sports

• New England Patriots, an American football team of the National Football League, based in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
• El Paso Patriots, a soccer team of the USL Premier Development League, based in El Paso, Texas
  • Patriot Stadium, a soccer stadium in El Paso, Texas
• Fayetteville Patriots, a defunct basketball team of the National Basketball Development League team, based in Fayetteville, North Carolina
• Ozark Patriots, a baseball team based in Ozark, Alabama
• Patriot League, a college athletic conference which operates in the northeastern United States.
• Somerset Patriots, a minor league baseball team based in Bridgewater, New Jersey
• George Mason Patriots, the name given to the athletics teams from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia

Fiction

• Okraina aka The Patriots, a Soviet film by Boris Barnet
• Patriots (Metal Gear), a secret society in the Metal Gear video game series
• Patriot, a fictional assault pistol with anomalous properties used in the video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
• Patriot (comics), two separate fictional comic book superheroes in the Marvel Comics universe
• Patriot (video game), a 1993 strategy game about the Gulf War
• The Patriots, a 1943 play by Sidney Kingsley
• Patriots (film), a 1937 German film directed by Karl Ritter
• Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse, 2009, James Wesley Rawles

Other

• LMS Patriot Class, a class of express passenger steam locomotive
• Patriot (Worlds of Fun), a roller coaster in Worlds of Fun amusement park
• Patriot, Indiana, a town in the U.S.
• Patriot, Ohio, a town in the U.S.
• Jeep Patriot, a compact SUV manufactured by Chrysler, LLC
• UAZ Patriot, a mid-sized SUV manufactured by UAZ
• Patriots Jet Team, a civilian aerobatic formation team in the U.S.

See also

• The Patriot (disambiguation)
• Patriot Games (disambiguation)