Samuel James Patterson is a Northern Irish mathematician specializing in analytic number theory. He has been a professor at the University of Göttingen since 1981.
Samuel Patterson (2nd from right) 2004 in Oberwolfach, with (from left) Martin Huxley, Yōichi Motohashi, Matti Jutila
David Joseph Patterson is a Northern Irish taxonomist specializing in protozoa and the use of taxonomy in biodiversity informatics.
David J. Patterson, island of Sylt, 1992