Patricia Anne Conlon (née Carden; 2 November 1939 – 13 December 1979) was an Australian feminist, public servant and labour activist.
She was born in Neutral Bay, New South Wales, to wool classer John Hoare Carden and Patricia Anne, née de Coque.
She attended St Joseph's Convent School in Neutral Bay and then Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College, of which she was dux in 1956.
Conlon had been a founding member of the Women's Electoral Lobby in 1972 and that year contested a by-election for the state seat of Mosman for the Labor Party, without success.
[1] In 1975 she was awarded a grant by the Australian National Advisory Committee of International Women's Year, expanding her research with Edna Ryan into a book, Gentle Invaders.