Gabrielle Ruth Millicent Patterson (née Burr; 1905–1968) was a British aviator who worked for the Air Transport Auxiliary.

Her mother Clara Millicent Goode and her siblings moved with their father and she received an education in various European locations "including Paris, Berlin, Budapest, and Vienna".

[2] For the opening of Chigwell aerodrome (the aerodrome was being made available to the Women's Air Reserve[5]) in 1938 Patterson arranged an aerial event which included a number of aerial displays including those of representatives from other countries - including the German women pilots Melitta von Stauffenberg and Elly Beinhorn - against a backdrop of increased tension in Europe, the event coinciding with the Munich Crisis[6] When war broke out in 1939 she join the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA).

She was already well known as leader of the National Women’s Air Reserve[3] as part of which she had taught fellow ATA pilot Margot Gore to fly and trained her as a flight instructor.

Patterson devoted a lot of time and energy toward the project and created its initial publicity materials.

When the war ended Patterson continued flying and instructing as the commandant of the Women’s Junior Air Corps until 1950.

[3] A bus company in Hatfield named its eight buses after the "first eight" of the Tiger Moth pilots in the ATA, including Gabrielle Patterson.