J. Patrick Greene FSA OBE is a British archaeologist and museum director.
Greene was appointed in 1971 to conduct an exploratory excavation at Norton Priory near Runcorn in Cheshire, England.
His findings were so important that he was retained for a total of 12 years to organise an excavation which "became the largest in area to be carried out by modern methods on any monastic site in Europe".
[2] The excavation formed the basis for a thesis which led to his award of PhD by Leeds University in 1986.
In 2002, he was appointed chief executive officer of Museum Victoria,[3] a post that he held until 2017.