Lakeisha Dawn Patterson, OAM (born 5 January 1999) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer.

At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she won Australia's first gold medal of the Games in a world record time swim in the Women's 400m freestyle S8.

[2] She has early onset Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and cerebral palsy left hemiplegia.

She initially trained under Steve Hadler at Southern Cross Swimming Club, Scarborough and Suellyn Fraser at the Bribie Island Aquatic Leisure Centre.

[9] In April 2016, she was selected as part of the national team for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.

[18][19] At the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships in Manchester, England, she won the gold medal in the Women's 400 m Freestyle S9.