Patricia Horne (September 19, 1927 - October 29, 2012), was an Irish medical doctor who spent the beginning of her career working in Africa in Nigeria in the 1950s.

Her father was a Royal Army Medical Corps officer at Gallipoli before returning to Dublin and marrying Moclair in 1925.

She applied for government public health operations in Hong Kong, Africa and India but in 1957 went to work on a two-year contract to a missionary hospital in Nsukka, Nigeria.

Some of the surgery methods used due to decisions made locally had strong arguments in their favour but have been controversial in other locations.

A back injury forced Horne to give up surgery and she took up psychiatry and worked in Ireland until her retirement in 1994.