Patricia Louise Parkinson (née Woodroffe, 14 July 1926 – 5 August 2001) was a New Zealand fencer who won a silver medal for her country at the 1950 British Empire Games.

[1][2] Educated at St Cuthbert's College,[3][4] she married Finlay James Parkinson in the mid 1950s, but they later divorced.

[5] Woodroffe won the New Zealand national fencing championship in three consecutive years, from 1947 to 1949.

[6] She represented New Zealand at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, winning the silver medal with a record of six wins from seven bouts, losing only to the gold medallist, Mary Glen-Haig.

[7][8][9] Parkinson died on 5 August 2001, and her body was cremated at Hamilton Park Cemetery.