Patrick Anderson SJ (1575 – 24 September 1624) was a Scottish Jesuit, known as a missioner, college head, and author.
[1] Anderson was a native of Elgin or Moray, his mother being a sister of John Lesley.
After a basic education at Elgin grammar school, and a course of classical study at the University of Edinburgh, he entered the Society of Jesus at Rome in 1597.
[2] In time Anderson acquired a reputation as linguist, mathematician, philosopher, and divine.
Threatened with the torture of the boot, he was liberated by the intercession, it was thought, of the French ambassador Antoine Coiffier-Ruzé, marquis d'Effiat, who chose him for his confessor.