Sir Patrick Reginald Evelyn Browne, PC, OBE, TD (28 May 1907 – 1 October 1996) was an English judge, who was a Lord Justice of Appeal between 1974 and 1980.
His grandfather was Sir Benjamin Chapman Browne, head of the shipbuilding and engineering firm R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company.
The same year, he married Evelyn Sophie Alexandra (d 1966), daughter of the archaeologist Sir Charles Walston, a family friend.
In 1965, he was appointed a Justice of the High Court and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division, receiving the customary knighthood.
He was the first instance judge in the seminal case Anisminic Ltd v Foreign Compensation Commission, where he found in favour of the plaintiffs.