Major Patrick Hunter Gordon CBE MC FRSE (6 December 1916 – 28 March 1978) was a Scottish soldier and electrical engineer.
He was Managing Director of two engineering firms, AI Welders and Cable Belt.
He was educated at Cargilfield Preparatory School in Edinburgh and Oundle School in Northamptonshire, before going on to study Mechanical Sciences at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated BA (1938) and MA (Cantab).
In the Second World War he was located at Fort Hahenberg, before moving to Brillon near Lille on the Maginot Line in March 1940.
Valerie Hunter Gordon came to fame in 1947 as the inventor of one of the world's first disposable nappies, the PADDI.