Patrick Joseph McGovern Jr. (August 11, 1937 – March 19, 2014) was an American businessman, and chairman and founder of International Data Group (IDG), the company with subsidiaries in technology publishing, research, event management and venture capital.

[2] Forbes magazine wrote that in the 1950s, McGovern earned a college scholarship by designing an unbeatable tic-tac-toe program.

[5] After failing to wrest control of Computer and Automation from his friend and mentor Ed Berkeley, he subsequently started the magazine PC World.

In 1980, he created one of the first American-Chinese joint ventures, and in 1997, Forbes estimated that "Pat McGovern has more readers in China than the People's Daily does.

[6] Bloomberg News reported that IDG had 280 million regular readers of its publications, and annual revenues of $3.6 billion.