Samuel Patten (born 23 May 1963) is a former Australian World Champion rower and Olympic medallist.

His professional career has been as an orthopaedic surgeon specialising in hip and knee surgery and based in Melbourne.

[2] Two years later he was a member of the Australian men's senior eight who won a bronze medal at the 1983 World Rowing Championships in Duisburg, Germany.

He was seated at three, with Nick Green (bow), Mike McKay (two) and James Tomkins (stroke), and achieved his first and only world championship gold medal.

[6] At the Olympic games in Seoul 1988 Patten and Malcolm Batten were selected in the squad as reserves for the eight and qualified a coxless pair.