Patrick Robinson (January 21, 1940) is a British novelist and former newspaper columnist.
His recent books are naval thrillers, each telling the story of a crisis facing the world at the start of the 21st century. His earlier works include four nonfiction books about thoroughbred horses; The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny, the story of the 1987 Oxford Boat Race mutiny (for which he, and co-author Dan Topolski won the inaugural William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 1989); and One Hundred Days, the biography of Admiral Sir Sandy Woodward.