Patrick Creadon (born May 4, 1967) is an American filmmaker primarily known for his work in documentaries. His first film, Wordplay, profiled New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz and premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. The film screened in over 500 theatres nationwide and became the second-highest grossing documentary of that year. His second film, I.O.U.S.A., is a non-partisan examination of America's national debt problem and forecast the global financial crisis of 2007-2008. I.O.U.S.A. premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was later named one of the Top 5 Documentaries of the Year by film critic Roger Ebert.Other works include the documentary features If You Build It (2013), the ESPN 30 for 30 film Catholics vs. Convicts (2016), and Hesburgh (2019). He also works as a commercial and television director.

Creadon is one of only a handful of filmmakers to release multiple films ranked among the Top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time simultaneously. Other filmmakers who have done this include Werner Herzog and Academy Award winners Michael Moore, Errol Morris, Alex Gibney, Charles H. Ferguson, Morgan Neville, and Davis Guggenheim.