Patrick Robinson (born 21 January 1940) is a British novelist and newspaper columnist living in Cotuit, Massachusetts, US.He is the father of Ben Robinson from the Bravo TV shows Below Deck and Below Deck Mediterranean.

His recent books are naval-based thrillers, each telling the story of a crisis facing the world in the early 21st century. His earlier works include four nonfiction books about thoroughbred horses; True Blue: 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.