Pat Farmer

Patrick Francis Daniel Farmer, born 14 March 1962 in the Sydney suburb of Ultimo, is an Australian ultra-marathon athlete, motivational speaker and former politician. He represented the seat of Macarthur in south-west Sydney in the Australian House of Representatives for the Liberal Party from 2001 to 2010. Before politics he worked as a motor mechanic from 1977 to 1984, then began ultra-marathon running in 1984 while working as a landscape gardener with his brother Tony, and set a number of Australian and world ultra-marathon records. He raised significant funds for Diabetes Australia, Lifeline, CareFlight and the Westmead Millennium Institute for Medical Research. Between April 2011 and January 2012 he completed a Pole to Pole Run from the North Pole to the South Pole, raising 100,000 dollars for Red Cross International, and in April 2023 he set out on a 14,400 km run around Australia.