Charles Patrick "Pat" Roberts (born April 20, 1936) is the junior United States Senator from Kansas. A member of the Republican Party, he was formerly the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Roberts hails from a family that has long published the small town weekly Oskaloosa Independent, which claims to be the second-oldest newspaper in Kansas. Roberts was born in Topeka, Kansas to Ruth B. Patrick and C. Wesley Roberts, who served for four months as Chairman of the Republican National Committee under Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Roberts graduated in 1954 from high school in Holton, Kansas and went on to earn a B.A. in Journalism from Kansas State University in 1958, where he was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a captain from 1958 to 62. He was a reporter and editor for several Arizona newspapers before joining the staff of Republican Kansas Senator Frank Carlson in 1967. In 1969, he became administrative assistant to Kansas's 1st District Congressman Keith Sebelius.