Patton Oswalt (born January 27, 1969) is an American stand-up comedian, voiceover artist and actor.

Oswalt was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, to Carla and Larry J. Oswalt. He grew up in Sterling, Virginia and is a 1987 graduate of Broad Run High School in Ashburn, Virginia. He attended the College of William and Mary, where he majored in English and was initiated into the Alpha Theta Chapter of the Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity.

Oswalt married writer Michelle McNamara, on September 24, 2005. Their daughter, Alice Rigney Oswalt, was born in April 2009.