Patrick O'Connell (born 1971) is a retired professional surfer who competed in the top ranks of the Association of Surfing Professionals (now called The World Surf League) before retiring and working in the surfwear industry and as a top executive with the World Surf League. He is best known to the general public as one of two surfers - along with Robert "Wingnut" Weaver - in Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer II.[1] The film was a 1994 follow-up to Brown's landmark 1966 surf documentary The Endless Summer.[2]