Patrick Bloche

Patrick Bloche (; born 4 July 1956 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as a member of the National Assembly of France from 1997 to 2017. In parliament, he was part of the SRC parliamentary group.

On 13 July 2011 Bloche joined the campaign team of Martine Aubry for the PS primaries, which she lost to François Hollande. Within the campaign team, he was responsible, along with Sandrine Bonnaire, for culture and media.

In parliament, Bloche served as president of the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education during the Hollande government. The committee voted in favour of an amendment proposed by Martine Faure, and favoured by Yves Durand, Martine Martinel and Marie-George Buffet among others, to replace, in the national elementary curriculum, the biological concept of "sex" with the concept of "gender" to include a social dimension. The elementary curriculum was successfully revised in September 2013 under the name "l'ABCD de l'egalite".

In addition to his committee assignments, Bloche served as vice chairman of the Study Group on the issue of Tibet.

Ahead of the Socialist Party's 2017 primaries, Bloche endorsed Vincent Peillon as the party's candidate for the presidential election later that year.