Patronage (disambiguation)

Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another.

Patronage may also refer to:
 * Patronage (transportation) or ridership, a statistical quantity of passengers
 * Patronage (novel), an 1814 novel by Maria Edgeworth
 * Spoils system or patronage system
 * Ius patronatus or right of patronage in Roman Catholic canon law
 * Patronage, the practice of appointing a parish clergyman in the Church of England; see advowson
 * Patronage, the practice of appointing a parish clergyman in the Church of Scotland; see Church Patronage (Scotland) Act 1711