Family
- mother Doris Patinkin:
- grandfather Max:
- grandmother Doralee Patinkin Rubin: wrote cookbook "Grandma Doralee Patinkin's Jewish Family Cookbook" (published in 1997)
- father Lester Patinkin: died of cancer at age 52 in 1972; had studied business at University of Chicago; instead entered his father's business as head of Peoples Iron & Metal Company and the Scrap Corporation of America
- sister Marsha Patinkin: older; regional head of the National Conference of Christians and Jews in northern Nevada
- cousin Laura Patinkin: appeared in 1990 revival of "Fiddler on the Roof" and Off-Broadway in "Beau Jest"
- son Isaac Patinkin: born c. 1983
- son Gideon Patinkin: born c. 1987
