Given the question: Ralph D. Patman (10 January 1916 - 2009) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy and Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Patman was already 27 when he started his VFL career at Fitzroy where he came to from East Geelong. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
The answer is:
Athlete