Cato typically refers to either Cato the Elder or Cato the Younger, both of the Porcii Catones family of Rome.
It may also refer to:
People Ancient Romans Porcii Catones, a plebeian family at Ancient Rome Cato the Elder (Cato Maior) or "the Censor" (Marcus Porcius Cato 234–149 BC), Roman statesman Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus, son of Cato the Elder by his first wife Licinia, jurist Marcus Porcius Cato, son of Cato Licinianus, consul 118 BC, died in Africa in the same year Gaius Porcius Cato (consul 114 BC), son of Cato Licinianus, consul 114 BC Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus, son of Cato the Elder by his second wife Salonia, (born 154 BC, when his father had completed his eightieth year) Marcus Porcius Cato, son of Cato Salonianus and father of Cato the Younger Cato the Younger (Cato Minor) "Cato of Utica" (Marcus Porcius Catō Uticēnsis 95–46 BC), politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic Marcus Porcius Cato (son of Cato the Younger), fell at the Battle of Philippi, 42 BC Lucius Porcius Cato, son of Cato Salonianus, consul 89 BC, killed during the Social War (91–87 BC) Dionysius Cato, 3rd or 4th century AD author of Distichs of Cato
Others Cato (surname) Cato (given name) Jemmy, also known as "Cato", the leader of the Stono Rebellion, a 1739 slave revolt in South Carolina
Pseudonym Cato, the pseudonym used in the 1720s by the authors of Cato's Letters, i.e. John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon Cato the anti-Federalist, pseudonym for an American author of the Anti-Federalist Papers in the late 1780s, probably the politician George Clinton Cato, the pseudonym for the authors of the 1940s polemic Guilty Men
Fictional characters Cato Fong, Inspector Clouseau's manservant in the Pink Panther movies Cato, a tribute in The Hunger Games Quintus Licinius Cato, in Simon Scarrow’s Eagles of the Empire series Cato Weeksbooth, in the Terra Ignota series by Ada Palmer
Places Australia Cato Bank, the bank that contains the Cato Reef Cato Island, an island in the Cato Reef Cato Reef, a reef in the Coral Sea Cato Trough, a trough in the Coral Sea
United States Cato, Indiana, an unincorporated community Cato, Kansas, an unincorporated community Cato Township, Michigan Cato, Missouri, an unincorporated community Cato (town), New York Cato (village), New York Cato, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community Cato, Tennessee, an unincorporated community in Trousdale County Cato, Wisconsin, a town Cato (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
Literature Distichs of Cato, or simply Cato, a Latin collection of proverbial wisdom and morality by Dionysius Cato from the 3rd or 4th century AD Cato, a Tragedy, an 18th-century drama by Joseph Addison
Ships , three Royal Navy vessels Cato (1800 ship), an English merchant ship sunk on the Great Barrier Reef in 1803 Cato (1807 ship), a merchant ship which foundered in 1841
Technology CATO, an acronym used in rocketry, for Catastrophe At Take Off CATO, an acronym for Catapult Assisted take-off Corazón Artificial Total Ortotópico (Spanish for Orthotopic Total Artificial Heart) invented by Juan Giambruno
Other uses Cato Corporation, an American fashion retailer Cato Networks, an Israeli network security company Cato Institute, an American libertarian think tank Cato, a South Devon Railway Eagle class 4-4-0ST steam locomotive
See also Catto (disambiguation) Kato (disambiguation)