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,<!--Cato Bank--> the bank that contains the Cato Reef
  • Cato Island,<!--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)