Plato (428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BCE) was a Greek philosopher.

Plato may also refer to:

People

Given name or nickname

  • Plato (comic poet) ()
  • Plato of Bactria (2nd century BCE), Greco-Bactrian king
  • Plato (exarch) (), Byzantine exarch of Ravenna
  • Plato II (1737–1812), Metropolitan of Moscow in 1775–1812
  • Plato III (born 1993), American rapper
  • Plato of Sakkoudion (–814), Byzantine saint
  • Plato Andros (1921–2008), American football player
  • Plato Cacheris (1929–2019), American lawyer
  • Plato T. Durham (1873–1930), American academic administrator
  • Plato Fludd (), American politician
  • , Metropolitan of Moscow in 1745–1754
  • Plato Malozemoff (1909–1997), Russian-American engineer and businessman
  • Plato E. Shaw (1883–1947), American historian
  • Plato A. Skouras (1930–2004), American film producer
  • Plato Tiburtinus, 12th-century Italian mathematician, astronomer and translator
  • Plato von Ustinov (1840–1918), Russian-born German hotelier
  • George Haimsohn (1925–2003), American photographer

Surname

  • Ann Plato (born ), Black American author and educator
  • Anton-Detlev von Plato (1910–2001), German general
  • Burr Plato (–1905), Canadian political figure
  • Chad Plato (born 1998), Nigerian rugby union player
  • Dan Plato (born 1960), South African politician
  • Dana Plato (1964–1999), American actress
  • Fritz Plato (1858–1938), German chemist
  • Jason Plato (born 1967), British racing driver
  • Samuel Plato (1882–1957), American architect

Places

  • Plato, Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Plato, Magdalena, Colombia
  • Plato Airport
  • Plato Township, Kane County, Illinois, United States
  • Plato, Indiana, United States
  • Plato, Iowa, United States
  • Plato, Minnesota, United States
  • Plato, Missouri, United States
  • Plato Island, Antarctica

Science and technology

  • Plato (spider), a genus of ray spider
  • PLATO (computer system), a computer-assisted instruction system
  • PLATO (spacecraft), an ESA space observatory, due to launch in 2027
  • Plato (crater), a lunar crater
  • 5451 Plato, a main-belt asteroid
  • SAM-A-19 Plato, an anti-ballistic missile project
  • Plato scale, a scale for the gravity of beer wort and distilled spirits

Commerce

  • Platō Coffee, a major coffeehouse chain in South Africa

Other uses

  • Plato (film), a 2008 Russian film
  • Plato (mythology), a son of Lycaon of Arcadia in Greek mythology
  • Plato, a character in Rebel Without a Cause
  • PLATO WA, or People Lobbying Against Teaching Outcomes, a Western Australian lobby group

See also

  • Play-Doh
  • Platon (disambiguation)
  • Aflatoon (disambiguation), Arabic form of Plato