Bato

Bato may refer to:

People

Given name

• Bato (Illyrian name)
  • Bato (Dardanian chieftain) (fl. 206–176 BCE), chieftain of the Dardani in Illyria
  • Bato the Daesitiate (fl. 35 BCE–9 CE), chieftain of the Daesitiates in Illyria
  • Bato the Breucian (fl. 8 CE), chieftain of the Breuci in Illyria

Surname

• István Bató (1812–1890), Hungarian businessman
• Joseph Bato (1888–1966), Hungarian artist, film art director and costume designer
• Mohammad Zainoden Bato (1944 or 1945–2021), Filipino Moro revolutionary and politician

Nickname

• Bahrudin Čengić (1931–2007), Bosnian screenwriter and film director
• Ronald dela Rosa (born 1962), Filipino politician and former Director General of the Philippine National Police
• Bato Govedarica (1928–2006), Serbian-American National Basketball Association player

Places

Philippines

• Bato, Camarines Sur, a 3rd class municipality
  • Bato station, a railway station
• Bato, Catanduanes, a 5th class municipality
• Bato, Leyte, a 4th class municipality
• Lake Bato, Camarines Sur

Elsewhere

• Bato or Vato, a small mountain town in Burma, site of a battle in the Burma Campaign
• Bato, Tochigi, Japan, a former town, now part of Nakagawa

Arts and entertainment

• Bato: The General Ronald dela Rosa Story, a 2019 Filipino biographical film
• Bato, a character from the TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender
• "Bato", lead track of the 1994 album Circus by Eraserheads

Other uses

• Bato (culture), pre-Columbian culture of the present Central Chile; for example, see El Quisco
• Dutch ship Staaten Generaal, renamed Bato in 1798

See also

• Bato, Bato, a 1984 studio album by Bosnian singer Lepa Brena