Cato

Cato may refer to:

People

• Romans, in the family Porcii:
  • Cato the Elder or "the Censor" (Marcus Porcius Cato 234BC–149BC), 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, 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 of Utica" or "Cato Minor" (Marcus Porcius Catō Uticēnsis 95BC–46BC), politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic, remembered for his lengthy conflict with Gaius Julius Caesar, and moral integrity
          • Marcus Porcius Cato (II), son of Cato the Younger, fell at the Battle of Philippi, 42 BC
      • Lucius Porcius Cato, son of Cato Salonianus, consul 89 BC

• Suzy Cato (born 1968), New Zealand entertainer
• Kelvin Cato (born 1974), American basketball player
• Henry E. Catto, Jr. diplomat
• John Cyril Cato (born 1889, died 1971), Australian photographer, portraitist and author, renowned historian of Australian photography
• Cato the anti-Federalist, pseudonym for an American author of anti-Federalist articles in the late 1780s, probably the politician George Clinton
• Cato, the pseudonym for the authors of the 1940s novel Guilty Men; Michael Foot, Frank Owen, Peter Howard
• Cato Fong, Inspector Clouseau's manservant in the Pink Panther movies

Places

• Cato (village), New York, American settlement, and
• Cato (town), New York, governmental unit including part of it
• Cato Island, an island in the Coral Sea Islands in Queensland, Australia

Other

• Cato's Letters, a series of libertarian essays written in the 1720's
• Cato Institute, American libertarian think tank
• Distichs of Cato or simply Cato, a medieval Latin-language schoolbook & moral guide
• Cato, 18th century drama by Joseph Addison, based on the life of Cato the Younger
• Cato Neimoidia, a planet in the Star Wars setting
• CATO (rocketry), Catastrophe At Take Off -- the catastrophic failure of a rocket engine
• CATO, an acronym for Catapult Assisted take off
• Corazón Artificial Total Ortotópico (Spanish for Orthotopic Total Artificial Heart) invented by Dr. Juan Giambruno
• Cato, a South Devon Railway Eagle class 4-4-0ST steam locomotive

See also

• Kato