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Cato may refer to:

People

• Romans, in the family Porcii:
  • Cato the Elder (2nd century BCE), "...the censor", politician
  • Cato Licinianus, son of Cato the Elder by his first wife Licinia, jurist
  • 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 Licinianus, consul 118 BC, died in Africa in the same year
  • Gaius Porcius Cato, also son of Cato Licinianus, consul 114 BC
  • Marcus Porcius Cato, son of Cato Salonianus and father of Cato the Younger, tribune of the plebs, died when candidate for the praetorship
  • Lucius Porcius Cato, son of Cato Salonianus, consul 89 BC, was killed in battle against the Socii
  • Cato the Younger (1st century BCE), "...of Utica", politician opposing Julius Caesar
  • Marcus Porcius Cato, son of Cato the Younger, fell at the Battle of Philippi, 42 BC
• Suzy Cato (born 1968), New Zealand entertainer
• Kelvin Cato (born 1974), American basketball player
• Henry E. Catto, Jr. Diplomat
• Pseudonymous authors:
  • Cato (1720s), pseudonym for the authors and Commonwealthmen John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, who together wrote a series of early libertarian essays known as Cato's Letters that were published in the London Journal.
  • Cato (late 1780s), pseudonym for an American author of anti-Federalist articles, probably the politician George Clinton.
  • Cato (1940s), pseudonym for the authors of Guilty Men:
    • Michael Foot
    • Frank Owen
    • Peter Howard

• Fictional characters:
  • 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

Organizations

• The Cato Corporation (), owners of the CATO women's clothing stores
• Cato Institute, American libertarian think tank

Other

• Cato, medieval Latin-language schoolbook & moral guide, the Distichs of Cato
• Cato (tragedy), 18th century Addison drama, based upon the life of Cato the Younger
• Cato Neimoidia, Star Wars planet, see List of Star Wars planets (C-D)#Cato Neimoidia
• CATO (rocketry), Catastrophe At Take Off -- the catastrophic failure of a rocket engine
• CATO (aviation), Catapult Assisted Take-Off
• Corazón Artificial Total Ortotópico (spanish for Orthotopic Total Artificial Heart) invented by the uruguayan Dr. Juan Giambruno

See also

• Kato

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