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, 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, remembered for his lengthy conflict with Gaius Julius Caesar, and moral integrity ***** 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'', previously assumed to have been the work of Cato the Elder, or even possibly Cato the Younger

Surname

* Cordell Cato (born 1992), Trinidadian footballer * Diomedes Cato (c. 1560–1565–1618), Italian-born Polish composer * Molly Scott Cato (born 1963), British green politician and economist * Suzy Cato (born 1968), New Zealand entertainer * Kelvin Cato (born 1974), American basketball player * Noah Cato (born 1988), English rugby union player * Rakeem Cato (born 1992), American football player * Roland Cato (born 1997), Grenadian cricketer * George Christopher Cato (born 1814), first mayor of Durban, South Africa

Slaves

* Cato (American Revolution), slave who was an American Patriot spy and courier during the American Revolutionary War * "Cato" aka Jemmy, the leader of the Stono Rebellion

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 (vice president), George Clinton * Cato, the pseudonym for the authors of the 1940s polemic ''Guilty Men''

Fictional

* Cato Fong, Inspector Clouseau's manservant in the Pink Panther movies * Cato, a List of The Hunger Games characters#74th Hunger Games tributes, character in ''The Hunger Games'' * Quintus Licinius Cato, a character from Simon Scarrow’s ''Eagles of the Empire'' series * Cato Weeksbooth, a character from the ''Terra Ignota'' series by Ada Palmer * Sally Cato MacDougall, a character in the novel ''Auntie Mame'' and its film adaptation

Places

Australia

* Cato Bank, the bank that contains the Cato Reef * Cato Island, an island in the Cato Reef * Cato Reef, a reef in the Coral Sea * Cato Trough, a trough in the Coral Sea

South Africa

* Cato Manor, a suburb of Durban * Cato Ridge, a town in KwaZulu-Natal

United States

* Cato, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Cato, Kansas, an unincorporated community * Cato Township, Michigan * Cato, Missouri * Cato (town), New York * Cato (village), New York * Cato, Tennessee, an unincorporated community in Trousdale County, Tennessee, Trousdale County * Cato, Wisconsin, a town * Cato (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community * Cato Falls, 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's Letters'', a 1720s series of classical liberal essays by British writers John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon * ''Cato, a Tragedy'', an 18th century drama by Joseph Addison

Organizations

* Cato Corporation, an American fashion retailer * Cato Institute, an American libertarian think tank

Vehicles

* Cato (1800 ship), ''Cato'' (1800 ship), an English ship sunk on the Great Barrier Reef in 1803 * HMS Cato (J16), sunk in 1944, it was an Auk-class minesweeper * Cato, a South Devon Railway Eagle class 4-4-0ST steam locomotive

Technology

* CATO, an acronym used in Model rocket, 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