Bato

Bato may refer to:

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

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