Cato

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:

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
 * 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

Others

 * Cato (surname)
 * Cato (given name)
 * Jemmy, also known as "Cato", the leader of the Stono Rebellion, a 1739 slave revolt in South Carolina

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
 * Cato, the pseudonym for the authors of the 1940s polemic Guilty Men

Fictional characters

 * Cato Fong, Inspector Clouseau's manservant in the Pink Panther movies
 * Cato, a tribute in The Hunger Games
 * Quintus Licinius Cato, in Simon Scarrow’s Eagles of the Empire series
 * Cato Weeksbooth, in the Terra Ignota series by Ada Palmer

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

United States

 * Cato, Indiana, an unincorporated community
 * Cato, Kansas, an unincorporated community
 * Cato Township, Michigan
 * Cato, Missouri, an unincorporated community
 * Cato (town), New York
 * Cato (village), New York
 * Cato, Tennessee, an unincorporated community in Trousdale County
 * Cato, Wisconsin, a town
 * Cato (community), 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, a Tragedy, an 18th century drama by Joseph Addison

Ships

 * HMS Cato, three Royal Navy vessels
 * Cato (1800 ship), an English merchant ship sunk on the Great Barrier Reef in 1803
 * Cato (1807 ship), a merchant ship which foundered in 1841

Technology

 * CATO, an acronym used in 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

Other uses

 * Cato Corporation, an American fashion retailer
 * Cato Networks, an Israeli network security company
 * Cato Institute, an American libertarian think tank
 * Cato, a South Devon Railway Eagle class 4-4-0ST steam locomotive