Plato (disambiguation)

Plato (428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BCE) was a Greek philosopher.

Plato may also refer to:

Given name or nickname

 * Plato (comic poet)
 * Plato (exarch), Byzantine exarch of Ravenna
 * Plato II (1737–1812), Metropolitan of Moscow in 1775–1812
 * Plato III (born 1993), American rapper
 * Plato of Bactria (2nd century BCE), Greco-Bactrian king
 * Plato of Sakkoudion (c. 735–814), Byzantine saint
 * Plato Andros (1921–2008), American football player
 * Plato Cacheris (1929–2019), American lawyer
 * Plato T. Durham (1873–1930), American academic administrator
 * Plato Fludd, American politician
 * Plato Malinovsky, Metropolitan of Moscow in 1745–1754
 * Plato Malozemoff (1909–1997), Russian-American engineer and businessman
 * Plato E. Shaw (1883–1947), American historian
 * Plato A. Skouras (1930–2004), American film producer
 * Plato Tiburtinus, 12th-century Italian mathematician, astronomer and translator
 * Plato von Ustinov (1840–1918), Russian-born German hotelier
 * George Haimsohn (1925–2003), American photographer

Surname

 * Ann Plato (born c. 1824), Black American author and educator
 * Anton-Detlev von Plato (1910–2001), German general
 * Burr Plato (c. 1833–1905), Canadian political figure
 * Chad Plato (born 1998), Nigerian rugby union player
 * Dan Plato (born 1960), South African politician
 * Dana Plato (1964–1999), American actress
 * Fritz Plato (1858–1938), German chemist
 * Jason Plato (born 1967), British racing driver
 * Samuel Plato (1882–1957), American architect

Places

 * Plato, Saskatchewan, Canada
 * Plato, Magdalena, Colombia
 * Plato Airport
 * Plato Township, Kane County, Illinois, United States
 * Plato, Indiana, United States
 * Plato, Iowa, United States
 * Plato, Minnesota, United States
 * Plato, Missouri, United States
 * Plato Island, Antarctica

Science and technology

 * Plato (spider), a genus of ray spider
 * PLATO (computer system), a computer-assisted instruction system
 * PLATO (spacecraft), an ESA space observatory, due to launch in 2026
 * Plato (crater), a lunar crater
 * 5451 Plato, a main-belt asteroid
 * SAM-A-19 Plato, an anti-ballistic missile project
 * Plato scale, a scale for the gravity of beer wort and distilled spirits

Other uses

 * Plato (film), a 2008 Russian film
 * Plato (mythology), a son of Lycaon of Arcadia in Greek mythology
 * Plato, a character in Rebel Without a Cause
 * PLATO WA, or People Lobbying Against Teaching Outcomes, a Western Australian lobby group