{{wiktionarypar|Cato|cato|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:
{{TOC right}} ==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 (consul 114 BC), 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
==Places== ===Australia=== * Cato Bank,<!--Cato Bank--> the bank that contains the Cato Reef * Cato Island,<!--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, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community * 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
==See also== * Catto (disambiguation) * Kato (disambiguation) * {{lookfrom|Cato}} * {{intitle|Cato}}
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