# Proto

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**Proto** or **PROTO** may refer to:

## Language

- Proto-, an [English prefix](/source/English_prefix) meaning "first"

## Media

- [*Proto* (magazine)](/source/Proto_(magazine)), an American science magazine
- [Radio Proto](/source/Radio_Proto), a radio station in Cyprus

## Music

- [*Proto* (Holly Herndon album)](/source/Proto_(Holly_Herndon_album)), 2019
- [*Proto* (Leo O'Kelly album)](/source/Proto_(Leo_O'Kelly_album)), 2002
- [Proto (band)](/source/Proto_(band)), a progressive rock band from Memphis, Tennessee

## Organizations

- [Proto (tools)](/source/Proto_(tools)), a tool company (formerly Plomb Tools), now a division of Stanley Black & Decker
- [Proto Motors](/source/Proto_Motors), a South Korean sports car manufacturer and refitter
- Proto Records, a British record company active in the 1980s; see [Barry Evangeli](/source/Barry_Evangeli)
- [Proto (paintball)](/source/Proto_(paintball)), a paintball equipment manufacturing company

## People

- Non-fictional - [Frank Proto](/source/Frank_Proto) (born 1941), American composer and bassist - [Ludovic Proto](/source/Ludovic_Proto) (born 1965), French boxer - [Neil Thomas Proto](/source/Neil_Thomas_Proto) (born 1945), American lawyer, teacher, lecturer, and author - [Silvio Proto](/source/Silvio_Proto) (born 1983), Belgian goalkeeper - Proto (see [Protus and Hyacinth](/source/Protus_and_Hyacinth)), Christian martyr during the persecution of Valerian I
- Fictional - Proto, one of the [Nereids](/source/Nereids) in Greek mythology - [Proto (*Ghost in the Shell*)](/source/Proto_(Ghost_in_the_Shell)), a fictional character in Masamune Shirow's *Ghost in the Shell* anime and manga - Proto, a more advanced prototype of the Prophetbot from the video game *[OneShot](/source/OneShot_(video_game))* - [Proto Man](/source/Proto_Man), a character in the *Mega Man* franchise

## Science and technology

- Proto-, the prefix, [as used in taxonomy](/source/List_of_commonly_used_taxonomic_affixes).
- [Siebe Gorman Proto](/source/Siebe_Gorman_Proto), a type of rebreather breathing set
- [SEAT Proto](/source/SEAT_Proto), concept cars
- [PROTO (fusion reactor)](/source/PROTO_(fusion_reactor))

## See also

- [Protos (disambiguation)](/source/Protos_(disambiguation))

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