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:

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, 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, 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, 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)
• All pages with titles beginning with Cato
• All pages with titles containing Cato