Cato may refer to:

People

• Romans, in the family Porcii:
  • Cato the Elder or "the Censor" (Marcus Porcius Cato 234BC–149BC), 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 of Utica" or "Cato Minor" (Marcus Porcius Catō Uticēnsis 95BC–46BC), politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic, remembered for his lengthy conflict with Gaius Julius Caesar, and moral integrity
          • Marcus Porcius Cato (II), 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 (91–88 BC)

• Suzy Cato (born 1968), New Zealand entertainer
• Kelvin Cato (born 1974), American basketball player
• Henry E. Catto, Jr. diplomat
• John Cyril Cato (born 1889, died 1971), Australian photographer, portraitist and author, renowned historian of Australian photography
• Cato the anti-Federalist, pseudonym for an American author of anti-Federalist articles in the late 1780s, probably the politician George Clinton
• Cato, the pseudonym for the authors of the 1940s novel Guilty Men; Michael Foot, Frank Owen, Peter Howard
• Cato Fong, Inspector Clouseau's manservant in the Pink Panther movies
• Cato Zahl Pedersen, norwegian disabled sportsman who is going to climb Mount Everest in May/June 2007 without arms

Marcus Porcius Cato (Latin: M·PORCIVS·M·F·CATO[1]) (234 BC, Tusculum–149 BC) was a Roman statesman, surnamed the Censor (Censorius), Sapiens, Priscus, or the Elder (Major), to distinguish him from Cato the Younger (his great-grandson). ... Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus or Cato Licinianus (?–c. ... Gaius Porcius Cato (2nd century BCE), was son of Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus, consul 114 BC, obtained Macedonia as his province, and fought unsuccessfully against the Scordisci. ... Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus or Cato Salonianus was the son of Cato the Elder by his second wife Salonia. ... Marcus Porcius Catō Uticēnsis (95 BC–46 BC), known as Cato the Younger (Cato Minor) to distinguish him from his great-grandfather Cato the Elder, was a politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic, and a follower of the Stoic philosophy. ... Marcus Porcius Cato, son of Cato the Younger by his first marriage to Atilia. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Suzy Cato, born June 20, 1968, is a New Zealand childrens entertainer living in Auckland. ... Kelvin T. Cato (born August 26, 1974 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a professional basketball player in the NBA. He is currently playing center for the Detroit Pistons. ... Henry E. Cato, Jr. ... Cato was the pseudonym for an anti-federalist who wrote essays during the ratification debates in the United States of America during the 1780s. ... Guilty Men was a polemic book published in the summer of 1940 in the United Kingdom, which attacked the leading politicians of the 1930s for failing to confront Nazi Germany. ... The Pink Panther is a series of comedy films featuring the bumbling French police detective Jacques Clouseau. ... The term disability, as it is applied to humans, refers to any condition that impedes the completion of daily tasks using traditional methods. ... “Everest” redirects here. ...

Places

• Cato (village), New York, American settlement, and
• Cato (town), New York, governmental unit including part of it
• Cato Island, an island in the Coral Sea Islands in Queensland, Australia

Cato is a village located in Cayuga County, New York. ... Cato is a town located in Cayuga County, New York. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Other

• Cato's Letters, a series of libertarian essays written in the 1720's
• Cato Institute, American libertarian think tank
• Distichs of Cato or simply Cato, a medieval Latin-language schoolbook & moral guide
• Cato, 18th century drama by Joseph Addison, based on the life of Cato the Younger
• Cato Neimoidia, a planet in the Star Wars setting
• CATO (rocketry), Catastrophe At Take Off -- the catastrophic failure of a rocket engine
• CATO, an acronym for Catapult Assisted take off
• Corazón Artificial Total Ortotópico (Spanish for Orthotopic Total Artificial Heart) invented by Dr. Juan Giambruno
• Cato, a South Devon Railway Eagle class 4-4-0ST steam locomotive

The essays called Catos Letters were written by two Englishmen, concealing their identities with the honored ancient Roman name of Cato. ... The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Institutes stated mission is to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and peace by seeking greater involvement of the... The Distichs of Cato (Latin: Catonis Disticha, most famously known simply as Cato), is a Latin collection of proverbial wisdom and morality by an unknown author named Dionysius Cato from the 3rd or 4th century AD. The Cato was the most popular medieval schoolbook for teaching Latin, prized not only... Joseph Addison, the Kit-cat portrait, circa 1703–1712, by Godfrey Kneller. ... // Main article: Caamas Caamas is a toxic planet in the Cirius System that was formerly a highly populated habitable world, until the Empire bombarded it shortly after the Clone Wars, killing nearly all the inhabitants of the planet. ... Any system for helping aircraft into the air (as opposed to strictly under its own power), is known as assisted take off. ... Uruguayan scientists testing the CATO in a calf Dr. Juan Giambruno (born February 23, 1950 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan cardiac surgeon at Universidad de la República, Montevideo. ... The Eagle class were sixteen 4-4-0 saddle tank broad gauge locomotives operated on the South Devon Railway, Cornwall Railway and associated adjacent railways. ...

See also

• Kato