# 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