Cato Explained

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

, 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