Cato
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Cato may be:
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People
- Romans, in the family Porcii:
- Cato the Elder (2nd century BCE), "...the censor", politician
- Cato the Younger (1st century BCE), "...of Utica", politician opposing Julius Caesar
- Suzy Cato (born 1968), New Zealand entertainer
- Kelvin Cato (born 1974), American basketball player
- Pseudonymous authors:
- Cato (1720s), pseudonym for the authors and Commonwealthmen John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, who together wrote a series of early libertarian essays published in the London Journal.
- Cato (late 1780s), pseudonym for an American author of anti-Federalist articles, probably the politician George Clinton.
- Cato (1940s), pseudonym for the authors of Guilty Men:
- Fictional characters:
- Cato Fong, Inspector Clouseau's manservant in the Pink Panther movies.
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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
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Organizations
- The Cato Corporation (Template:Nyse), owners of the CATO women's clothing stores
- Cato Institute, American libertarian think tank
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Other
- Cato, medieval Latin-language schoolbook & moral guide, the Distichs of Cato
- Cato (tragedy), 18th century Addison drama, based upon the life of Cato the Younger
- Cato Neimoidia, Star Wars planet, see List of Star Wars planets (C-D)#Cato Neimoidia
- CATO (rocketry), catastrophic failure of a rocket engine
- CATO (aviation) : Catapult Assisted Take-Off or Catapult Assited Take Off
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