Editing Cato

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'''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:

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==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 (vice president)|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 [[List of The Hunger Games characters#74th Hunger Games tributes|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,<!--[[Cato Bank]]--> the bank that contains the [[Cato Reef]]
* Cato Island,<!--[[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, Tennessee|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)|''Cato'' (1800 ship)]], an English merchant ship sunk on the Great Barrier Reef in 1803
* [[Cato (1807 ship)|''Cato'' (1807 ship)]], a merchant ship which foundered in 1841

==Technology==
* CATO, an acronym used in [[Model rocket|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)]]
* {{lookfrom|Cato}}
* {{intitle|Cato}}

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