Plato (disambiguation)

Plato (428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BCE) was a Greek philosopher.

Plato may also refer to:

People

Given name or nickname

• Plato (comic poet) (fl. 420–391 BCE)
• Plato (exarch) (fl. 645–653), Byzantine exarch of Ravenna
• Plato II (1737–1812), Metropolitan of Moscow in 1775–1812
• Plato III (born 1993), American rapper
• Plato of Bactria (2nd century BCE), Greco-Bactrian king
• Plato of Sakkoudion (c. 735–814), Byzantine saint
• Plato Andros (1921–2008), American football player
• Plato Cacheris (1929–2019), American lawyer
• Plato T. Durham (1873–1930), American academic administrator
• Plato Fludd (fl. 1870–1875), American politician
• Plato Malinovsky, Metropolitan of Moscow in 1745–1754
• Plato Malozemoff (1909–1997), Russian-American engineer and businessman
• Plato E. Shaw (1883–1947), American historian
• Plato A. Skouras (1930–2004), American film producer
• Plato Tiburtinus, 12th-century Italian mathematician, astronomer and translator
• Plato von Ustinov (1840–1918), Russian-born German hotelier
• George Haimsohn (1925–2003), American photographer

Surname

• Ann Plato (born c. 1824), Black American author and educator
• Anton-Detlev von Plato (1910–2001), German general
• Burr Plato (c. 1833–1905), Canadian political figure
• Chad Plato (born 1998), Nigerian rugby union player
• Dan Plato (born 1960), South African politician
• Dana Plato (1964–1999), American actress
• Fritz Plato (1858–1938), German chemist
• Jason Plato (born 1967), British racing driver
• Samuel Plato (1882–1957), American architect

Places

• Plato, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Plato, Magdalena, Colombia
  • Plato Airport
• Plato Township, Kane County, Illinois, United States
• Plato, Indiana, United States
• Plato, Iowa, United States
• Plato, Minnesota, United States
• Plato, Missouri, United States
• Plato Island, Antarctica

Science and technology

• Plato (spider), a genus of ray spider
• PLATO (computer system), a computer-assisted instruction system
• PLATO (spacecraft), an ESA space observatory, due to launch in 2026
• Plato (crater), a lunar crater
• 5451 Plato, a main-belt asteroid
• SAM-A-19 Plato, an anti-ballistic missile project
• Plato scale, a scale for the gravity of beer wort and distilled spirits

Other uses

• Plato (film), a 2008 Russian film
• Plato (mythology), a son of Lycaon of Arcadia in Greek mythology
• Plato, a character in Rebel Without a Cause
• PLATO WA, or People Lobbying Against Teaching Outcomes, a Western Australian lobby group

See also

• Play-Doh
• Platon (disambiguation)
• Aflatoon (disambiguation), Arabic form of Plato