Platon is a masculine given name and surname which may refer to:

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* Plato (exarch) (), romanized as Plátōn, Exarch of Ravenna in the Byzantine Empire from 645 to 649 * Platon, obscure ancient Greek writer of uncertain date, whose attributed works share a name with those of Aristagoras (poet) * Platon Atanacković (1788–1867), Serbian writer, linguist, patron of Serb culture and Eastern Orthodox bishop of the Eparchy of Bačka *

Platon Chirnoagă Platon Chirnoagă (October 24, 1894 – March 29, 1974) was a Romanian brigadier-general during World War II. Chirnoagă was born in 1894 in Poduri, Bacău County, one of eight children of Gheorghe Chirnoagă, a teacher, and his wife, Olimpia; o ...

(1894–1974), Romanian brigadier-general during World War II * Platon Drakoulis (1858–1942), Greek socialist politician * Platon Gamaleya (1766–1817), Russian Empire naval officer and navigation scientist of Ukrainian origin * Platon Ioseliani (1810–1875), Georgian historian and Russian Empire civil servant * Platon Ivanov (1863–1939), Russian-Finnish civil servant * Platon Jovanović (1874–1941), better known as Platon of Banja Luka, Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Banja Luka and hieromartyr * Platon Karsavin (1854–1922), Russian Imperial Ballet dancer and dance teacher * Platon Kerzhentsev (1881–1940), Soviet state and party official, revolutionary, diplomat, journalist, historian, playwright and theatre and arts theorist * Platon Kostiuk (1924–2010), Soviet and Ukrainian physiologist, neurobiologist, electrophysiologist and biophysicist * Platon Krivoshchyokov (born 1968), Russian former footballer * Platon Kulbusch (1869–1919), Estonian Orthodox Bishop of Tallinn and All Estonia *

Platon Lebedev Platon Leonidovich Lebedev (Russian: Плато́н Леони́дович Ле́бедев; born 29 November 1956) is a Russian businessman and former CEO of Group Menatep. He was convicted of tax evasion, money laundering and embezzlement by ...

(born 1956), Russian businessman * Platon Levshin (1737–1812), Metropolitan of Moscow * Platon Maiboroda (1918–1989), Soviet and Ukrainian composer and educator * Platon Obukhov (born 1968), Russian journalist, writer, translator and painter convicted of spying for the UK * Platon Oyunsky, pen name of Platon Sleptsov (1893—1939), Yakut Soviet writer, philologist and bureaucrat * Platon Poretsky (1846–1907), Russian Imperial astronomer, mathematician and logician * Platon Rozhdestvensky (1866–1934), first American Orthodox archbishop *

Platon Zakharchuk Platon Platonovich Zakharchuk (; born 10 September 1972) is a Russian professional Association football, football coach and a former player. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1989 for FC Torpedo Naberezhnye Chelny. ...

(born 1972), Russian football coach and former player * Platon Zubov (1767–1822), last of Catherine the Great's favorites and the most powerful man in the Russian Empire during the last years of her reign * Platon (photographer) (born 1968), Greek-English photographer Platon Antoniou

Surname

* Alina Platon (), Romanian sprint canoer * Charles Platon (1886–1944), French admiral and supporter of Vichy France * Clark Platon (1930–2025), Brazilian politician * Eugene Platon (born 1959), Russian yachtsman * Nikolaos Platon (1909–1992), Greek archaeologist * Ruslan Platon (born 1982), Ukrainian footballer *

Veaceslav Platon Veaceslav Platon (born 24 January 1973) is a Moldovan businessman and former member of the Parliament of Moldova from 2009 to 2010. He also holds Russian citizenship.

(born 1973), Moldovan businessman and politician convicted for money laundering, but later acquitted

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