Plato Plato ( ; Greek language, Greek: , ; born BC, died 348/347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical Greece, Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the writte ...

(428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BCE) was a Greek philosopher. Plato may also refer to:

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Plato (comic poet) Plato (also Plato Comicus; Ancient Greek: Πλάτων Κωμικός) was an Athenian comic poet and contemporary of Aristophanes. None of his plays survive intact, but the titles of thirty of them are known, including a ''Hyperbolus'' (c. 420� ...

() *

Plato of Bactria Plato Epiphanes (Ancient Greek: , ''Plátōn ho Epiphanḗs,'' "Plato the God-Manifest") was a Greco-Bactrian king who reigned for a short time in southern Bactria or the Paropamisadae during the mid 2nd century BCE. The style of Plato's coins su ...

(2nd century BCE), Greco-Bactrian king *

Plato (exarch) Plato (; ) was the Exarch of Ravenna from 645 to 649. He is known primarily for his monothelitism, as well as for his opposition to Pope Theodore I, whom he convinced Patriarch Paul II of Constantinople to break with. He is first attested as ex ...

(), Byzantine exarch of Ravenna * Plato II (1737–1812), Metropolitan of Moscow in 1775–1812 * Plato III (born 1993), American rapper *

Plato of Sakkoudion Plato the Studite, also Plato of Sakkoudion (; c. 735 in probably Constantinople – 4 April 814 in Constantinople), was a Byzantine minor official who became a monk in 759. After refusing the metropolitan see of Nicomedia or the headship of a mon ...

(–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 (), American politician * ,

Metropolitan of Moscow This article lists the metropolitans and patriarchs of Moscow, spiritual heads of the Russian Orthodox Church. Since 1308, there have been 59. History The Russian Orthodox Church traces its beginnings to the Christianization of Kievan Rus' ...

in 1745–1754 *

Plato Malozemoff Plato Malozemoff (born Platon Alexandovich Malozyomov, ; 1909–1997) was a Russian-American engineer, manager, and businessman. Early life and education Malozemoff was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on August 28, 1909, and immigrated to the ...

(1909–1997), Russian-American engineer and businessman * Plato E. Shaw (1883–1947), American historian * Plato A. Skouras (1930–2004), American film producer *

Plato Tiburtinus Plato Tiburtinus (, "Plato of Tivoli, Italy, Tivoli"; Floruit, fl. 12th century) was a 12th-century Italian people, Italian mathematician, astronomer and translation, translator who lived in Barcelona from 1116 to 1138. He is best known for transla ...

, 12th-century Italian mathematician, astronomer and translator *

Plato von Ustinov Plato Freiherr von Ustinov (born Platon Grigoryevich Ustinov; ; 1840–1918) was a Russian-born nobleman, naturalised German citizen, was one of the most prolific collectors of Palestinian antiquities. He lived off of his inherited wealth for mo ...

(1840–1918), Russian-born German hotelier *

George Haimsohn George Haimsohn (June 12, 1925 – January 17, 2003) was an American writer and photographer. He was best known for co-writing the book and libretto of the popular 1960s Off-Broadway musical '' Dames at Sea''. He produced male nude and " physique ...

(1925–2003), American photographer

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* Ann Plato (born ), Black American author and educator * Anton-Detlev von Plato (1910–2001), German general *

Burr Plato Burr Plato (–1905) was a Canadian political figure. Of African-American background, he was born into slavery in Logan County, today part of West Virginia. Burr succeeded in escaping enslavement and making his way to Canada in 1856 after an arduo ...

(–1905), Canadian political figure *

Chad Plato Chad Zavier Plato (born 21 April 1998) is a Namibian rugby union player who generally plays as a fullback or wing and represents Namibia internationally. He was included in the Namibian squad for the 2019 Rugby World Cup which is held in Japan ...

(born 1998), Nigerian rugby union player *

Dan Plato Daniel Plato (born 5 October 1960), known as Dan Plato, is a South African politician and a former Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament. He served from June 2011 until October 2018 and again from January 2022 until February 2024. H ...

(born 1960), South African politician *

Dana Plato Dana Michelle Plato (; November 7, 1964 – May 8, 1999) was an American actress. She rose to fame for playing Kimberly Drummond on the sitcom ''Diff'rent Strokes'' (1978–1986), which established her as a teen idol of the late 1970s and ear ...

(1964–1999), American actress *

Fritz Plato Fritz Plato (1858 – 1938) was a German chemist. The unit for specific gravity Relative density, also called specific gravity, is a dimensionless quantity defined as the ratio of the density (mass of a unit volume) of a substance to the dens ...

(1858–1938), German chemist *

Jason Plato Timothy Jason Plato (born 14 October 1967) is a British auto racing, racing driver who last competed in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) for BTC Racing. He has twice been List of BTCC champions, BTCC Champion, in 2001 British Touring ...

(born 1967), British racing driver *

Samuel Plato Samuel M. Plato (1882–1957) was an American architect and General contractor, building contractor in the United States. His work includes federal housing projects and U.S. post offices, as well as private homes, banks, churches, and schools. ...

(1882–1957), American architect

Places

Plato, Saskatchewan Plato is an Unincorporated area#Canada, unincorporated community within the Rural Municipality of Snipe Lake No. 259, Saskatchewan, Canada. The community was named after Plato, Minnesota, which had been the home town of Richard and Agnes Brust, ...

, Canada *

Plato, Magdalena Plato is a town and municipality in Magdalena Department in Colombia. * Area: 1,457 km². * Elevation: 20 meters * Population: 66,362 ** Rural: 18,625 ** Urban: 47,737 * Agricultural products: livestock, corn, beans, tomatoes, yuca, tobacco ...

, Colombia **

Plato Airport Plato Airport is an airport serving the town of Plato in the Magdalena Department of Colombia. The runway is adjacent to the northwest side of the town. See also * * *Transport in Colombia *List of airports in Colombia This is a list of airpor ...

Plato Township, Kane County, Illinois Plato Township is one of sixteen Civil township, townships in Kane County, Illinois, Kane County, Illinois, United States, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 6,166 and it contained 2,182 housing units. It was originally named Homer Tow ...

, United States *

Plato, Indiana Plato is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Bloomfield Township, LaGrange County, Indiana, Bloomfield Township, LaGrange County, Indiana, LaGrange County, Indiana. History A post office opened at Plato in 1890, and remained in o ...

, United States *

Plato, Iowa Plato is an unincorporated community in Cedar County, Iowa, United States. Plato is located at . History The classical Greek philosopher Plato Plato ( ; Greek language, Greek: , ; born BC, died 348/347 BC) was an ancient Greek ...

, United States *

Plato, Minnesota Plato is a city in southeastern McLeod County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 329 at the 2020 census. History A post office called Plato has been in operation since 1858. The city was named for Plato, a Greek philosopher. Geogr ...

, United States *

Plato, Missouri Plato is an incorporated rural village in northwestern Texas County, Missouri, United States. It is located approximately 20 miles northwest of Houston and 10 miles south of Fort Leonard Wood on Route 32. There is a large public school complex l ...

, United States * Plato Island, Antarctica

Science and technology

* ''Plato'' (spider), a genus of ray spider *

PLATO (computer system) PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations), also known as Project Plato and Project PLATO, was the first generalized computer-assisted instruction system. Starting in 1960, it ran on the University of Illinois's ILLIAC I comp ...

, a computer-assisted instruction system *

PLATO (spacecraft) PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) is a space telescope under development by the European Space Agency for launch in 2026. It is the third medium-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision programme and is named after the influential ...

, an ESA space observatory, due to launch in 2026 *

Plato (crater) Plato is a lava-filled lunar impact crater on the Moon. Its diameter is 101 km. It was named after ancient Greek philosopher Plato. It is located on the northeastern shore of the Mare Imbrium, at the western extremity of the Montes Alpes m ...

, a lunar crater * 5451 Plato, a main-belt asteroid * SAM-A-19 Plato, an anti-ballistic missile project *

Plato scale The principal factors that characterize beer are bitterness, the variety of flavours present in the beverage and their intensity, alcohol content, and colour. Standards for those characteristics allow a more objective and uniform determination t ...

, 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 ''Rebel Without a Cause'' is a 1955 American coming-of-age melodrama film, directed by Nicholas Ray. The film stars James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Corey Allen and William Hopper. It is also the film debut of ...

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PLATO WA PLATO WA, an abbreviation of 'People Lobbying Against Teaching Outcomes', was a lobby group led by Marko Vojkovic that was at the forefront of an ultimately successful campaign of parents and teachers against the implementation of Outcomes Based E ...

, or People Lobbying Against Teaching Outcomes, a Western Australian lobby group