Plato

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) ()
* Plato of Bactria (2nd century BCE), Greco-Bactrian king
* Plato (exarch) (), Byzantine exarch of Ravenna
* Plato II (1737–1812), Metropolitan of Moscow in 1775–1812
* Plato III (born 1993), American rapper
* Plato of Sakkoudion (–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
* , List of Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Moscow, 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 ), Black American author and educator
* Anton-Detlev von Plato (1910–2001), German general
* Burr Plato (–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), ''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), ''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

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