Plato (disambiguation)

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

Plato may also refer to:

People

• Plato (comic poet) (fl. 420–391 BCE)
• Plato (exarch) (fl. 645–653), Byzantine exarch of Ravenna
• Plato of Sakkoudion (735–814), Byzantine saint
• Plato I, Metropolitan of Moscow in 1745–1754
• Platon Levshin (Plato II), Metropolitan of Moscow in 1775–1812
• Dana Plato (1964–1999), American actress
• Jason Plato (born 1967), British racing driver
• Plato, a son of Lycaon in Greek mythology
• Plato, a character in the film Rebel Without a Cause

Places

• Plato, Indiana
• Plato, Iowa
• Plato, Magdalena, Colombia
• Plato, Minnesota
• Plato, Missouri
• Plato Township, Kane County, Illinois
• Plato, Saskatchewan

Science and technology

• PLATO (computer system), a pioneering computer-assisted instruction system
• PLATO (Package for Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals), a computational chemistry software package
• PLATO (spacecraft), a planned space observatory
• Plato (spider), a genus in family (Theridiosomatidae)
• Plato scale, for measuring the gravity of beer wort and distilled spirits
• Plato (crater), on the Moon.

Other uses

• Plato, Spanish for dish

See also

• Play-Doh
• Platon (disambiguation)
• "Plato's Stepchildren", an episode of the original Star Trek series
• Plato's Retreat, a club that existed from 1977 to 1985