• family name; cato the elder, marcus porcius cato (234 b.c-149 b.c.), roman statesman and reputed soldier, writer who wrote the first history of rome; cato the younger, marcus porcius cato uticencis (95 b.c.- 46 b.c.), statesman in the late roman republic, great-grandson of cato the elder; village in the state of new york (usa)
