Cato (given name)
Cato is the given name of:
- Cato Alexander, American emancipated slave and bar owner, considered by some to be "America's first celebrity bartender"
- Cato Erstad, Norwegian footballer
- Cato Maximilian Guldberg, Norwegian mathematician and chemist
- Cato Guhnfeldt, Norwegian journalist and non-fiction writer
- Cato Hansen, Norwegian footballer
- Cato André Hansen, Norwegian football coach and former player
- Cato (spy), Cato Howe, a slave who was an American Patriot spy and courier during the American Revolutionary War
- Cato June, American former National Football League player
- Cato T. Laurencin, American engineer, physician, scientist, innovator and professor
- Cato Nordbeck, Norwegian former professional racing cyclist, winner of the Norwegian National Road Race Championship in 1965
- Cato Perkins, African-American slave who became a missionary to Sierra Leone
- Cato Schiøtz, Norwegian barrister and former judge
- Cato Sells, American politician, lawyer and commissioner at the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1913 to 1921
- Cato Sundberg, Norwegian singer, guitarist and songwriter
- Cato Wadel, Norwegian social anthropologist
- Cato West, American military officer and politician, Secretary of the Mississippi Territory and acting territorial governor of Mississippi in 1804 and 1805