Plato (disambiguation)
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Plato was a Greek philosopher.
Plato may also refer to:
- Plato (comic poet), an Athenian comic poet
- Plato of Bactria, a Hellenistic king in Afghanistan
- PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operation) was a pioneering mainframe-based time-sharing system for Computer assisted instruction
- PLATO (Package for Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals), a computational chemistry software package
- Dana Plato, the actress who played Kimberly Drummond on the television series Diff'rent Strokes
- Plato (spider) is also a spider genus (Theridiosomatidae).
- Plato (crater), a lunar crater named after the philosopher
- "Plato" is Russian for "plateau" in some Russian placenames
- Plato scale, the scale for measuring the gravity of beer wort and distilled spirits
- PLATO stands for 'People Lobbying Against Teaching Outcomes', a group against Outcomes Based Education
- Plato was an intellectual soldier, who often wrote long philosophical treatises on fences, in the comic strip Beetle Bailey
- Plato, a Great Western Railway 0-6-0ST steam locomotive (GWR Banking Class)
- Jason Plato, British racing car driver