Philo, a character who appears in David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Philo of Alexandria (20 BCE - 40 CE), a Jewish philosopher born in Alexandria, Egypt

Philo Farnsworth (1906 – 1971) an American inventor

Philo, a character who appeared on Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock television series

Philo, a character featured in UHF (film) with "Weird Al" Yankovic

"Philo", a term used at Columbia University to refer to a member of the Philolexian Society, or to the organization as a whole

Philo Vance, a fictional American detective created by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s and who appeared in 12 novels

Philo of Larissa, a Greek philosopher, lived during the 1st century BC

"Philo", a term used at the University of Pennsylvania to refer to a member of the Philomathean Society, or to the organization as a whole

Philo, Illinois

Mt. Philo State Park, a small park in Charlotte, Vermont

Philo, Ohio

Philo of Byzantium, a Greek engineer, lived during the 3rd or 2nd century BC

Pseudo-Philo, an anonymous historian in Hebrew whose translated works were compiled with those of Philo of Alexandria

Philo of Byblos (64 - 141 CE), a writer of grammatical, lexical and historical works in Greek

Philon (c. 4th century BC), an Athenian architect

Philo the Dialectician (c. 300 BC), an Ancient Greek philosopher

Philo, California

Philo (journal), a philosophy journal

Philo Records, a record label

Philo- (see -phil-), a prefix and suffix, and a combining form, derived from the Greek, which means "love of" (e.g. Philosophy or Philadelphia)

Philo Beddoe, a character who appears in the movies Every Which Way But Loose (film) and Any Which Way You Can