Plato was a Greek philosopher. Plato may also refer to:

PLATO stands for 'People Lobbying Against Teaching Outcomes', a group against Outcomes Based Education

PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operation) was a pioneering mainframe-based time-sharing system for Computer assisted instruction

Plato was an intellectual soldier, who often wrote long philosophical treatises on fences, in the comic strip Beetle Bailey

Dana Plato, the actress who played Kimberly Drummond on the television series Diff'rent Strokes

Jason Plato, British racing car driver

Plato (crater), a lunar crater named after the philosopher

Samuel Plato, 20th-century African American

Plato, a Great Western Railway 0-6-0ST steam locomotive (GWR Banking Class)

Plato (spider) is also a spider genus (Theridiosomatidae).

Plato's Retreat, A 1970s era club

Plato (footballer), A Brazilian soccer player

Plato of Bactria, a Hellenistic king in Afghanistan

Plato (comic poet), an Athenian comic poet

Plato scale, the scale for measuring the gravity of beer wort and distilled spirits

PLATO (Package for Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals), a computational chemistry software package

Nikolaos Platon, a Greek archaeologist