Cato (given name)
Cato is the given name of:
- Cato Alexander (1780–1858), American emancipated slave and bar owner, considered by some to be "America's first celebrity bartender"
 - Cato Erstad (born 1964), Norwegian footballer
 - Cato Maximilian Guldberg (1836–1902), Norwegian mathematician and chemist
 - Cato Guhnfeldt (born 1951), Norwegian journalist and non-fiction writer
 - Cato Hansen (born 1988), Norwegian footballer
 - Cato André Hansen (born 1972), 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 (born 1979), American former National Football League player
 - Cato T. Laurencin (born 1959), 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 (died 1805), African-American slave who became a missionary to Sierra Leone
 - Cato Schiøtz (born 1948), Norwegian barrister and former judge
 - Cato Sells (1859–1948), American politician, lawyer and commissioner at the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1913 to 1921
 - Cato Sundberg (born 1981), Norwegian singer, guitarist and songwriter
 - Cato Wadel (1936−2011), 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