Platon

For the Russian electronic toll collection system, see Platon (toll system). For the village in Poland, see Platoń.

Platon is a masculine given name and surname which may refer to:

Given name

• Plato (exarch) (fl. 645–653), romanized as Plátōn, Exarch of Ravenna in the Byzantine Empire from 645 to 649
• Platon, obscure ancient Greek writer of uncertain date, whose attributed works share a name with those of Aristagoras (poet)
• Platon Atanacković (1788–1867), Serbian writer, linguist, patron of Serb culture and Eastern Orthodox bishop of the Eparchy of Bačka
• Platon Chirnoagă (1894–1974), Romanian brigadier-general during World War II
• Platon Drakoulis (1858–1942), Greek socialist politician
• Platon Yakovlevich Gamaleya (1766–1817), Russian Empire naval officer and navigation scientist of Ukrainian origin
• Platon Ioseliani (1810–1875), Georgian historian and Russian Empire civil servant
• Platon Ivanovich Ivanov (1863–1939), Russian-Finnish civil servant
• Platon Karsavin (1854–1922), Russian Imperial Ballet dancer and dance teacher
• Platon Kerzhentsev (1881–1940), Soviet state and party official, revolutionary, diplomat, journalist, historian, playwright and theatre and arts theorist
• Platon Kostiuk (1924–2010), Soviet and Ukrainian physiologist, neurobiologist, electrophysiologist and biophysicist
• Platon Krivoshchyokov (born 1968), Russian former footballer
• Platon Kulbusch (1869–1919), Estonian Orthodox Church bishop of Tallinn and all Estonia
• Platon Lebedev (born 1956), Russian businessman
• Platon Levshin (1737–1812), Metropolitan of Moscow
• Platon Maiboroda (1918–1989), Soviet and Ukrainian composer and educator
• Platon Obukhov (born 1968), Russian journalist, writer, translator and painter convicted of spying for the UK
• Platon Oyunsky, pen name of Platon Sleptsov (1893—1939), Yakut Soviet writer, philologist and bureaucrat
• Platon Poretsky (1846–1907), Russian Imperial astronomer, mathematician and logician
• Platon Zakharchuk (born 1972), Russian football coach and former player
• Platon Zubov (1767–1822), last of Catherine the Great's favorites and the most powerful man in the Russian Empire during the last years of her reign
• Platon (photographer) (born 1968), Greek-English photographer Platon Antoniou

Surname

• Alina Platon (fl. 2005–2006), Romanian sprint canoer
• Charles Platon (1886–1944), French admiral and supporter of Vichy France
• Eugene Platon (born 1959), Russian yachtsman
• Ruslan Platon (born 1982), Ukrainian footballer
• Nikolaos Platon (1909–1992), Greek archaeologist
• Veaceslav Platon (born 1973), Moldovan businessman and politician convicted for money laundering, but later acquitted

See also

• Plato (disambiguation)