Platon

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

Given name

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  • 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

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See also

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