Proto or PROTO may refer to:
Language
edit- Proto-, an English prefix meaning "first"
Media
edit- Proto (magazine), an American science magazine
- Radio Proto in Cyprus
Music
edit- Proto (Holly Herndon album), 2019
- Proto (Leo O'Kelly album), 2002
- Proto (band), a progressive rock band from Memphis, Tennessee
Organizations
edit- Proto (tools), a tool company (formerly Plomb Tools), now a division of Stanley Black & Decker
- Proto Motors, a South Korean sports car manufacturer and refitter
- Proto Records, a British record company active in the 1980s; see Barry Evangeli
- Proto (paintball), a paintball equipment manufacturing company
People
edit- Non-fictional
- Frank Proto, American composer and bassist
- Ludovic Proto (born 1965), French boxer
- Neil Thomas Proto (born 1945), American lawyer, teacher, lecturer, and author
- Silvio Proto, Belgian goalkeeper
- Proto (see Protus and Hyacinth), Christian martyr during the persecution of Valerian I
- Fictional
- Proto, one of the Nereids in Greek mythology
- Proto (Ghost in the Shell), a fictional character in Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell anime and manga
- Proto, a more advanced prototype of the Prophetbot from the video game OneShot
Science and technology
edit- Proto-, the prefix, as used in taxonomy.
- Siebe Gorman Proto, a type of rebreather breathing set
- SEAT Proto, concept cars
- PROTO (fusion reactor)