Proto

Proto or PROTO may refer to:

Language

• Proto-, an English prefix meaning "first"

Media

• Proto (magazine), an American science magazine
• Radio Proto, a radio station in Cyprus

Music

• Proto (Holly Herndon album), 2019
• Proto (Leo O'Kelly album), 2002
• Proto (band), a progressive rock band from Memphis, Tennessee

Organizations

• 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

• Non-fictional
• Frank Proto (born 1941), American composer and bassist
• Ludovic Proto (born 1965), French boxer
• Neil Thomas Proto (born 1945), American lawyer, teacher, lecturer, and author
• Silvio Proto (born 1983), 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
• Proto Man, a character in the Mega Man franchise

Science and technology

• Proto-, the prefix, as used in taxonomy.
• Siebe Gorman Proto, a type of rebreather breathing set
• SEAT Proto, concept cars
• PROTO (fusion reactor)

See also

• Protos (disambiguation)