Mato (name)
Mato is a Slavic male given name , which occurs particularly in Croatian and Lower Sorbian , as well as a family name . Mato is a diminutive of Matej or Matija , both of which are Slavic forms of the first name Matthias .
Well-known namesake
First name
- Mato Damjanović (1927–2011), Croatian chess grandmaster
- Mato Ergović (1927–2013), Yugoslav or Croatian actor
- Mato Jajalo (* 1988), Croatian football player
- Mato Kosyk (1853–1940), Lower Sorbian poet
- Celestin Mato Medović (1857-1920), Croatian painter
- Mato Mlađenović (* 1978), Croatian ice hockey player
- Mato Neretljak (* 1979), Croatian football player
- Mato Vodopić (1816–1893 ibid), Roman Catholic priest, writer and naturalist and Bishop of Dubrovnik (1882–1893)
family name
- Ana Mato (* 1959), Spanish sociologist and politician, member of the European Parliament
- Gabriel Mato Adrover (* 1961), Spanish politician, MEP
- Jakup Mato (1934-2005), Albanian literary critic
- José Luis Sanmartín Mato (* 1990), known as Joselu , Spanish football player
- Sára Mátó (* 2000), Hungarian hurdler
- Sulejman Mato (* 1941), Albanian writer