Philo (disambiguation)

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The name Philo can refer to a number of things, including:

• Philo- is a prefix and suffix, and a combining form, derived from the Greek, which means "love of." Philosophy, Philadelphia, etc.

• People:
  • Philon (c. 4th century BC), an Athenian architect
  • Philo the Dialectician (c. 300 BC), an Ancient Greek philosopher
  • Philo of Alexandria (20 BCE - 40 CE), a Jewish philosopher born in Alexandria, Egypt
  • Pseudo-Philo, an anonymous historian in Hebrew whose translated works were compiled with those of Philo of Alexandria
  • Philo of Byblos (64 - 141 CE), a writer of grammatical, lexical and historical works in Greek
  • Philo of Larissa, a Greek philosopher, lived during the 1st century BC
  • Philo of Byzantium, a Greek engineer, lived during the 3rd or 2nd century BC
  • Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) an American inventor
• Places in the United States:
  • Philo, California
  • Philo, Illinois
  • Philo, Ohio
  • Mt. Philo State Park is a small state park in Charlotte, Vermont

• Collegiate literary societies:
  • "Philo" is a term used at Columbia University to refer to a member of the Philolexian Society, or to the organization as a whole.
  • "Philo" is a term used at the University of Pennsylvania to refer to a member of the Philomathean Society, or to the organization as a whole.
• Fictional characters:
  • A character named Philo appeared on Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock television series.
  • A character named Philo is featured in UHF with "Weird Al" Yankovic.
  • Philo Vance was a fictional American detective created by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s who appeared in 12 novels
  • A character named Philo appears in David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.
  • A character named Philo Beddoe appears in the movie Every which way but loose as well as the movie Any which way you can.
• Philo, a philosophy journal.

• Other uses:
  • Philo Records, a record label