Ramón Gato (born (1973-11-16)16 November 1973) is a Cuban former volleyball player who played for the Cuban men's national volleyball team.

Gato competed with the national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, finishing seventh.

[1] He won bronze medals with the Cuban team at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata and the 1998 FIVB World Championship in Japan.

[2] In 2001, Gato was one of six players on the Cuban men's national volleyball team to leave a hotel they stayed at in Flanders for a tournament, and from there rode a train to Italy for political asylum.

[3] Once they were granted asylum in Italy, this group was referred to as "the defectors".