It's an honoring name given by Malaysians. Like Sir in English, or even higher than that.
Only One, DATO BABI.
Dato Janelidze was born in 1958.
Dato Khujadze was born in 1975.
Dato Barbakadze was born in 1966.
Hasna Mohamed Dato was born in 1959.
Dato Janelidze's birth name is Janelidze, David.
Dato Shushania was born on September 24, 1954, in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Dato' Seri Megat Jaafar died in 2003.
Sekolah Dato' Abdul Razak was created in 1957.
Dato' Keramat LRT station was created in 1999.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_Hassan
Hussein bin Dato' Onn was born on February 12, 1922.