Balto (1922 – March 14, 1933) was an Alaskan Malamute sled dog who led his team on the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome, in which diphtheria antitoxin was transported from Anchorage, Alaska to Nome by dog sled to combat an outbreak of the disease (Brooks & Wallis 1998:139). The run is commemorated by the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

Balto is an animated film produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio, distributed by Universal Pictures, and originally released to movie theatres in 1995. Balto is very loosely based on a true story about the dog, Balto, who helped save children from the diphtheria epidemic in the 1925 serum run to Nome. The film's poor performance at the box office led to the closure of Amblimation, but it became a cult-classic and it was fairly successful when it was released on video, spawning two sequels: Balto II: Wolf Quest and Balto III: Wings of Change.

Balto is a simple SCA container implemention by Java language.