Kao

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Kao may refer to:

Places

• Kao, Indonesia
  • Kao Airport, south of Tobelo on Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia
• Kao, Lesotho
• Kao, Niger
• Kao, Togo
• Kao (island), an island in Tonga formed by an extinct volcano

People

• Kao (surname), an alternative romanization of the Chinese family name Gao
• Kao (painter), 15th century Japanese painter
• Kao (musician) (AKA Kaoru, born 1974), Japanese guitarist, composer and record producer
• Charles K. Kao (born 1933), Chinese-born electrical engineer and physicist known for work on fiber optics, awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Nicholas Kao Se Tseien (1897–2007), Catholic priest, supercentenarian
• Ping-Tse Kao (1888–1970), Taiwanese astronomer
  • Kao (crater), a lunar crater named after Ping-Tse Kao
• R. N. Kao (1918–2002), founding director of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)

Other uses

• Kao, a Japanese word for face
• Kaō (花押), a stylized signature or a mark used in place of a signature in China and Japan
• Kao Corporation, a Japanese chemical and cosmetics company
• Kaō (era), a Japanese era name
• Kao (film), a 2000 film by Junji Sakamoto
• Kuusamo Airport, Finland (IATA airport code)
• A knee strike used in muay thai
• Kappa Alpha Theta, used when the character theta is not available
• Kuiper Airborne Observatory
• Keith-Albee-Orpheum, abbreviated KAO or K-A-O, owners of an American chain of vaudeville and motion picture theatres
• Communist Workers Organisation (Netherlands) (Kommunistische Arbeidersorganisatie)