Kao

Kao may refer to:

• Kao, a Japanese term for face.
• Kaō (花押?), a stylized signature or a mark used in place of a signature in China and Japan
• Kao (crater), a crater on the Moon.
• Kaō (era), a Japanese era name
• Kao (film), a 2000 film by Junji Sakamoto
• Kao (island) an island from an extinct volcano in Tonga
• Kao (surname), an alternative romanization of the Chinese family name Gao.
• Kao Airport south of Tobelo on Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia
• Kao Corporation, Japanese chemical and cosmetics company
• A knee strike used in muay thai

• Places:
  • Kao, Indonesia
  • Kao, Lesotho
  • Kao, Niger
  • Kao, Togo

• People:
  • Kao (musician), Kaoru's alternative name
  • Kao (painter), 15th Century Japanese painter.
  • Nicholas Kao Se Tseien (1897–2007), Catholic priest, supercentenarian
  • Ping-Tse Kao (1888–1970), Taiwanese astronomer, after whom the crater is named
  • R. N. Kao (1918–2002), Founder Director of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)
  • Charles Kao, Father of fiber optics, awarded 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics

KAO may refer to:

• 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 a chain of vaudeville and motion picture theatres
• Kuusamo Airport, Finland (IATA airport code)
• Communist Workers Organisation (Netherlands)