Mao (disambiguation)

Mao Zedong (1893–1976) was the founder of the People's Republic of China.

Mao may also refer to:

People and tribes

• Mao (given name), a feminine Japanese given name
• Mao (people), one of the scheduled tribes of India
• Mao (surname), a Chinese surname
• Mao Naga, a Naga tribe in India

Acronyms

• Manual analog override, see manual override
• Maximum tolerable period of disruption, also known as maximum allowable/acceptable outage
• Methylaluminoxane, a pyrophoric white solid
• Molėtai Astronomical Observatory, Lithuania
• Monoamine oxidase, a family of enzymes
• Plasma electrolytic oxidation, also known as microarc oxidation

Codes

• Eduardo Gomes International Airport in Manaus, Brazil (IATA code: MAO)
• Martins Heron railway station in Bracknell, Berkshire, United Kingdom (National Rail station code: MAO)

Entertainment and media

• Mao (card game), a card game
• MAO (manga), a Japanese manga series
• Maō (TV series), a Japanese television series
• Mao: The Unknown Story, a 2005 biography of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong
• Mao, a character in the anime series Endro!

Places

• Mahón, also known as Maó, a city on the island of Minorca, Spain
• Mäo (disambiguation), several places
• Mao, Chad, a city in Chad
• Mao County, in Sichuan, China
• Santa Cruz de Mao, also known as Mao, a municipality of the Valverde province in the Dominican Republic
• Mao (Vidhan Sabha constituency), a legislative assembly constituency in Manipal state, India

Other uses

• Jiao (currency), one tenth of a Chinese yuan
• Mah or Mao, the Zoroastrianism's divinity of the moon
• Mao (bird), a bird species Gymnomyza samoensis
• Mao (restaurant chain), Asian-cuisine restaurant chain in Dublin, Ireland
• Mao languages, a group of Omotic languages in western Ethiopia
• Maō, a devil in Japanese mythology and folklore
• Ma‘o, a Hawaiian name for a species of cotton
• Maotai, a brand of distilled Chinese liquor

See also

• Mu Alpha Theta (ΜΑΘ), the United States mathematics honor society for high school and two-year college students