Cao or CAO may refer to:
Mythology
- Cao (bull), a legendary bull in Meitei mythology
Companies or organizations
- Air China Cargo, ICAO airline designator CAO
- CA Oradea, Romanian football club
- CA Osasuna, Spanish football club
- Canadian Association of Orthodontists
- Central Allocation Office, cross border electricity transmission capacity auction office
- Central Applications Office, Irish organisation that oversees college applications
- Civil Aviation Office of Poland
- Iran Civil Aviation Organization
- Office of the Chief Administrative Officer of the United States House of Representatives
- Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman, accountability arm of the World Bank
- Council for Adult Education, later Centre for Adult Education, in Victoria, Australia
Job titles
- Chief Academic Officer of a University, often titled the Provost
- Chief accounting officer of a company
- Chief administrative officer of a company
- Chief analytics officer of a company
- Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman, an independent office that reviews complaints
Names
People
- Cao (footballer, born 1968), Portuguese footballer
- Cao Cao (died 220), founder of Cao Wei, China
- Cao Hamburger (born 1962), Brazilian director, screenwriter and producer
- Cao Pi (c.187–226), emperor of Cao Wei, China
- Cao Yu (1910–1996), Chinese playwright
- Cao Yupeng (born 1990), Chinese snooker player
- Carlos Alberto Caó (1941–2018), Brazilian activist, lawyer, and politician
- Diogo Cão, a 15th-century Portuguese explorer
- Joseph Cao (born 1967), United States politician
- Lady of Cao, a Moche mummy, Peru
- Longbing Cao (born 1969), data scientist
Places
- Cao (state), a Chinese vassal state of the Zhou Dynasty (1046 - 221 BCE)
- Cao County, Shandong, China
- Cao Wei, also called Wei, one of the regimes that competed for control of China during the Three Kingdoms period (220 - 280 CE)
Other uses
- CaO, the chemical symbol for calcium oxide
- Cão!, an album by Portuguese band Ornatos Violeta
- CA Osasuna, a Spanish sport club
- a Child Arrangement Order under English family law
- Chlorophyllide-a oxygenase, an enzyme
- Cold air outbreak, an intense and/or prolonged cold weather wave of air
- Controller Access Object, as described in the ORiN robot interface
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Cao.If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Category: