Kano

Kano may refer to:

Places

 * Kano State, a state in Northern Nigeria
 * Kano (city), a city in Nigeria, and the capital of Kano State
 * Kingdom of Kano, a Hausa kingdom between the 10th and 14th centuries
 * Sultanate of Kano, a Hausa kingdom between the 14th and 19th centuries
 * Kano Emirate, a 19th-century Islamic state

Given name

 * Kano Fujihira (藤平 華乃), Japanese entertainer

Mononym

 * Kano (British musician) (born 1985), British rapper
 * Kano (comics) (born 1973), Spanish comic book artist
 * Kano (Japanese musician), Japanese musician and virtual YouTuber

Surname

 * Kanō Jigorō (嘉納 治五郎), Japanese founder of Judo
 * Aminu Kano (1920–1983), Nigerian politician
 * David Kano (actor) (born 1987), American actor, writer and producer
 * Eiko Kano (狩野 英孝), Japanese comedian and singer
 * Kano sisters, Kyoko Kano (叶 恭子) and Mika Kano (叶 美香), Japanese celebrities
 * Michihiko Kano (鹿野 道彦), Japanese politician
 * Miyuki Kano (狩野 美雪), Japanese volleyball player
 * Noriaki Kano (狩野 紀昭), Japanese developer of the Kano model
 * Ren Kano (加納 錬), Japanese footballer
 * Thea Kano (born 1965), American conductor
 * Tokio Kano (加納 時男), Japanese politician

Fictional characters

 * Kano (Mortal Kombat), from the Mortal Kombat franchise
 * Kano Kirishima, from the visual novel Air.
 * Kano, the leader of "Bad Company", a 2000AD comic strip
 * David Kano, from Space: 1999

Other uses

 * Kano (band), an early-1980s Italian dance music group
 * Kano (film), a 2014 Taiwanese baseball film directed by Umin Boya
 * KANO (FM), a radio station (89.1 FM) in Hilo, Hawaii
 * Kano baseball team, a defunct Taiwanese baseball team
 * Kano Chronicle, an account of the history of the Hausa people
 * Kano Computing, a British computer hardware and software company
 * Kano model, a theory of new product development and customer satisfaction
 * Kanō school, a school of Japanese painting
 * Kano, an arcade game by Glitchers
 * Rondo, a variety of the Dutch pastry gevulde koek