Pao

Pao or PAO may refer to:

Fiction

 * Pao-chan, a character from the Japanese magical girl anime television series, Ojamajo Doremi
 * Pao, setting of The Languages of Pao, a science fiction novel by Jack Vance
 * Pao, a Rebel commando in the film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

People

 * Pao Ching-yen (also spelled Bao Jingyan), a Chinese anarchist philosopher who presumably lived in the early fourth century C.E.
 * Yih-Ho Michael Pao, an American entrepreneur and hydro-engineer
 * Pa'O people, an ethnic group in Burma
 * Pao language (disambiguation)
 * Ellen Pao, American lawyer and former Reddit executive
 * Yue-Kong Pao, Hong Kong businessman

Places

 * Barangay Pao, an administrative division of Manaoag, Pangasinan
 * PAO, the IATA airport code for Palo Alto Airport, Santa Clara County
 * Pao River, a tributary of the Chi River in northeast Thailand
 * Pao, Trakan Phuet Phon, Ubon Ratchathani Province, Thailand
 * Pão de Açúcar, Alagoas, a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Alagoas
 * Paoli station, an Amtrak and SEPTA train station in Paoli, Pennsylvania (Amtrak station code)
 * Sugarloaf Mountain, a mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Pão de Açúcar in Portuguese

Technology

 * Process-Architecture-Optimization, the new 3-generation CPU manufacturing process replacing Intel's tick–tock model

Organizations

 * PAO, the ICAO code for Polynesian Airlines
 * Panathinaikos A.O., a Greek multisport club
 * Panhellenic Liberation Organization, a Greek resistance organization against the Axis occupation of Greece.
 * Prince Alfred's Own, a historic name for the Cape Field Artillery
 * Public Affairs Office
 * Ming Pao, a Chinese newspaper

Science

 * Pao (genus), a genus of pufferfishes
 * Pao (unit), an obsolete unit of mass and (especially) dry measure in South Asia
 * Phased-array optics
 * Pheophorbide a oxygenase, an enzyme
 * Pierre Auger Observatory
 * Polyalphaolefin, a type of polyolefin made from alpha-olefin monomer(s)
 * Polyphosphate-accumulating organism

Other uses

 * Pao (袍), an element of Han Chinese clothing
 * Pão de queijo, a Brazilian cheesy bread
 * A fairy chess piece
 * Nissan Pao, an automobile
 * PeriAcetabular Osteotomy, a surgery used to correct a condition called hip dysplasia or acetabular dysplasia
 * Period-after-opening symbol found on cosmetics products
 * Public affairs (military) Officer, or PAO, within the U.S. military
 * Person-Action-Object (PAO), a technique often used in memory training and by memory athletes