Ho (or the transliterations He or Heo) may refer to:

People

Language and ethnicity

Ho people The Ho or Kolha people are an Austroasiatic Munda ethnic group of India. They call themselves the ''Ho'', ''Hodoko'' and ''Horo,'' which mean 'human' in their own language. Officially, however, they are mentioned in different subgroups like K ...

, an ethnic group of India **

Ho language Ho () is a Munda language of the Austroasiatic language family spoken primarily in India by about 1.04 million people (0.103% of India's population) per the 2001 census. Ho is a tribal language. It is spoken by the Ho, Munda, Kolha and ...

, a tribal language in India *

Hani people The Hani or Ho people ( Hani: ''Haqniq''; zh, c=哈尼族, p=Hānízú; vi, Người Hà Nhì / 𠊛何贰) are a Lolo-speaking ethnic group in Southern China and Northern Laos and Vietnam. They form one of the 56 officially recognized na ...

, or Ho people, an ethnic group in China, Laos and Vietnam *

Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea). It is a simplified version of Motu, from the Austronesian l ...

, ISO 639-1 language code ho *

Ho (Armenian) The Armenian alphabet ( hy, Հայոց գրեր, ' or , ') is an alphabetic writing system used to write Armenian. It was developed around 405 AD by Mesrop Mashtots, an Armenian linguist and ecclesiastical leader. The system originally had 3 ...

a letter of the Armenian script.

Names

Ho (Korean name) Ho is a Korean family name, a single-syllable masculine Korean given name, and an element in two-syllable Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. Family name As a family name, Ho may be written with three dif ...

, a family name, given name, and an element in two-syllable given names *

Heo Heo is a family name in Korea. It is also often spelled as Hur or Huh, or less commonly as Her. In South Korea in 1985, out of a population of between roughly 40 and 45 million, there were approximately 264,000 people surnamed Heo. The name is al ...

, also romanised as Hŏ, a Korean family name *

Hồ (surname) Hồ is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as Hu in Chinese and Ho in Korean. Ho is the anglicized variation of the surname Hồ. Not be confused with Ho surname in Vietnamese. The Hồ 胡 clan which founded the Hồ dynasty in ...

, a Vietnamese surname * He (surname), or Ho, the romanised transliteration of several Chinese family names *

Hè (surname) Hè ( IPA: )), also romanized as Ho, is a Chinese surname that is 71st in the list of common Chinese surnames, list of the top 100 most common Chinese family names. The Chinese character 贺 means "celebrate" or "congratulate." According to a 2013 ...

, also romanised as Ho, a Chinese surname

People with the surname

Cassey Ho Cassey Ho Vinh (born in Los Angeles, January 16, 1987) is an American social media fitness entrepreneur with a YouTube channel and a website that sells fitness apparel. In 2013, she received a Shorty Award in the category of social fitness. In 20 ...

(born 1987), American social media fitness entrepreneur *

Coco Ho Coco Malia Camille Hapaikekoa Ho (born April 28, 1991) is a professional Hawaiian surfer born in Honolulu, Hawaii. She began surfing at 7 years old, following in the footsteps of her family. Early years At age 7, Coco Ho began following in th ...

(born 1991), American surfer *

Derek Ho Derek Ho (September 26, 1964 – July 17, 2020) was a Hawaiian Chinese surfer who won the world surfing championship in 1993. Ho was born in Kailua, Honolulu County, Hawaii. He began surfing at the age of three, and won the world title at a ...

(1964—2020), Hawaiian surfer *

Don Ho Donald Tai Loy Ho (August 13, 1930 – April 14, 2007) was a Hawaiian traditional pop musician, singer and entertainer. He is best known for the song "Tiny Bubbles" from the album of the same name. Life and career Ho was a singer of Native ...

(1930–2007), American musician *

Ho Chi Minh (: ; born ; 19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), commonly known as (' Uncle Hồ'), also known as ('President Hồ'), (' Old father of the people') and by other aliases, was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman. He served as P ...

(1890–1969), Vietnamese political leader * Michael Ho (born 1957), American surfer * Sornsawan Ho (born 1993), Thai member of the Scout Movement

Places

Ho, Denmark Ho is a village in southwestern Jutland in the Varde Municipality, in Region of Southern Denmark. Many tourists, especially Germans, visit the village primarily because of the nature of the area. It is 7 kilometers from Blåvand, 11 kilometers f ...

* Ho Municipal, a district in Ghana **

Ho, Ghana Ho is the capital city of the Ho Municipal District and the Volta Region of Ghana. The city lies between Mount Adaklu and Mount Galenukui or Togo Atakora Range, and is home to the Volta Regional Museum, a cathedral, and a prison.Ho Airport Ho Airport is a regional airport built to serve Ho in the Volta Region of Ghana. Construction was completed in 2017, although the airport was not opened to commercial traffic until 2021. History On 18 September 2015, President John Dramani Mah ...

Science and technology

Tasmanian Herbarium The Tasmanian Herbarium is a herbarium in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Its Index Herbariorum code is HO. It is a part of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. The earliest plant samples in the herbarium's collection date from early European ex ...

, Index herbariorum code HO *

ho. ho., also known as ho-mobile, is a mobile telephone service offered by VEI S.r.l., an Italian Mobile Virtual Network Operator ( ESP MVNO). It's the low-cost flanker brand In marketing, a fighter brand (sometimes called a fighting brand or a f ...

also known as ho-mobile, an Italian telecommunications company owned by Vodafone Omnitel N.V. *

Holmium Holmium is a chemical element with the symbol Ho and atomic number 67. It is a rare-earth element and the eleventh member of the lanthanide series. It is a relatively soft, silvery, fairly corrosion-resistant and malleable metal. Like a lot of oth ...

, symbol Ho, a chemical element *

Hoxnian __NOTOC__ The Hoxnian Stage was a middle Pleistocene stage (Pleistocene from million to 11,700 years BP) of the geological history of the British Isles. It was an interglacial which preceded the Wolstonian Stage and followed the Anglian Stage. I ...

(Ho I to Ho IV), a stage of the geological history of the British Isles *

Hydroxyl radical The hydroxyl radical is the diatomic molecule . The hydroxyl radical is very stable as a dilute gas, but it decays very rapidly in the condensed phase. It is pervasive in some situations. Most notably the hydroxyl radicals are produced from the ...

, ^•OH, chemical formula HO * Heterotopic ossification, a process by which bone tissue forms outside of the skeleton

Other uses

* '' Ho!'', a 1968 French-Italian crime film * ''Hō'' (EP), a 2001 EP by Maximum the Hormone * Ho (kana), a part of the Japanese writing system *

Handelsorganisation The Handelsorganisation (“Trading Organisation”, or HO) was a national retail business owned by the central administration of the Soviet Zone of occupation in Germany and from 1949 on by the state of the German Democratic Republic. It was cre ...

, a state-owned retail business of the former German Democratic Republic * Head office, or headquarters *

HO scale HO or H0 is a rail transport modelling scale using a 1:87 scale (3.5 mm to 1 foot). It is the most popular scale of model railway in the world. The rails are spaced apart for modelling standard gauge tracks and trains in HO. NMRA"Mo ...

(Half O), a rail transport modelling scale * Antinea Airlines, a former Algerian airline, IATA airline code HO *

Juneyao Airlines Juneyao Air (), formerly known as Juneyao Airlines, is a carrier headquartered in Shanghai, operating both domestic and international services from two airports ( Shanghai Hongqiao and Shanghai Pudong). The company was founded in 2005 as a subsi ...

, a Chinese airline, IATA airline code HO * Slang for a

whore Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment. The definition of "sexual activity" varies, and is often defined as an activity requiring physical contact (e.g., sexual intercourse, non-penet ...

or sexually loose woman