Kano may refer to:

Places

* Kano State, a state in Northern Nigeria *

Kano (city) Kano (Ajami: كانو) is a city in northern Nigeria and the capital of Kano State. It is the second largest city in Nigeria after Lagos, with over four million citizens living within ; located in the Savanna, south of the Sahel, Kano is a ma ...

, 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

People

Mononym

* Kano (British musician) (born 1985), British rapper *

Kano (comics) Kano is the pseudonym of Spanish comic book artist Jose Ángel Cano López. Biography Kano began his career at the age of 13, editing Spanish-language comics fanzines; at 15 he was already doing layouts and design work for Planeta-DeAgostini ( ...

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

Surname

Kanō Jigorō was a Japanese educator, athlete, and the founder of Judo. Along with Ju-Jutsu, Judo was one of the first Japanese martial arts to gain widespread international recognition, and the first to become an official Olympic sport. Pedagogical inno ...

(1860–1938), Japanese founder of Judo * Aminu Kano (1920–1983), Nigerian politician *

David Kano (actor) David Kano (born January 7, 1987) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, journalist, model, and reporter. He started his entertainment career in commercial and print modeling for Nike, K-Swiss, and appeared as a lead in an NCAA Men's ...

(born 1987), American actor, writer and producer * Eiko Kano (born 1982), Japanese comedian and singer * Kano sisters, Kyoko (born 1962) and Mika (born 1967), Japanese celebrities * Michihiko Kano (born 1942), Japanese politician *, Japanese volleyball player * Noriaki Kano (born 1940), Japanese developer of the Kano model *, Japanese footballer * Thea Kano (born 1965), American conductor

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) Kano was an Italo disco music project formed in Milan, Italy in 1979 by producers/musicians Luciano Ninzatti, Stefano Pulga and Matteo Bonsanto. History Kano's debut single was the 1980 international hit "I'm Ready", combining elements of 1970 ...

, an early-1980s Italian dance music group * ''Kano'' (film), a 2014 Taiwanese baseball film directed by Umin Boya *

KANO (FM) 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 ...

, a radio station (89.1 FM) in Hilo, Hawaii *

Kano baseball team The , officially the , was a Taiwanese baseball team established in 1928 in Japanese Formosa. The team was a motley crew that consisted of Han Chinese ( Hoklo and Hakka), Taiwanese indigenous people, and Japanese players. The high school baseball ...

, a defunct Taiwanese baseball team * Kano Chronicle, an account of the history of the Hausa people *

Kano Computing Kano Computing is a global computer hardware and software start-up based in London. History Kano was founded in January 2013 by Alex Klein, Saul Klein, and Yonatan Raz-Fridman. The company's name originates from Kanō Jigorō, the creator of ...

, a British computer hardware and software company *

Kano model The Kano model is a theory for product development and customer satisfaction developed in the 1980s by Professor Noriaki Kano, which classifies customer preferences into five categories. Categories These categories have been translated into E ...