Kano may refer to:

Places

Kano State Kano State (Hausa: ''Jihar Kano''جىِهَر كَنوُ) (Fula: Leydi Kano 𞤤𞤫𞤴𞤣𞤭 𞤳𞤢𞤲𞤮𞥅 ) is one of the 36 states of Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajee ...

, a state in Northern Nigeria * Kano (city), a city in Nigeria, and the capital of Kano State **

Kingdom of Kano The Kingdom of Kano was a Hausa kingdom in the north of what is now Northern Nigeria that dates back before 1000 AD, and lasted until the proclamation of the Sultanate of Kano by King Ali Yaji Dan Tsamiya in 1349. The kingdom was then replaced by ...

, a Hausa kingdom between the 10th and 14th centuries **

Sultanate of Kano The Sultanate of Kano was a Hausa kingdom in the north of what is now Nigeria that dates back to 1349, when the contemporary king of Kano, Ali Yaji (1349–1385), dissolved the cult of Tsumbubra and proclaimed Kano a sultanate. Before 1000 AD, ...

, a Hausa kingdom between the 14th and 19th centuries **

Kano Emirate The Kano Emirate was a Muslim state in Northern Nigeria formed in 1349 during the reign of Sarkin Kano Ali Yaji when Wangarawa brought Islam into Kano and Sarki Ali made Islam as State religion (www.rumburilmi.com.ng). Sarki Muhammadu Rumfa ( ...

, a 19th-century Islamic state

People

Mononym

Kano (British musician) Kaine Brett Robinson (born 21 May 1985), better known as Kano, is a British rapper, songwriter and actor from East Ham, London. A significant contributor to grime music, he is widely considered one of the pioneers of grime music and culture, ...

(born 1985), British rapper * Kano (comics) (born 1973), Spanish comic book artist *

Kano (Japanese musician) is a Japanese musician and virtual YouTuber who is signed to Imperial Records. She began her artist activities as a doujin artist, uploading songs on the video-sharing website Nicovideo, before making her major debut in 2015 with the release ...

, Japanese musician and virtual YouTuber

Surname

* Kanō Jigorō (1860–1938), Japanese founder of Judo *

Aminu Kano Aminu Kano (9 August 1920 — 17 April 1983) was a Muslim politician from Nigeria born at Sudawa, Gwale Local Government and resided at Gwammaja, Dala Local Government. In the 1940s he led a socialist movement in the northern part of the ...

(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 is a Japanese comedian, singer, YouTuber, and ''kannushi''. He is nicknamed and . As a lyricist and composer of 50TA, he is nicknamed . He graduated from the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. He completed his ''kannushi'' training in Kokugaku ...

(born 1982), Japanese comedian and singer * Kano sisters, Kyoko (born 1962) and Mika (born 1967), Japanese celebrities *

Michihiko Kano was a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan. He was Minister of Agriculture. He lost his seat in the 16 December 2012 general election. Kano was born in Yamagata. He graduated from Gakushuin University is a private unive ...

(born 1942), Japanese politician *, Japanese volleyball player *

Noriaki Kano Noriaki Kano (狩野紀昭 ''Kanō Noriaki,'' pronounced ) is a Japanese educator, lecturer, writer, and consultant in the field of quality management. He is the developer of a customer satisfaction model (now known as the Kano model) whose simp ...

(born 1940), Japanese developer of the Kano model *, Japanese footballer *

Thea Kano Thea Kano (born August 1, 1965) is an American conductor. She is the Founder of the New York City Master Chorale, and was its Artistic Director until the end of the 2018–2019 season. She served as the Associate Music Director of the Gay Men' ...

(born 1965), American conductor

Fictional characters

* Kano (''Mortal Kombat''), from the ''Mortal Kombat'' franchise *Kano Kirishima, from the

visual novel A , often abbreviated as VN, is a form of digital semi-interactive fiction. Visual novels are often associated with and used in the medium of video games, but are not always labeled as such themselves. They combine a textual narrative with sta ...

Air The atmosphere of Earth is the layer of gases, known collectively as air, retained by Earth's gravity that surrounds the planet and forms its planetary atmosphere. The atmosphere of Earth protects life on Earth by creating pressure allowing f ...

''. *Kano, the leader of "

Bad Company Bad Company are an English rock supergroup that was formed in 1973 by singer Paul Rodgers, guitarist Mick Ralphs, drummer Simon Kirke and bassist Boz Burrell. Bad Company ''AllMusic'' Peter Grant, who managed the rock band Led Zeppelin, a ...

", 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 The ''Kano Chronicle'' (''Tarikh arbab hadha al-balad al-musamma Kano'' in Arabic) is an Arabic-language manuscript that lists the rulers of Kano. Summary The ''Kano Chronicle'' is a list of rulers of Kano stretching back to the 10th century A ...

, 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 The is one of the most famous schools of Japanese painting. The Kanō school of painting was the dominant style of painting from the late 15th century until the Meiji period which began in 1868, by which time the school had divided into many di ...

, a school of Japanese painting * ''Kano'', an arcade game by