Mo or MO may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

* Mo, a girl in the ''

Horrible Histories ''Horrible Histories'' is an educational entertainment franchise encompassing many media including books, magazines, audio books, stage shows, TV shows, and more. In 2013, Lisa Edwards, UK publishing and commercial director of Scholastic Corpor ...

'' TV series * Mo, also known as Mortimer, in the novel ''

Inkheart ''Inkheart'' (german: Tintenherz) is a 2003 young adult fantasy novel by Cornelia Funke, and the first book of the ''Inkheart'' series, which was continued with ''Inkspell'' (2005) and ''Inkdeath'' (2007). The novel won the 2004 BookSense Boo ...

'' by Cornelia Funke * Mo, in the webcomic '' Jesus and Mo'' * Mo, the main character in the '' Mo's Mischief'' children's book series * Mo, an ophthalmosaurus from ''

The Land Before Time ''The Land Before Time'' is an American animated film series and media franchise created by Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss, distributed by Universal Pictures and centered on dinosaurs. The series began in 1988 with the eponymous '' The Land Bef ...

'' franchise * MO (Maintenance Operator), a robot in the Filmation series '' Young Sentinels'' * Mo, a main character in ''

Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist ''Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist'' is an American musical comedy-drama television series created by Austin Winsberg that premiered on January 7, 2020, on NBC. The series stars Jane Levy as Zoey Clarke, a software developer who discovers she has t ...

'' * M-O (Microbe Obliterator), a robot in film ''

WALL-E ''WALL-E'' (stylized with an interpunct as ''WALL·E'') is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed and co-written by Andrew Stanton, pro ...

'' * Mo the clown, a character played by

Roy Rene Roy Rene (born Henry van der Sluys, 15 February 189122 November 1954) was an Australian comedian and vaudevillian. As the bawdy character Mo McCackie, Rene was one of the most well-known and successful Australian comedians of the 20th century. ...

, 20th-century Australian stage comedian *

Mo Effanga Maureen "Mo" Effanga is a fictional character from the BBC medical drama '' Holby City'', played by actress Chizzy Akudolu. She first appeared in the fourteenth series episode "Double Bubble", broadcast on 22 May 2012. Mo is a consultant cardi ...

, in the BBC medical drama series ''Holby City'' *

Mo Harris Mo Harris (also known as "Big Mo") is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera '' EastEnders'', who made her first appearance on 18 September 2000, played by Laila Morse. Mo is also played by Lorraine Stanley in the 2004 soap "bubble" '' ...

, in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' *

Little Mo Mitchell Maureen "Little Mo" Slater (previously Morgan and Mitchell) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera '' EastEnders'', played by Kacey Ainsworth from 18 September 2000 to 26 May 2006. Little Mo originally appeared with a turbulent marria ...

, in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''

Films

* "Mo" (魔 demon), original title of '' The Boxer's Omen'', a 1983 Hong Kong film * ''Mo'' (2010 film), a television movie about British politician Mo Mowlam * ''Mo'' (2016 film), a Tamil horror film

Music

* ''M.O.'' (album), a 2013 album by American hip hop artist Nelly *

M.O M.O are an English girl group consisting of members Annie Ashcroft and Chanal Benjilali, and previously Frankee Connolly until her departure in June 2017 and Nadine Samuels until her departure in 2020. The group was formed in 2012 by the membe ...

, an English pop trio *

MØ Karen Marie Aagaard Ørsted Andersen (; born 13 August 1988), known professionally as MØ (), is a Danish singer and songwriter. She signed a recording contract with Sony Music Entertainment in 2012, releasing her debut extended play, ''Bikini ...

, a Danish singer * The MO, a Dutch pop band *

Mo Awards The Australian Entertainment Mo Awards (commonly known informally as the Mo Awards) were an annual Australian entertainment industry award, that where established in 1975, to recognise achievements in live entertainment in Australia. They were l ...

, annual awards for Australian live entertainment * Yamaha MO, a music synthesizer

Other arts and entertainment

* Mo (Oz), a fictional country in the book ''The Magical Monarch of Mo'' by L. Frank Baum * ''Mo'' (TV series), a 2022 comedy-drama

Businesses and organizations

Altria Group Altria Group, Inc. (previously known as Philip Morris Companies, Inc.) is an American corporation and one of the world's largest producers and marketers of tobacco, cigarettes and related products. It operates worldwide and is headquartered in ...

, formerly Philip Morris (New York Stock Exchange symbol MO) *

Calm Air Calm Air International LP. is a full service airline, offering passenger, charter and freight services in northern Manitoba and the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut. It is owned by Exchange Income Corporation with its main base in Winnipeg, Manitoba. ...

(IATA airline designator MO), an airline based in Thompson, Manitoba, Canada *

Milicja Obywatelska Milicja Obywatelska (), in English known as the Citizens' Militia and commonly abbreviated to MO, was the national police organization of the Polish People's Republic. It was established on 7 October 1944 by the Polish Committee of National Libera ...

, a state police institution in Poland from 1944 to 1990

Language

Mo (kana) も, in hiragana, or モ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both are made in three strokes and both represent . モー is sometimes used as the onomatopoeia for cow Cattle (''Bos taurus'') are l ...

, Romanisation of the Japanese kana も and モ *

Mo language (disambiguation) Mo may be: *Deg language Deg (also known as Aculo, Buru, Degha, Janela, Mmfo, or Mo) is a Gur (Gurunsi) language of Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of ...

Moldavian language Moldovan (Latin alphabet: ''limba moldovenească''; Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet: лимба молдовеняскэ), also known historically as Moldavian, is one of the two local names of the Romanian language in Moldova. "Moldovan" is decla ...

(deprecated ISO 639-1 language code "mo")

People

Mo (given name) Mo may be a nickname for Maureen, Maurice, Marek, Morris, or other given names. It is more rarely a given name in its own right. People with the name include: Arts and media * Mohammed Amer, Palestinian-American stand-up comedian. He is best kn ...

Emperor Mo (disambiguation) Emperor Mo (末帝; Mòdì; "The Last Emperor") is a posthumous name typically given to the last emperors of Chinese imperial dynasties, who were without other posthumous names. It may refer to: * Zhu Youzhen (888–923, reigned 913–923), Emperor ...

, the posthumous name of various Chinese emperors *

Mo (Chinese surname) The Chinese family name Mo ( 莫) is pronounced in Mandarin as "Mò" (4th tone), in Cantonese as "Mok6" (6th tone). The surname is often romanized as Mok where Cantonese speakers are prominent. According to a study of Mu Ying's Name record, the ...

Mo (Korean surname) Mo () is an uncommon Korean surname, It originated from either of two hanja ( or ), which are also used respectively to write the Chinese surnames Móu or Máo. The 2000 South Korean census found a total of 19,834 people and 6,110 households wit ...

, Danish singer songwriter Karen Marie Ørsted (born 1988) *

Mr. Mo (rapper) Jim Crow was a rap group from Atlanta made up of Polow da Don, Cutty Cartel, and Mr. Mo. Their debut album peaked at No. 99 on ''Billboards Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Its first single, "That Drama (Baby's Mama)", featuring Too Short, peaked ...

, rapper, member of the group Jim Crow * Mr. Mo (singer), member of the Danish band Kaliber *

Mo Twister Mohan Gumatay (born October 19, 1977), known professionally as Mo Twister, is a Filipino American radio and television presenter. He is best known for his ''Good Times'' programs, which started as a radio show and later spun off to the televisi ...

, Filipino radio DJ and TV host Mohan Gumatay (born 1977) *

Mo Hayder Beatrice Clare Dunkel (born Clare Damaris Bastin; pen names, Mo Hayder and Theo Clare; 2 January 1962 – 27 July 2021) was a British author. Earlier in her life she worked as an actress and model under the name Candy Davis. She went on to wr ...

, a pen name of British crime novelist Beatrice Clare Dunkel (1962–2021) *

Mo (wrestler) Robert Lawrence Horne (born April 13, 1967) is an American semi-retired professional wrestler who is most famous for his time in the World Wrestling Federation from 1993 to 1996 under the ring name Mo (later Sir Mo), where he held the WWF World T ...

, ring name of Robert Horne (born 1964), professional wrestler

Places

Norway

Mo i Rana Mo i Rana () is a city, and the administrative centre of the municipality of Rana, in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the Helgeland region of Nordland, just south of the Arctic Circle. Some of the city's suburbs include Båsmoen and Yt ...

, a town in Rana municipality, Nordland county * Mo, Agder, a village in Vegårshei municipality, Agder county * Mo, Innlandet, a village in Nord-Odal municipality, Innlandet county *

Mo, Møre og Romsdal Mo is a village in Surnadal Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and n ...

, a village in Surnadal municipality, Møre og Romsdal county * Mo, Telemark, a former municipality in the old Telemark county * Mo, Vestland, a village in Modalen municipality, Vestland county * Mo Church (disambiguation), a list of several churches by this name in Norway

Elsewhere

* County Mayo, Ireland (vehicle plate code MO) *

Macau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a p ...

(ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code MO) *

Missouri Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas t ...

, US (postal abbreviation) * Moscow Oblast, Russia *

Province of Modena The Province of Modena ( it, Provincia di Modena) is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Modena. It has an area of and a total population of about 701,000 (2015). There are 48 ''comuni'' (singular: ''co ...

, Italy (vehicle plate code MO)

Religion

* Mo (divination), a traditional Tibetan Buddhist technique of divination *

Mo (religion) Mo or Moism () is the religion of most Zhuang people, the largest ethnic minority of China. It has a large presence in Guangxi. While it has a supreme god, the creator Bu Luotuo (布洛陀), numerous other deities are venerated as well. It has ...

, an animist religion of the Zhuang people of China * Modern Orthodox Judaism, a movement that attempts to synthesize Orthodox Jewish values with the secular world

Science and technology

Computing

.mo :''.mo can also refer to the file extension of binary files that have been compiled from .po files using GNU gettext.'' .mo is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Macau, China. The registry for this domain name is operated b ...

, country code top level domain of Macau *

Magneto-optical drive A magneto-optical drive is a kind of optical disc drive capable of writing and rewriting data upon a magneto-optical disc. Both 130 mm (5.25 in) and 90 mm (3.5 in) form factors exist. In 1983, just a year after the introduct ...

(magneto-optical storage), a data storage medium *

Microsoft Office Microsoft Office, or simply Office, is the former name of a family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas. Initially a marketi ...

, an office software suite *

Mode of operation In cryptography, a block cipher mode of operation is an algorithm that uses a block cipher to provide information security such as confidentiality or authenticity. A block cipher by itself is only suitable for the secure cryptographic transform ...

, in encryption block ciphers *

Motivating operation Motivating operation (MO) is a behavioristic concept introduced by Jack Michael in 1982. It is used to explain variations in the effects in the consequences of behavior. Most importantly, an MO affects how strongly the person is reinforced or pu ...

, a term describing the effectiveness of consequences in operant conditioning

Other uses in science and technology

* Mo (grist mill) (磨), ancient Chinese stone implements used to grind grain into flour * '' Magnus and Oberhettinger'' aka "''Formulas and Theorems for the Functions of Mathematical Physics''", a mathematics book on special functions *

Manual override A manual override (MO) or manual analog override (MAO) is a mechanism where control is taken from an automated system and given to the user. For example, a manual override in photography refers to the ability for the human photographer to turn off ...

, a mechanism wherein control is taken from an automated system and given to the user *

Metalorganics Metal-organic compounds (jargon: metalorganics, metallo-organics) are a class of chemical compounds that contain metals and organic ligands, which confer solubility in organic solvents or volatility. Compounds with these properties find applicatio ...

, also known as organometallics, in chemistry and materials science *

Molecular orbital In chemistry, a molecular orbital is a mathematical function describing the location and wave-like behavior of an electron in a molecule. This function can be used to calculate chemical and physical properties such as the probability of findin ...

, a mathematical function describing the wave-like behavior of an electron in a molecule * Molybdenum, symbol Mo, a chemical element *

Momentary open In electrical engineering, a switch is an electrical component that can disconnect or connect the conducting path in an electrical circuit, interrupting the electric current or diverting it from one conductor to another. The most common type of ...

(MO), a group of electrical switches

Vehicles

MO-class small guard ship The MO (russian: Малый Охотник, ''Malyj Okhotnik''; en, Small Hunter, nickname ''Moshka'' (''Midge'') is a class of small ships produced before and during World War II for the Soviet Navy. Their primary function originally was anti-s ...

, a class of small ships produced before and during World War II for the Soviet Navy *

Morris Oxford MO Morris Oxford Series MO is an automobile produced by Morris Motors of the United Kingdom from 1948 to 1954. It was one of several models to carry the Morris Oxford name between 1913 and 1971. __TOC__ Saloon After the Second World War the 13.5 ...

, an automobile produced by Morris Motors of the United Kingdom from 1948 to 1954

Other uses

Mo (Chinese zoology) ''Mo'' (貘) was the standard Chinese name for the giant panda from the 3rd century BCE to the 19th century CE, but in 1824, the French sinologist Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat mistakenly identified the ''mo'' as the recently discovered black-and-whi ...

, a name that semantically changed from "giant panda", to "a mythical chimera", to "tapir" * '' Modus operandi'' (abbreviation m.o.), Latin meaning "mode of operation"; distinctive behavior patterns of an entity * Month (abbreviation mo.), a unit of time of approximately 30 days *

Operation Mo or the Port Moresby Operation was a Japanese plan to take control of the Australian Territory of New Guinea during World War II as well as other locations in the South Pacific. The goal was to isolate Australia and New Zealand from the Allied ...

, or the Port Moresby Operation, a Japanese plan to take the Australian Territory of New Guinea during World War II * Medical officer (disambiguation) * The Australian English diminutive word for

moustache A moustache (; en-US, mustache, ) is a strip of facial hair grown above the upper lip. Moustaches have been worn in various styles throughout history. Etymology The word "moustache" is French, and is derived from the Italian ''mustaccio'' ...