Pao or PAO may refer to:

Fiction

* Pao-chan, a character from the Japanese magical girl anime television series, ''

Ojamajo Doremi , alternatively titled ''Magical DoReMi'' in English, is a Japanese fantasy magical girl anime television series produced by Toei Animation. It focuses on a group of elementary school girls, led by Doremi Harukaze, who become wit ...

'' * Pao, setting of ''

The Languages of Pao ''The Languages of Pao'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Jack Vance, first published in 1958, based on the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, which asserts that a language's structure and grammar construct the perception and consciousness ...

'', 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 The Pa'O (; , , or ; ; Eastern Poe Karen: တံင်သူ; ; also spelt Pa-O or Paoh) are an ethnic minority living in Myanmar, with a population of roughly 1,200,000 accounting for approximately 2.1% of the total population in Myanmar. Oth ...

, an ethnic group in Burma *

Pao language (disambiguation) Pao may be: * Pa'O language The Pa'O language (also spelled Pa-O or Pa-oh; , ); ), sometimes called Taungthu, is a Karen language spoken by close to 900,000 Pa'O people in Myanmar. The language is primarily written using a Burmese script alp ...

Ellen Pao Ellen Kangru Pao ( Chinese: 鮑康如; born 1970) is an American lawyer and businesswoman who was the chief executive officer (CEO) of the social media company Reddit from 2014 to 2015. Since 2016, she has been the cofounder and CEO of the non ...

, American lawyer and former Reddit executive *

Yue-Kong Pao Sir Yue-Kong Pao CBE JP (; 10 November 1918 — 23 September 1991), was the founder of Hong Kong's Worldwide Shipping Group, which at one point was the largest shipping company in the world. Anticipating the seriousness of the shipping ...

, Hong Kong businessman

Places

* Barangay Pao, an administrative division of Manaoag, Pangasinan * PAO, the IATA airport code for

Palo Alto Airport Palo Alto Airport is a general aviation airport in the city of Palo Alto in Santa Clara County, California, United States, near the south end of San Francisco Bay on the western shore. Facilities Palo Alto Airport covers and has one asphalt ...

, 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 Pão de Açúcar is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population is 24,351 (2020) and its area is 659 km². Geography Climate See also * List of municipalities in Alagoas This is a list of the municipalities in the ...

, 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 Sugarloaf Mountain (, ) is a peak situated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on a peninsula at the mouth of Guanabara Bay. Rising above the harbor, the peak is named for its resemblance to the traditional shape of concentrated refined loaf suga ...

, 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 Samoa Airways, formerly Polynesian Airlines, is the flag carrier of Samoa. The airline was founded in 1959 as "Polynesian Airlines", providing domestic and international flights throughout the South Pacific. International operations were tempor ...

Panathinaikos A.O. Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos (, literally in English: "Panathenaic Athletic Club" or Panathinaikos A.C.), also known simply as Panathinaikós , is a major Greek multi-sport club based in the City of Athens. Panathinaikos is one of the mos ...

, a Greek multisport club *

Panhellenic Liberation Organization The Panhellenic Liberation Organization (, ''Panellinios Apeleftherotiki Organosis'' (PAO)), was a Greek resistance organization against the Axis occupation of Greece. It was founded in 1941 by a group of Greek army officers, under the name Defen ...

, a Greek resistance organization against the Axis occupation of Greece. *

Prince Alfred's Own The Nelson Mandela Artillery Regiment (formerly the Cape Field Artillery) is a reserve artillery regiment of the South African Army and part of the South African Army Artillery Formation. History Origins After news of the Indian Mutiny reached ...

, a historic name for the Cape Field Artillery *

Public Affairs Office Public affairs is a term for the formal offices of the branches of the United States Department of Defense whose purpose is to deal with the media and community issues. The term is also used for numerous media relations offices that are created ...

* ''

Ming Pao ''Ming Pao'' () is a Chinese-language newspaper published by Media Chinese International in Hong Kong. In the 1990s, ''Ming Pao'' established four overseas branches in North America; each provides independent reporting on local news and coll ...

'', a Chinese newspaper

Science

Pao (genus) ''Pao'' is a genus of mostly freshwater pufferfish with one species (''P. leiurus'') also occurring in brackish water. They are found in Southeast Asia. Until 2013, its species were generally placed in ''Tetraodon''. Species There are currently ...

, a genus of pufferfishes *

Pao (unit) The pao is a unit of dry measure (mass) which is used in South Asia. The name may come from the Punjabi ਪਾਓ ''páo'', which was a traditional charge of one quarter of a seer per every maund of grain that was weighed, converted into a tax by S ...

, an obsolete unit of mass and (especially) dry measure in South Asia *

Phased-array optics Phased-array optics is the technology of controlling the phase and amplitude of light waves transmitting, reflecting, or captured (received) by a two-dimensional surface using adjustable surface elements. An optical phased array (OPA) is the optica ...

Pheophorbide a oxygenase Pheophorbide a oxygenase (, ''pheide a monooxygenase'', ''pheide a oxygenase'', ''PAO'') is an enzyme with systematic name ''pheophorbide-a,NADPH:oxygen oxidoreductase (biladiene-forming)''. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction ...

, an enzyme *

Pierre Auger Observatory The Pierre Auger Observatory is an international cosmic ray observatory in Argentina designed to detect ultra-high-energy cosmic rays: sub-atomic particles traveling nearly at the speed of light and each with energies beyond . In Earth's atmosphe ...

Polyalphaolefin A polyolefin is a type of polymer with the general formula (CH2CHR)n where R is an alkyl group. They are usually derived from a small set of simple olefins ( alkenes). Dominant in a commercial sense are polyethylene and polypropylene. More special ...

, a type of polyolefin made from alpha-olefin monomer(s) *

Polyphosphate-accumulating organism Polyphosphate-accumulating organisms (PAOs) are a group of microorganisms that, under certain conditions, facilitate the removal of large amounts of phosphorus from their environments. The most studied example of this phenomenon is in polyphosphat ...

Other uses

* Pao (袍), an element of

Han Chinese clothing ''Hanfu'' (, lit. "Han Chinese, Han clothing"), also known as ''Hanzhuang'' (), are the traditional styles of clothing worn by the Han Chinese since the 2nd millennium BCE. There are several representative styles of ''hanfu'', such as the (an ...

Pão de queijo Pão de queijo (, "cheese bread" in Portuguese) or Brazilian cheese balls is a small, baked cheese roll or cheese ball, a popular snack and breakfast food in Brazil. It is a traditional Brazilian recipe, originating in the state of Minas Gerais. ...

, a Brazilian cheesy bread * A

fairy chess piece A fairy chess piece, variant chess piece, unorthodox chess piece, or heterodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess but incorporated into certain chess variants and some unorthodox chess problems, known as fairy chess. Compar ...

* Nissan Pao, an automobile *PeriAcetabular Osteotomy, a surgery used to correct a condition called

hip dysplasia Hip dysplasia is an abnormality of the hip joint where the socket portion does not fully cover the ball portion, resulting in an increased risk for joint dislocation. Hip dysplasia may occur at birth or develop in early life. Regardless, it doe ...

or acetabular dysplasia *

Period-after-opening symbol The period-after-opening symbol or PAO symbol is a graphic symbol that identifies the useful lifetime of a cosmetic product after its package has been opened for the first time. It depicts an open cosmetics pot and is used together with a written ...

found on cosmetics products *

Public affairs (military) Public affairs is a term for the formal offices of the branches of the United States Department of Defense whose purpose is to deal with the media and community issues. The term is also used for numerous media relations offices that are created ...

Officer, or PAO, within the U.S. military * Person-Action-Object (PAO), a technique often used in memory training and by memory athletes