Toro may refer to:

Places

Toro, Molise Toro (Molisan: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Campobasso in the Italian region Molise, located about east of Campobasso. Toro borders the following municipalities: Campodipietra, Jelsi, Monacilioni, Pietracatella Pietracat ...

, a ''comune'' in the Province of Campobasso, Italy *

Toro, Nigeria Toro is a Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Nigeria. Toro local government headquarters is in the town of Toro. The local government has three districts: Toro, Jama'a and Lame district. The local government is the largest local governmen ...

, a Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Nigeria * Toro, Shizuoka, an archaeological site in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan *

Toro, Zamora Toro is a town and municipality in the province of Zamora, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. It is located on a fertile high plain, northwest of Madrid at an elevation of . Toro is known as a center of Mudéjar art ...

, a ''municipio'' in the Province of Zamora, Castille and León, Spain *

Toro District Toro District is one of eleven districts of the province La Unión in Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_s ...

, one of eleven districts of the province La Unión in Peru *

Tooro Kingdom Tooro is a Bantu kingdom located within the borders of Uganda. The current Omukama of Toro is King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV. King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV took to the throne of Tooro kingdom in 1995 at the age of just three ...

, a traditional kingdom in Uganda *

Toro sub-region Toro sub-region is a region in Uganda that is coterminous with Toro Kingdom in Western Uganda. The districts that constitute the sub-region include the following: * Bunyangabu District * Kabarole District * Kamwenge District * Kyegegwa Distric ...

, a region that is coterminous with the Toro Kingdom in Western Uganda * Shakhtyorsk, a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, known as Toro in Japanese *

1685 Toro 1685 Toro ( ''prov. designation'': ) is an asteroid and near-Earth object of the Apollo group on an eccentric orbit. It was discovered on 17 July 1948, by American astronomer Carl Wirtanen at Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, California. The ...

, an asteroid

Companies

Toro (company) The Toro Company is an American company based in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington, Minnesota that designs, manufactures, and markets lawn mowers, snow blowers, and irrigation system supplies for commercial and residential, agricultural, an ...

, an American manufacturer of lawnmowers and other lawn equipment * Toro (food), a Norwegian food company

People

* Abraham Toro (born 1996), Canadian baseball player *

Janet Toro Janet Toro (born in Osorno, Chile, August 24, 1963) is a performance artist based in Chile and Germany whose work has centered around an anti-establishment message and the illumination of the social injustices that resulted from the Pinochet dict ...

(born 1963), Chilean performance artist *

Julio Toro Julio Toro (born November 5, 1943) is a Puerto Rican basketball coach. Toro is known for emphasizing the mental aspects of the game and making widespread use of philosophical principles, as well as other unorthodox techniques that include the ...

(born 1952), Puerto Rican basketball coach *

Manuel Murillo Toro Manuel Murillo Toro (January 1, 1816–December 26, 1880) was a Colombian statesman who served as President of the United States of Colombia (present day Colombia) on two occasions, first from 1864 to 1866, and again between 1872 and 1874.Ari ...

(1816–1880), Colombian politician and statesman, twice President of the United States of Colombia * Ray Toro (born 1977), lead guitarist for the band My Chemical Romance *

Benicio del Toro Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19, 1967) is a Puerto Rican actor and producer. He has garnered critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, two Screen A ...

(born 1967), Puerto Rican-American actor *

Guillermo del Toro Guillermo del Toro Gómez (; born October 9, 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and actor. He directed the Academy Award–winning fantasy films '' Pan's Labyrinth'' (2006) and '' The Shape of Water'' (2017), winning the Academy Awards for ...

(born 1964), Mexican film director *

Alfredo Toro Hardy Alfredo Toro Hardy (born in Caracas on May 22, 1950) is a Venezuelan retired career diplomat, scholar and public intellectual. During his diplomatic career, he occupied some of Venezuela's top ambassadorial posts, including Washington, London, Ma ...

(born 1950), Venezuelan diplomat and author *

Toró Rafael Ferreira Francisco (born 13 April 1986) usually known by the nickname Toró, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders ...

(born 1986), nickname of Brazilian footballer Rafael Ferreira Francisco *

Toro people The Toro people, Tooro people or Batooro are a Bantu ethnic group, native to the Tooro Kingdom, a subnational constitutional monarchy within Uganda. Population the following administrative districts constitute the Tooro Kingdom: (a) Kabarole D ...

, an ethnic group in western Uganda, native to Toro Kingdom

Characters

Toro Inoue , full name , also known as the Sony Cat, is a fictional character created by Sony Interactive Entertainment. He is an anthropomorphized cat who participates in numerous events and tries to act like a human. Toro first appeared in the PlayStatio ...

, the mascot for Sony Computer Entertainment *

Toro (mascot) The Houston Texans are a professional American football team based in Houston. The Texans compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) South division, and play their home games at NRG ...

, a mascot for the National Football League's Houston Texans franchise *

Toro (comics) Toro is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The first Toro was originally featured in Timely Comics and later published as a Marvel Comics superhero who appeared as the partner of the ...

, a Marvel Comics character *''

Gim Toro ''Gim Toro'' is an Italian comic book series created by Andrea Lavezzolo and Edgardo Dell'Acqua. It was in syndication from 1946 until 1951. Background Published in 1946 in an eponymous comic book series, the comics had an immediate success;Fra ...

'', an Italian comics character * Toro, a male

Carnotaurus ''Carnotaurus'' (; ) is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous period, probably sometime between 71 and 69 million years ago. The only species is ''Carnotaurus sastrei''. Known from a single well-p ...

from the

Netflix Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a ...

show

Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous The Jurassic ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of ...

Animals

Toro (rodent) The toros or brush-tailed rats, genus ''Isothrix'', are a group of spiny rats found in tropical South America, particularly in the Amazon Basin.Nowak, Ronald M. 1999. ''Walker's Mammals of the World'', 6th edition. Johns Hopkins University Press ...

, a spiny rat in the genus ''Isothrix'' *A name for some species of fish

bigeye The Priacanthidae, the bigeyes, are a family of 18 species of marine ray-finned fishes. " Catalufa" is an alternate common name for some members of the Priacanthidae. The etymology of the scientific name (, to bite + , thorn) refers to the fam ...

family **''

Priacanthus arenatus ''Priacanthus arenatus'', the toro or Atlantic bigeye, is a species of marine Actinopterygii, ray finned fish, a Priacanthidae, bigeye in the Family (biology), family Priacanthidae. Some anglers refer to this fish as "toro snapper", but it is not ...

'', the Atlantic bigeye **''

Pristigenys alta ''Pristigenys alta'', the toro or short bigeye, is a species of fish in the family Priacanthidae. Some anglers refer to this fish as "toro snapper", but it is not a snapper, and only distantly related to the fish of the snapper family. Descript ...

'', the short bigeye

Other uses

*''Il Toro'', or

Torino F.C. Torino Football Club (), commonly referred to as Torino or simply Toro, is an Italian professional football club based in Turin, Piedmont. They currently play in Serie A. Founded as ''Foot-Ball Club Torino'' in 1906, Torino are among the m ...

, an Italian football team *''Toro'', a

Spanish Fighting Bull The Spanish Fighting Bull (Toro Bravo, ''toro de lidia'', ''toro lidiado'', ''ganado bravo'', ''Touro de Lide'') is an Iberian heterogeneous cattle population. It is exclusively bred free-range on extensive estates in Spain, Portugal, France and ...

used in bullfighting *''Toro'', three turns on the track at

Cesana Pariol Cesana Pariol was the venue for bobsleigh, luge and skeleton during the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. The track, built for the games, is located in Cesana. The venue holds approximately 7,130 spectators, of whom 3,624 are seated. Cons ...

for the 2006 Winter Olympics * ''Toro'' (film), a 2015 film *, a Spanish film *

Tōrō are a type of traditional East Asian lantern made of stone, wood, or metal. Originating in China, stone lanterns spread to Japan, Korea and Vietnam, though they are most commonly found in both China – extant in Buddhist temples and traditional ...

, a Japanese traditional lantern, originally from China *

Toro (tree) ''Myrsine salicina'', synonym ''Rapanea salicina'', commonly known as toro, is a species of shrub or small tree native to New Zealand. Description Toro grows to 10 metres in height, with a trunk to 60 cm in diameter. It has long oblong shaped l ...

, or ''Rapanea salicina'', a New Zealand native tree *

Toro (DO) Toro is a Spanish Denominación de Origen Protegida (DOP) for wines in the province of Zamora, which is in the northwest of Castile and Léon (Spain). The area covered by the DOP is in the southeastern corner of Zamora province and includes t ...

, a ''Denominación de Origen'' for wine in Spain * ''Toro'' (magazine), a Canadian men's magazine *

Toro (sushi) There are many sushi and sashimi ingredients, some traditional and some contemporary. Sushi styles * Chirashi-zushi (ちらし寿司, ''scattered sushi'') is a bowl of sushi rice topped with a variety of raw fish and vegetables/garnishes (also ...

, fatty tuna used in sushi *

T'uru T'uru (Quechua for mud, also spelled ''Toro'') is a mountain in the Cordillera Central in the Andes of Peru which reaches an altitude of approximately . It is situated in the Lima Region, Yauyos Province, in the districts of Colonia and Huantan ...

, also spelled Toro, a mountain in Peru *Toro, the codename for the Verizon Wireless version of the

Galaxy Nexus The Galaxy Nexus (GT-I9250) is a touchscreen Android smartphone co-developed by Google and Samsung Electronics. It is the third smartphone in the Google Nexus series, a family of Android consumer devices built by an original equipment manufactu ...

Oldsmobile Toronado The Oldsmobile Toronado is a personal luxury car manufactured and marketed by the Oldsmobile division of General Motors from 1966 to 1992 over four generations. The Toronado was noted for its transaxle version of GM's Turbo-Hydramatic transmissio ...

, an automobile that was manufactured by the Oldsmobile division of General Motors *

Toro Bravo The Spanish Fighting Bull (Toro Bravo, ''toro de lidia'', ''toro lidiado'', ''ganado bravo'', ''Touro de Lide'') is an Iberian heterogeneous cattle population. It is exclusively bred free-range on extensive estates in Spain, Portugal, Franc ...

, a type of cow also known as the Spanish fighting bull * TORO (Torque Controlled Humanoid Robot), a development of

Justin (robot) Justin (also known as Rollin' Justin) is an autonomous and programmable humanoid robot with two arms, developed by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, located in Wessling, Germany. Introduced in 2009 ...