Cameo or CAMEO may refer to: *

Cameo appearance A cameo role, also called a cameo appearance and often shortened to just cameo (), is a brief appearance of a well-known person in a work of the performing arts. These roles are generally small, many of them non-speaking ones, and are commonly ei ...

, a brief appearance of a known figure in a film or television show *

Cameo (carving) Cameo () is a method of carving an object such as an engraved gem, item of jewellery or vessel. It nearly always features a raised (positive) relief image; contrast with intaglio, which has a negative image. Originally, and still in discussing ...

, a method of carving, making use of layers of different colours, or an item made with such a method

Music

* ''Cameo'' (album), an album by Dusty Springfield *

Cameo (band) Cameo is an American funk band that formed in 1974. Cameo was initially a 14-member group known as the New York City Players; this name was later changed to Cameo. As of the first half of 2009, some of the original members continued to perfor ...

, an American funk group * Cameo Records, a 1920s New York-based record label * DJ Cameo, a British disc jockey and radio presenter * "Cameo", a song by Devo from ''

Something for Everybody ''Something for Everybody'' is the sixth studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 2370, in June 17, 1961. Recording sessions took place on November 8, 1960, at Radio Reco ...

'' * "Cameo", a 2015 song by Momus from ''

Turpsycore ''Turpsycore'' is a 2015 album by Scottish musician Momus. It was released on 3 March 2015 by independent record label American Patchwork on CD and distributed by Darla Records. Background ''Turpsycore'' is a triple album dedicated to music ...

Places

* Cameo, California, a community * Cameo, Colorado, a ghost town * Cameo, West Virginia

Other uses

* Cameo (apple), a cultivar of apple *

Cameo (coinage) In coin grading, cameo is the amount of contrast between the relief (raised or recessed design) and field (background). Cameo is usually seen on proof coinage, with the relief featuring a frosted finish and the field being mirror-like. Not all pr ...

, a finish evaluated in the process of coin grading *

CAMEO (database) The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works ...

, ''Conservation and Art Materials Encyclopedia Online'', a Museum of Fine Arts, Boston database of technical terms used in art conservation and historic preservation *

CAMEO (satellite) CAMEO (Chemically Active Material Ejected in Orbit) was a piggy-back experiment included in the Nimbus-G launch by the Goddard Space Flight Center. The primary objective of the investigation was to study the magnetosphere- ionosphere interactions ...

, an experiment included in the Nimbus-G launch *

Cameo (website) Baron App Inc., doing business as Cameo, is an American video-sharing website headquartered in Chicago. Created in 2016 by Steven Galanis, Martin Blencowe, and Devon Spinnler Townsend, the site allows celebrities to send personalized video mes ...

, a website allowing users to interact with celebrities via video * ''

The Cameo ''The Cameo'' (French: ''Le camée'') is a 1913 French silent drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Emmy Lynn, Henry Roussel Henry Roussel (1875–1946), also known as Henry Roussell, was a French silent film actor, film dir ...

'', a 1913 French silent film *

The Cameo, Edinburgh The Cameo is an Edinburgh cinema which started life as the King's Cinema on 8 January 1914 and is one of the oldest cinemas in Scotland still in use. Since becoming the Cameo in 1949, it has had a tradition of showing art house films. From 1949 o ...

, a cinema *

Computer-aided management of emergency operations {{no citations, date=June 2018 CAMEO is a system of software applications used widely to plan for and respond to chemical emergencies. It is one of the tools developed by EPA’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) and the National Oceanic and At ...

Conflict and Mediation Event Observations Conflict and Mediation Event Observations (CAMEO) is a framework for coding event data (typically used for events that merit news coverage, and generally applied to the study of political news and violence). It is a more recent alternative to the W ...

* EyeToy: Cameo, a system used with video games

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