Neo or NEO may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional entities

* Neo (''The Matrix''), the alias of Thomas Anderson, a hacker and the protagonist of the Matrix film series * Neo (''Marvel Comics'' species), a fictional race of superhumans * Neo Saiba , a character from ''Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01'' * Mettaton NEO, a character in ''

Undertale ''Undertale'' is a 2015 2D role-playing video game created by American indie developer Toby Fox. The player controls a child who has fallen into the Underground: a large, secluded region under the surface of the Earth, separated by a magical ...

'' * Spamton NEO, a character in ''

Deltarune ''Deltarune'' is a role-playing video game developed by Toby Fox. The player controls a teenage human, Kris, who is destined to save the world together with Susie, a monster, and Ralsei, a prince from the Dark World. During their quest to seal t ...

'' * NEO, a character from ''

Digimon Next is a Japanese manga series written by Tatsuya Hamazaki and illustrated by Takeshi Okano. It is the second '' Digimon'' manga and was serialized in Shueisha's ''V Jump'' magazine from 2006 to 2008. The main character is Tsurugi Tatsuno and is ...

'' * Neo, short for Neopolitan, a character from the animated series ''

RWBY ''RWBY'' (pronounced "Ruby") is an American anime-influenced computer-animated web series created by Monty Oum for Rooster Teeth. It is set in the fictional world of Remnant, where young people train to become warriors (called "Huntsmen" and ...

Music

N.E.O. (band) N.E.O. (acronym for New Electronic Opus) is a Lithuanian electropop and pop music band of four guys formed in Kaunas in 2000. At first the band's activities were irregular as its members were preoccupied with school. In summer 2004, the band ...

, a Lithuanian band * Neo (British band), a post-punk band *

Neo (Hungarian band) Neo is a Hungarian indie-electronic Electronic may refer to: *Electronics, the science of how to control electric energy in semiconductor * ''Electronics'' (magazine), a defunct American trade journal *Electronic storage, the storage of data us ...

, a Hungarian group * Neo (Italian band), a prog-jazz group * Ne Obliviscaris, sometimes abbreviated NeO, an Australian heavy metal band * ''Neo'' (album), a 1979 album by Ian North *

NCT (band) NCT (; an acronym for Neo Culture Technology) is a South Korean boy band formed by SM Entertainment and introduced in January 2016. The group consists of 23 members and divided into four different sub-units: NCT U, NCT 127, NCT Dream, and WayV. I ...

, Neo Culture Technology, a K-pop boy band *"N.E.O.", a song by Chai

Other entertainment

* ''Neo'' (magazine), an anime, manga and Asian film magazine published in the UK * Neo (nightclub), a Chicago nightclub opened in 1979 *

PlayStation 4 Pro The PlayStation 4 (PS4) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Announced as the successor to the PlayStation 3 in February 2013, it was launched on November 15, 2013, in North America, November 29, 2013 in E ...

(codename Neo), a high end version of the PlayStation 4 console

Science and technology

Near-Earth object A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body whose orbit brings it into proximity with Earth. By convention, a Solar System body is a NEO if its closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) is less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU). ...

, a Solar System object whose orbit brings it into close proximity with the Earth *

Neomycin Neomycin is an aminoglycoside antibiotic that displays bactericidal activity against gram-negative aerobic bacilli and some anaerobic bacilli where resistance has not yet arisen. It is generally not effective against gram-positive bacilli and ...

, an antibiotic

Computing

Neo (keyboard) AlphaSmart, Inc. was an education technology company founded by Apple Computer engineers Joe Barrus and Ketan Kothari, and Kothari's brother, Manish, in the early 90's. At the time of their initial release in 1993, the first AlphaSmart models were ...

, a portable keyboard by AlphaSmart *

Neo (keyboard layout) The Neo layout is an optimized German keyboard layout developed in 2004 by the Neo Users Group, supporting nearly all Latin-based alphabets, including the International Phonetic Alphabet, the Vietnamese language, and some Cyrillic languages. ...

, an ergonomic keyboard layout *

NEO (cryptocurrency) Neo (formerly Antshares) is an open-source decentralized blockchain decentralized application platform founded in 2014 by Da HongFei and Erik Zhang. Since its rebranding to ''Neo'' from ''Antshares'' in 2017, the project's vision is to realize a ...

(Symbol: NEO), a cryptocurrency and blockchain platform *

Neo 1973 Openmoko is a discontinued project to create a family of open source mobile phones, including the hardware specification, the operating system (Openmoko Linux), and actual smartphone development implementation like the Neo 1973 and Neo FreeRun ...

, smartphone running Openmoko software * .NEO, the file extension for computer images in the

NEOchrome NEOchrome is an early color bitmap graphics editor for the Atari ST. It was written by Dave Staugas, a programmer at Atari Corporation and co-author of the ST's operating system. ''NEOchrome'' supports hardware-supported color cycling to give the ...

format *

Neo (French law enforcement agencies mobile terminals) NEO is a project aimed to provide French police officers and gendarmes with mobile terminals with a secure broadband connection. It is based on a version of Android developed by the national agency of the security of the information systems (AN ...

and NeoGend, a project of secure smartphones and tablets for the French National Police and gendarmerie * NEO, software products based on Sun Microsystems' Project

Distributed Objects Everywhere Distributed Objects Everywhere (DOE) was a long-running Sun Microsystems project to build a distributed computing environment based on the CORBA system in the 'back end' and OpenStep as the user interface. First started in 1990 and announced soon t ...

* Surface Neo, an upcoming foldable phone created by

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washin ...

Transportation

Nissan Ecology Oriented Nissan Ecology Oriented Variable Valve Lift and Timing (commonly known as VVL & VVT) is an automobile variable valve timing technology developed by Nissan. VVL varies the duration, and lift of valves by using hydraulic pressure switch between ...

or NEO VVL, an automobile variable valve timing technology * New Engine Option, fuel-efficient re-engined versions of certain Airbus aircraft: **

Airbus A320neo family The Airbus A320neo family is a development of the A320 family of narrow-body airliners produced by Airbus. The A320neo family (''neo'' for "new engine option") is based on the previous A319, A320 and A321 ( enhanced variant), which was then ren ...

** Airbus A330neo * Proton Satria Neo, an automotive brand *

Youngcopter Neo The Youngcopter Neo () is a German NOTAR helicopter that was designed by Björn Jung and is under development by his company, Youngcopter of Mainz. It was first publicly introduced at the ILA Berlin Air Show in 2008. The aircraft is intended ...

, a German helicopter design

People

* NEO (''Counter-Strike'' player) (born 1987), screen name of Polish professional ''Counter-Strike'' player Filip Kubski *

Neo Rauch Neo Rauch (born 18 April 1960, in Leipzig, East Germany; ) is a German artist whose paintings mine the intersection of his personal history with the politics of industrial alienation. His work reflects the influence of socialist realism, and owes ...

(born 1960), German artist *

Jack Neo Jack Neo (born 24 January 1960) is a Singaporean actor, television host, comedian and film director. He was prominently a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 1983 to 2003. In the 1990s and early 2000s, he was best known for his cross-dressing roles ...

(born 1960), Singaporean actor, host, and director *

August Neo August "Ago" Neo (12 February 1908 – 19 August 1982) was an Estonian wrestler who won two medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics: a silver medal in the freestyle wrestling and a bronze in Greco-Roman wrestling. His achievements were underscored b ...

(1908–1982), Estonian wrestler

Other uses

Revised NEO Personality Inventory The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R) is a personality inventory that assesses an individual on five dimensions of personality, the so-called Big Five personality traits. These traits are openness to experience, conscientiousness, ext ...

, a psychometric instrument * Neo (constructed language), a constructed language created by Arturo Alfandari * Neo, Vietnam, a former township in Bac Giang Province, Vietnam *

NEO Exchange The NEO Exchange is a Canadian Tier 1 stock exchange for the innovation economy, bringing together investors and capital raisers. Fully operational since 2015, and acquired by Cboe Global Markets in 2022, NEO provides access to trading across al ...

, a Canadian stock exchange *

New European Order The New European Order (NEO) was a neo-fascist, Europe-wide alliance set up in 1951 to promote pan-European nationalism. The NEO, led by René Binet and Gaston-Armand Amaudruz, was a more radical splinter group that broke away from the European ...

, a neo-fascist Europe-wide alliance set up in 1951 to promote Pan-European nationalism * Non-combatant evacuation operation, an operation conducted to evacuate a country's civilians from another country * Neo, the Hokkien/Teochew form of the Chinese family name Liang