Cameo or CAMEO may refer to: *

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

, a brief appearance of a known figure in a film or television show, metaphorically named after a cameo carving *

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 discuss ...

, 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 perfo ...

, an American funk group *

Cameo Records Cameo Records was an American record label that flourished in the 1920s. It was owned by the Cameo Record Corporation in New York City. Cameo released a disc by Lucille Hegamin every two months from 1921 to 1926. Cameo Records are also noted f ...

, a 1920s New York–based record label *

DJ Cameo DJ Cameo is an English DJ and former host of "Pirate Sessions", a now-defunct Sunday afternoon grime show on the digital UK radio station BBC 1Xtra. He later hosted the Tuesday night UKG show, but on 4 November 2015 it was announced that he w ...

, 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 May 1961. Recording sessions took place on November 8, 1960, at Radio Recorders i ...

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

Turpsycore ''Turpsycore'' is a 2015 album by Scottish musician Momus (musician), Momus. It was released on 3 March 2015 by independent record label American Patchwork on Compact disc, CD and distributed by Darla Records. Background ''Turpsycore'' is a t ...

Places

* Cameo, California, a community *

Cameo, Colorado Cameo is an extinct coal mining town located in Mesa County, Colorado, United States. The townsite is located off I-70 Exit 46 at coordinates at an elevation of . History The Cameo post office operated from December 14, 1907, until February ...

, a ghost town * Cameo, West Virginia

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Cameo (apple) Cameo is a cultivar of apple, discovered by chance by the Caudle family in a Dryden, Washington orchard in 1987. Its parentage is uncertain; it may be a cross between Red Delicious and Golden Delicious, since it was found near orchards of thos ...

, 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), ''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 by ...

, an experiment included in the Nimbus-G launch *

Cameo (website) Cameo is an American video-sharing website headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Created in 2016 by Steven Galanis, Martin Blencowe, and Devon Spinnler Townsend, and launched in March 2017, the site allows fans to send some basic information to ...

, 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 direct ...

'', a 1913 French silent film *

The Cameo, Edinburgh The Cameo is a cinema in Tollcross, Edinburgh, Scotland, originally named the King's Cinema. It opened on 8 January 1914, making it one of the oldest cinemas in Scotland still in use. Since becoming the Cameo in 1949 it has had a tradition of ...

, a cinema *

Cameo Shooting and Education Complex The Cameo Shooting and Education Complex is a public shooting and archery range near Palisade, Colorado, owned and managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). The complex is listed as one of Colorado's 43 state parks in CPW's 2023 publication ...

, a shooting and archery range in Colorado *

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 ...

, system of software applications used to plan for and respond to chemical emergencies *

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 *

Cameo Theatre ''Cameo Theatre'' is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1950 to 1955, three times as a summer replacement and once as a mid-season replacement for other series. Television in the round The ...

, TV show *

Cameo Theater The Cameo Theater was built in 1936 and is located at 1445 Washington Avenue in Miami Beach, Florida. The theater has a long history and was a major venue for punk and hardcore acts beginning in 1985, when Richard Shelter struck a deal with o ...

, in Miami, Florida *

Cameo Theatre (Los Angeles) The Cameo Theatre is a historic former movie theater on Broadway in Los Angeles, California. Opened by film mogul W. H. Clune as Clune's Broadway Theatre in 1910, it was one of the first purpose-built movie theaters in the United States. It rem ...

, in Los Angeles, California * Kameo (Video Game mechanic), Having a secondary character help you during battle. Began in

Mortal Kombat 1 ''Mortal Kombat 1'' is a 2023 fighting game developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros. Games. It is the twelfth main installment in the ''Mortal Kombat'' series, and serves as its second Reboot (fiction), reboot after 2011' ...

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