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Hao (surname) Hao is the Standard Chinese, Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character, Chinese characters. It is listed 77th in the Song dynasty Chinese classics, classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. A ...

(Chinese: ) *

Hao (given name) Hao is the pinyin and Wade–Giles transliteration of multiple Chinese masculine given names, written in Chinese as 浩, 皓, 昊, 豪, 灏, or other characters. People with this name include: * Sun Hao (孙皓，243 – January or February 2 ...

Hao (video gamer) Chen Zhihao (born July 28, 1990) (), better known simply as Hao, is a Chinese former professional ''Dota 2'' player, best known for winning The International 2014 with Newbee. He is known to have been active among the Dota 2 community from 20 ...

, Chinese professional ''Dota 2'' player *

Heather O'Reilly Heather Ann O'Reilly (born January 2, 1985) is an American former professional women's soccer player who played as a midfielder. She played for the United States women's national soccer team (USWNT), with whom she won three Olympic gold medals ...

, Professional soccer player

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Hao (city) Hao or Haojing, also called Zongzhou (), was one of the two settlements comprising the capital of the Western Zhou dynasty (1066–770 BCE), the other being Fēng or Fēngjīng (). Together they were known as Fenghao and stood on opposite banks o ...

, or Haojing (), capital of the Western Zhou, near present-day Xi'an **

Xi'an Xi'an is the list of capitals in China, capital of the Chinese province of Shaanxi. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong plain, the city is the third-most populous city in Western China after Chongqing and Chengdu, as well as the most populou ...

, China, derived from the ancient city *

Hao (French Polynesia) Hao, or Haorangi, is a large coral atoll in the central part of the Tuamotu Archipelago. It has c. 1000 people living on . It was used to house the military support base for the nuclear tests on Mururoa. Because of its shape, French explorer L ...

, an atoll **

Hao Airport Hao Airport is an airport on Hao Island in French Polynesia. The airport is from the village of Otepa. Its unusually long runway (for the atoll's present population) was constructed to permit the heavy aircraft transporting materials for nucl ...

Hao Prefecture Haozhou or Hao Prefecture () was a '' zhou'' (prefecture) in imperial China centering on modern Fengyang County, Anhui, China. It existed (intermittently) from 582 to 1367. Geography The administrative region of Haozhou in the Tang dynasty is in ...

(), of imperial China * Hao River, in Thailand *

Butler County Regional Airport Butler County Regional Airport (Hogan Field) is a publicly owned, public use airport at 2820 Airport Road East in Hamilton, Ohio. It is owned by the Butler County Board of Commissioners. History The airport was founded in July 1929 by a membe ...

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Art name An art name (pseudonym or pen name), also known by its native names ''hào'' (in Mandarin Chinese), ''gō'' (in Japanese), ' (in Korean), and ''tên hiệu'' (in Vietnamese), is a professional name used by artists, poets and writers in the Sinosp ...

(Chinese: , ''hào'') *

Hakö language Hakö is an Austronesian language The Austronesian languages ( ) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese i ...

, spoken in Papua New Guinea * hào, a disused monetary subunit of the

Vietnamese đồng The dong (; ; ; sign: ₫ or informally đ and sometimes Đ in Vietnamese; code: VND) is the currency of Vietnam, in use since 3 May 1978. It is issued by the State Bank of Vietnam. The dong was also the currency of the predecessor states of ...

* , a fictional character and the main antagonist in the manga and anime ''Shaman King'' *

High Altitude Observatory The High Altitude Observatory (HAO) is a laboratory of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). HAO operates the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory on Hawaii (island), Hawaii and a research institute in Boulder, Colorado. Its staff condu ...

High Armanen Order Ariosophy and Armanism are esoteric ideological systems that were largely developed by Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels and Guido von List, respectively, in Austria between 1890 and 1930. The term 'Ariosophy', which translates to ''wisdom of the Arya ...

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Rauvolfia sandwicensis ''Rauvolfia sandwicensis'', the devil's-pepper, also known as ''hao'' in the Hawaiian language, is a species of flowering plant in the milkweed family, Apocynaceae, that is endemic to Hawaii. It is a shrub, a small tree reaching in height, or, ...

'' (Hawaiian: '), a flowering plant *

Hydroxylamine oxidoreductase Hydroxylamine oxidoreductase (HAO) is an enzyme found in the prokaryotic genus '' Nitrosomonas.'' It plays a critically important role in the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle as part of the metabolism of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria. The substrate is ...

, an enzyme involved in the nitrogen cycle

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