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Rao or RAO may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Rao, a star of Krypton in various comics
• Rao, a Greyhawk deity in Dungeons & Dragons: World of Greyhawk
• Raō, the Japanese name for Raoh, in Fist of the North Star
• Ramji Rao, in Indian films including Ramji Rao Speaking, 1989

People

• Rao (Indian surname), including a list of people with the name
• Rao (Chinese surname), including a list of people with the name

Places

• Rao, West Sumatra, Indonesia
• Råö, Kungsbacka Municipality, Halland County, Sweden
• Rao, Senegal
  • Rao Arrondissement
• Rao Prefecture, in imperial China

Science and technology

• Rao (wasp), a genus of insects in the family Platygastridae
• Recent African origin of modern humans (RAO), a paleoanthropological theory
• Recurrent airway obstruction (RAO), a respiratory disease in horses
• Response amplitude operator (RAO), an engineering statistic in ship design
• Ribose aminooxazoline (RAO), an intermediate organic compound in origin of life chemistry

Other uses

• Rao (title), or Rai
• Rao language, in Papua New Guinea
• Rawa people, an ethnic group in Southeast Asia
• Rao's, an Italian restaurant in New York City, U.S.
• Leite Lopes Airport, Brazil, IATA code RAO

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Rao
• All pages with titles containing Rao
• Rai (disambiguation)
• Ray (disambiguation)
• Rau (disambiguation)
• Cramér–Rao bound, a statistical concept
• Rao–Blackwell theorem, a theorem in statistics

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