Yao
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Yao can refer to:
- The name of the demiurge in Gnostic scripture.
- Yao, a town in Chad
- Yao (ethnic group in Africa), the waYao people of south-central Africa and their language
- Yao, a city in Japan
- The Yao people of China and Southeast Asia
- Emperor Yao, a mythical Chinese ruler
- The transliteration of Chinese family names 姚, 銚, and 么.
- Yao Wenyuan, a member of the Gang of Four
- Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, a computer scientist
- Yao Ming, a basketball player
- Kazuki Yao, a seiyū
- Francis Yao, a liver transplantation expert at the University of California, San Francisco
- Yao, name given to any male, born on a Thursday in the Ashanti region in Ghana, West africa (a recent trend in spelling has changed the name to 'Yaw')
- Yao, a character in Disney's 1998 animated film Mulan.
- Yao, a French children's TV series of the 1970s – about an African boy called Yao
- YAO, the IATA code of Yaoundé Airport.
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