Tao (disambiguation)

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Tao or TAO may refer to:

• Tao, a Chinese character that was of pivotal meaning in ancient Chinese philosophy and religion
  • Tao Te Ching, an ancient Chinese philosophical text
  • Taoism, a philosophical school and folk religion based on the texts the Tao Te Ching
• Tao, a post-industrial video game for the Famicom
• Tao (album), and album by Rick Springfield
• TAO (Collective), a radical tech organization based in Canada
• Tao (comics), fictional character from the comic book WildCATS
• Tao (historical region), part of the Georgian Tao-Klarjeti principalities
• TAO (software) (The ACE ORB), a freely available, open-source, and standards-compliant real-time C++ implementation of CORBA
• Tao Framework, a library giving .NET and mono developers access to popular graphics and gaming libraries like OpenGL and SDL
• TAO (song), Do As Infinity's final single, released 2005
• Tao people, a Taiwanese aboriginal peoples, native to tiny outlying Orchid Island
• Tao Group, a software company headquartered in Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
• Ko Tao, an island in the Gulf of Thailand
• Tamke-Allan Observatory, in Tennessee, United States
• Transitioning Applications to Ontologies, a European project in the FP6 framework
• Ten Acre Observatory, in Oklahoma, United States
• Frank Seemann, aka Tao or Tao/Cream, an Atari ST demoscene musician with coding abilities related to music
• Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus, a video game for Xbox
• Track At Once, an optical disc recording mode
• Tropical Atmosphere Ocean, a scientific project of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• The International Air Transport Association airport code for Qingdao Liuting International Airport
• The Tao "T.J." Jones, protagonist in Chris Crutcher's novel Whale Talk

Persons with the surname Tao include:

• Seqenenre Tao II, Egyptian ruler of Thebes who started the process of ousting the Hyksos kings from Egypt
• Senakhtenre Tao I, father of Seqenenre Tao
• Tao Qian, influential pre-Tang Dynasty Chinese poet
• Terence Tao, an Australian mathematician, 2006 Fields Medalist

Persons with the given name Tao include:

• Wang Tao, a Qing dynasty translator, reformer, political columnist, newspaper publisher, and fiction writer
• Wu Tao, a Chinese discus thrower

Fictional characters with the surname Tao include:

• Tao Ren, a character from the manga Shaman King
• Tao Jun, a character from the manga Shaman King

Fictional characters with the given name Tao include:

• Tao, a character in the TV series The Mysterious Cities of Gold

[edit] See also

• Tao Pai Pai, a character in Dragon Ball media
• DAO
• Tao Yang