Caro

Caro is a Basque^[1] surname and may refer to:

Places

• Caro, Michigan, United States
• Caro, Morbihan, France
• Çaro, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France

People

• Abraham ben Raphael Caro, Turkish rabbi
• Annibale Caro, poet
• Anthony Caro, sculptor
• David Caro, German pedagogue
• Elme Marie Caro, philosopher
• Heinrich Caro, industrial chemist, inventor of the Caro's acid (peroxymonosulfuric acid)
• Horatio Caro, chess player
• Isabelle Caro, French actress
• Isaac ben Joseph Caro, Spanish rabbi
• José María Caro, Chilean Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• Joseph ben Ephraim Caro, rabbi
• Joseph Chayyim ben Isaac Selig Caro, Polish rabbi
• Nydia Caro, Puerto Rican singer and actress
• Niki Caro, film director, producer and screenwriter
• Nikodem Caro, industrial chemist, co-inventor of the Frank-Caro process to produce calcium cyanamide
• Marc Caro, filmmaker
• Mike Caro, professional poker player and instructor
• Robert Caro, biographer

Chemistry

• Frank-Caro process, used to produce cyanamide from calcium carbide and nitrogen gas in an electric furnace
• Linde-Frank-Caro process, another process used to produce hydrogen from water gas
• Peroxymonosulfuric acid, also known as Caro's acid

Others

• CARO, The Computer AntiVirus Researcher's Organization
• Caro Instant Beverage, a drink by Nestlé
• Caro (horse), Thoroughbred racehorse and Champion Sire
• Caro Ru Lushe, a fictional character in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
• The FSO Polonez, a car known in some countries as the Caro
• Caro, a Vietnamese variant of the game Gomoku

See also

• Karo (disambiguation)

References