# Cao

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'''Cao''' or '''CAO''' may refer to:
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==Companies or organizations==
*[Air China Cargo](/source/Air_China_Cargo), ICAO airline designator CAO
*[CA Oradea](/source/CA_Oradea), Romanian football club 
*[CA Osasuna](/source/CA_Osasuna), Spanish football club
*[Canadian Association of Optometrists](/source/Canadian_Association_of_Optometrists)
*[Canadian Association of Orthodontists](/source/Canadian_Association_of_Orthodontists)
*[Central Allocation Office](/source/Central_Allocation_Office), cross border electricity transmission capacity auction office
*[Central Applications Office](/source/Central_Applications_Office), Irish organisation that oversees college applications
*[Civil Aviation Office](/source/Civil_Aviation_Office) of Poland
*[Iran Civil Aviation Organization](/source/Iran_Civil_Aviation_Organization)
*Office of the [Chief Administrative Officer of the United States House of Representatives](/source/Chief_Administrative_Officer_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives)
*[Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman](/source/Compliance_Advisor%2FOmbudsman), accountability arm of the World Bank
*Council for Adult Education, later [Centre for Adult Education](/source/Centre_for_Adult_Education), in Victoria, Australia
*[Commission on Audit](/source/Commission_on_Audit)

==Job titles==
*Chief Academic Officer of a University, often titled the [Provost](/source/Provost_(education))
*[Chief accounting officer](/source/Chief_accounting_officer) of a company
*[Chief administrative officer](/source/Chief_administrative_officer) of a company
*[Chief analytics officer](/source/Chief_analytics_officer) of a company
*[Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman](/source/Compliance_Advisor%2FOmbudsman), an independent office that reviews complaints

==Names==
*[Cao (Chinese surname)](/source/Cao_(Chinese_surname)) (曹)
*[Cao (Vietnamese surname)](/source/Cao_(Vietnamese_surname))

==People==
*[Cao (footballer, born 1968)](/source/Cao_(footballer%2C_born_1968)), Portuguese footballer
*[Cao Cao](/source/Cao_Cao) (died 220), founder of Cao Wei, China
*[Cao Hamburger](/source/Cao_Hamburger) (born 1962), Brazilian director, screenwriter and producer
*[Cao Pi](/source/Cao_Pi) (c.187–226), emperor of Cao Wei, China
*[Cao Yu](/source/Cao_Yu) (1910–1996), Chinese playwright
*[Cao Yupeng](/source/Cao_Yupeng) (born 1990), Chinese snooker player
*[Carlos Alberto Caó](/source/Carlos_Alberto_Ca%C3%B3) (1941–2018), Brazilian activist, lawyer, and politician
*[Diogo Cão](/source/Diogo_C%C3%A3o), a 15th-century Portuguese explorer 
*[Joseph Cao](/source/Joseph_Cao) (born 1967), United States politician
*[Lady of Cao](/source/Lady_of_Cao), a Moche mummy, Peru
*[Longbing Cao](/source/Longbing_Cao) (born 1969), data scientist
*[Pierre Cao](/source/Pierre_Cao) (1937–2026), Luxembourgish composer and conductor

==Places==
*[Cao (state)](/source/Cao_(state)), a Chinese vassal state of the Zhou Dynasty (1046 - 221 BCE)
*[Cao County](/source/Cao_County), Shandong, China
*[Cao Wei](/source/Cao_Wei), also called Wei, one of the regimes that competed for control of China during the Three Kingdoms period (220 - 280 CE)
*[Magdalena de Cao](/source/Magdalena_de_Cao), a town on the north coast of Peru, surrounded by major archaeological sites, c. 50km north of the city of Trujillo

==Other uses==
*[Cao (bull)](/source/Cao_(bull)), a legendary bull in Meitei mythology
*CaO, the chemical symbol for [calcium oxide](/source/calcium_oxide)
*''[Cão!](/source/C%C3%A3o!)'', an album by Portuguese band Ornatos Violeta
*[CA Osasuna](/source/CA_Osasuna), a Spanish sport club
*a [Child Arrangement Order](/source/Child_Arrangement_Order) under English family law
*[Chlorophyllide-a oxygenase](/source/Chlorophyllide-a_oxygenase), an enzyme
*[Cold air outbreak](/source/Cold_air_outbreak), an intense and/or prolonged cold weather wave of air
*Controller Access Object, as described in the [ORiN](/source/ORiN) robot interface

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