Gao (disambiguation)
Gao means:
- Gao (palm) , palm species native to Cameroon (Ancistrophyllum secundiflorum)
The following geographical objects are called Gao :
- Gao Region , administrative region with the capital Gao in Mali
- Gao (Burkina Faso) , department and municipality in Burkina Faso
- Gao , city in Mali
- Gao (Yibin) (高 县), Yibin City District, Sichuan Province, China
- Gao Empire , pre-Islamic Empire on the Niger Arch
Gao is the family name of the following people:
- Gao E (* 1962), Chinese sports shooter
- Gao Fenglian (* 1964), Chinese judoka
- Gao Huan (* 1990), Chinese badminton player
- Gao Jing (* 1975), Chinese sports shooter
- Gao Lei (* 1992), Chinese trampoline gymnast
- Gao Lian (playwright) († 1603), Chinese author of plays and encyclopedic works
- Gao Lin (* 1986), Chinese soccer player
- Gao Ling (* 1979), Chinese badminton player
- Gao Min (* 1970), Chinese water diver
- Gao Mobo (* 1952), Australian sinologist
- Gao Ning (* 1982), Singaporean table tennis player
- Gao Shangquan (* 1929), Chinese economist
- Gao Shun († 198), Chinese general
- Gao Shuying (* 1979), Chinese pole vaulter
- Gao Tingyu (* 1997), Chinese speed skater
- Gao Wan (* 1987), Chinese tennis player
- Gao Xiaosheng (1928–1999), Chinese writer
- Gao Xin (* 1994), Chinese tennis player
- Gao Xingjian (* 1940), Sino-French storyteller and Nobel Prize winner
- Gao Xinglong (* 1994), Chinese long jumper
- Gao Xinyu (* 1997), Chinese tennis player
- Gao Xuejie , Chinese climate scientist
- Gao Yang (shot putter) (* 1993), Chinese shot putter
- Gao Yang (snooker player) (* 2004), Chinese snooker player
- Personal name of Qi Wenxuan Di (r. 550–559), emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty
- Gao Yu (* 1944), Chinese journalist and system critic
- Gao Yulan (* 1982), Chinese rower
- Gao Zhisheng (* 1964), Chinese civil rights attorney
- Gao Zhiguo (* 1955), Chinese lawyer and judge at the International Tribunal for the Sea
- George F. Gao (* 1961), Chinese virologist and immunologist; General Director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- Godfrey Gao (1984–2019), Taiwanese-Canadian actor and model
- Grace Gao (* 1989), Canadian badminton player
- Huajian Gao (* 1963), American engineering scientist
- Joseph Gao Hong-xiao (* 1945), Chinese clergyman, Archbishop of Kaifeng
- Yunfeng Gao (* approx. 1966), Chinese entrepreneur and investor
GAO is an acronym for
- Sex reassignment surgery
- Society for automation and organization , formerly manufacturer of chip cards, former subsidiary of Giesecke & Devrient
- Government Accountability Office , a investigative body of the United States Congress
See also:
- Gao-Guenie , a stone meteorite that fell in Burkina Faso in 1960
- Gaoh