Kano

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Kano may refer to:

Places

• Kano State, a state in Northern Nigeria
• Kano (city), a city in Nigeria, and the capital of Kano State
  • Kingdom of Kano, a Hausa kingdom between the 10th and 14th centuries
  • Sultanate of Kano, a Hausa kingdom between the 14th and 19th centuries
  • Kano Emirate, a 19th-century Islamic state

People

Mononym

• Kano (British musician) (born 1985), British rapper
• Kano (comics) (born 1973), Spanish comic book artist
• Kano (Japanese musician), Japanese musician and virtual YouTuber

Surname

• Kanō Jigorō (嘉納 治五郎, 1860–1938), Japanese founder of Judo
• Aminu Kano (1920–1983), Nigerian politician
• David Kano (actor) (born 1987), American actor, writer and producer
• Eiko Kano (狩野 英孝, born 1982), Japanese comedian and singer
• Kano sisters, Kyoko Kano (叶 恭子, born 1962) and Mika Kano (叶 美香, born 1967), Japanese celebrities
• Michihiko Kano (鹿野 道彦, 1942–2021), Japanese politician
• Miyuki Kano (狩野 美雪, born 1977), Japanese volleyball player
• Noriaki Kano (狩野 紀昭, born 1940), Japanese developer of the Kano model
• Ren Kano (加納 錬, born 1994), Japanese footballer
• Thea Kano (born 1965), American conductor
• Tokio Kano (加納 時男, 1935–2017), Japanese politician

Fictional characters

• Kano (Mortal Kombat), from the Mortal Kombat franchise
• Kano Kirishima, from the visual novel Air.
• Kano, the leader of "Bad Company", a 2000AD comic strip
• David Kano, from Space: 1999

Other uses

• Kano (band), an early-1980s Italian dance music group
• Kano (film), a 2014 Taiwanese baseball film directed by Umin Boya
• KANO (FM), a radio station (89.1 FM) in Hilo, Hawaii
• Kano baseball team, a defunct Taiwanese baseball team
• Kano Chronicle, an account of the history of the Hausa people
• Kano Computing, a British computer hardware and software company
• Kano model, a theory of new product development and customer satisfaction
• Kanō school, a school of Japanese painting
• Kano, an arcade game by Glitchers
• Rondo, a variety of the Dutch pastry gevulde koek

See also

• Kanoo, an Arabic family name

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This page was last edited on 14 January 2024, at 21:45