Cairo (disambiguation) explained

Cairo is the capital city of Egypt.

Cairo may also refer to:

Places

United States

• Cairo, Georgia, a city
• Cairo, Illinois, a city
• Cairo Precinct, Alexander County, Illinois
• Cairo, Indiana, an unincorporated community
• Cairo, Kansas, an unincorporated community
• Cairo Township, Renville County, Minnesota
• Cairo, Missouri, a village
• Cairo, Nebraska, a village
• Cairo, New York, a town
  • Cairo (CDP), New York, a census-designated place in the town
• Cairo, Ohio, a village
• Cairo, Stark County, Ohio, an unincorporated community
• Cairo, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community
• Cairo, Oregon, an unincorporated community
• Cairo, Crockett County, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
• Cairo, Sumner County, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
• Cairo, West Virginia, a town

Elsewhere

• Cairo, a community in the township of Dawn-Euphemia, Ontario, Canada
• Cairo Governorate, Egypt
• Cairo Montenotte, a commune in the Liguria region of Italy
• Cape Cairo, Nunavut, Canada
• El Cairo, Colombia, a town and municipality
• Monte Cairo, a mountain in the Lazio region of Italy

People

• Cairo (surname)
• Cairo Santos (born 1991), American football placekicker

Ships

• HMS Cairo (D87), a 1918 ship in the Royal Navy
• USS Cairo (1861), an ironclad river gunboat in the United States Navy during the 19th century
• RMS Cairo, original name of HMT Royal Edward, a passenger ship sunk during the First World War
• German auxiliary cruiser Stier, originally the freighter Cairo

Arts and entertainment

• Cairo (1942 film), an American film starring Jeanette MacDonald
• Cairo (1963 film), an American film starring George Sanders
• Cairo (comics), a 2007 graphic novel by G. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker
• Cairo (novel), a 2013 novel by Chris Womersley
• Cairo Trilogy, a 1956 trilogy of novels written by Naguib Mahfouz
• Joel Cairo, a major character in the novel The Maltese Falcon and its film adaptations
• "Cairo", a song by Andy Partridge from Take Away / The Lure of Salvage
• "Cairo" (Karol G and Ovy on the Drums song), 2022

Businesses

• Cairo International Bank, a commercial bank in Uganda
• Cairo Aviation, a charter airline based in Cairo, Egypt
• Air Cairo, a low fare airline based in Cairo, Egypt

Computing

• Cairo (dingbat font), a bitmap dingbat font on early Macintosh computers
• Cairo (graphics), a free software vector graphics library
• Cairo (operating system), the internal Microsoft code name for a 1990s technology project

Other uses

• Cairo (dog), a US Navy SEAL war dog who was part of the mission to kill Osama bin Laden
• The Cairo, an apartment building in Washington, D.C.
• Cairo Gang, a group of 18 MI5 agents sent to Dublin during the Anglo-Irish War
• Cairo Road, an important thoroughfare in Lusaka, Zambia
• , an acronym for clarifying responsibilities for a process or a project

See also

• Cairo poets, a literary group based in Cairo, Egypt, during World War II
• Cairo pentagonal tiling, a geometrical pattern
  • Kairo (disambiguation)
• Chi Rho, an ancient Christian symbol
• Chiro (disambiguation)
• Clairo (born 1998), American singer-songwriter