Cairo (disambiguation)

Cairo is the capital city of Egypt. It may also refer to:

Places

Canada

• Cairo, Ontario, a community in Dawn-Euphemia, Ontario, Canada

Italy

• Cairo Montenotte, a comune in the Italian region Liguria
• Pieve del Cairo, a comune in the Italian region Lombardy

United States of America

• Cairo, Georgia
• Cairo, Illinois
• Cairo Township, Renville County, Minnesota
• Cairo, Missouri
• Cairo, Nebraska
• Cairo, New York (disambiguation)
• Cairo, Ohio
• Cairo, Stark County, Ohio
• Cairo, Oklahoma
• Cairo, Oregon
• Cairo, West Virginia

Computing

• Cairo (operating system), the internal Microsoft code name for a 1990s technology project
• Cairo (graphics), a free software vector graphics library

Typography

• Cairo (Intertype typeface), a typeface by Intertype Corporation
• Cairo (dingbat font), a bitmap dingbat font on early Macintosh computers

Film

• Cairo (1942 film), an American film starring Jeanette MacDonald
• Cairo (1963 film), an American film starring George Sanders
• The Purple Rose of Cairo, an American film directed by Woody Allen starring Mia Farrow

Music

• Cairo (band), a progressive rock band
• Cairo, Illinois (song), a song from the 1974 musical film Huckleberry Finn
• L'oca del Cairo, an opera buffa

People

• Francesco Cairo, a 17th century Italian painter
• Miguel Cairo, a Major League Baseball player
• Ellery Cairo, Dutch soccer player

Literature

• Cairo Jim, a popular series of children's books by Australian author Geoffrey McSkimming
• Cairo Trilogy, a trilogy of novels written by Naguib Mahfouz
• Cairo poets, a literary group based in Cairo, Egypt, during World War II
• Cairo (comics), a graphic novel by G. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker

Ships

• HMS Cairo (D87), a ship in the Royal Navy
• USS Cairo (1861), an ironclad river gunboat in the United States Navy during the 19th century
• SS Cairo - steamships named Cairo
• MV Cairo - motor vessels named Cairo

Other uses

• Cairo (dog), one of the US Navy Seals who was part of the mission to kill Osama bin Laden
• Cairo 52, refers to the fifty-two men who were arrested on May 11, 2001, aboard a floating gay nightclub called the Queen Boat, which was moored on the Nile in Cairo, Egypt, and who were twice tried
• The Cairo apartment building in Washington, D.C.
• Cairo Conference, a meeting between the Allied position against Japan during World War II
• Cairo Declaration, a result from Cairo Conference at Cairo, Egypt, on 1943-11-27
• Cairo Gang, a group of 18 MI5 agents sent to Dublin during the Anglo-Irish War
• Cairo pentagonal tiling, a geometrical pattern
• Cairo Road, an important thoroughfare in Lusaka, Zambia
• Cairo Station, a fictional orbital Super MAC defence platform in the Halo 2 video game
• International Conference on Population and Development Cairo conference, ICPD, at Cairo, Egypt, September 1994
• CAIRO, an acronym for clarifying responsibilities for a process or a project

See also

• Kairo (disambiguation)