Mayo
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Places called Mayo include:
- County Mayo, a county in Ireland
- Mayo, a settlement in County Mayo, Ireland
- Mayo, a place in the U.S. state of Florida
- Mayo, a town in Trinidad and Tobago
- The Division of Mayo, an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia
- Mayo, a town in Quebec, Canada
- Mayo, a town in Yukon, Canada
- Various rivers called Mayo
Mayo also refers to:
- the Mayo Clinic, a famous medical center in Rochester, Minnesota
- the Mayo people a Native American ethnic group who live in the states of Sinaloa and Sonora, Mexico.
- Mayo language
- mayo, a slang term for mayonnaise
- Mayo is a TV series on BBC (first broadcast in 2006)
People with the surname Mayo include:
- Arthur Mayo (1840 – 1920), recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Barry Mayo, radio executive
- Charles Horace Mayo (1865 – 1939), physician, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic
- Charles Herbert Mayo ((1845 – 1929), antiquarian
- Elton Mayo (1880 – 1949), psychologist and sociologist
- Helen Mayo (1878 – 1967), women's health pioneer
- Iban Mayo (born 1977), professional bicycle racer
- James Mayo (born 1975), singer-songwriter from Nashville, TN; "Get Ur Mind Rite"
- Manolito Tolentino Mayo (1955 – 1983), artist
- OJ Mayo (born 1987), basketball player
- Steven Mayo (born 1960), founder of Emissary International, a clinical research consulting company see www.Emissary.com
- Simon Mayo (born 1958), disc jockey
- Virginia Mayo (1920 – 2005), film actress
- Whitman Mayo (1930 – 2001), actor
- William B. Mayo, ((1860 – 1944), chief power engineer of the Ford Motor Company
- William James Mayo (1861 – 1939), co-founder of the Mayo Clinic
- William Leonidas Mayo (1861 – 1917), founder and first president of East Texas Normal College
- William Worrall Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic
- William Mayo (born c. 1685), civil engineer who laid out the city of Richmond, Virginia
- William Mayo, the vicar of Folke, Dorset, England in about 1845
- Thomas Mayo Brewer (1814 – 1880), naturalist
- Richmond Mayo-Smith (1854 – 1901), economist
- Antoine Malliarakis Aka Mayo, (1905-1990) a Greek-French painter and movies costumes designer.