Yao
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Yao can refer to:
- The name of the demiurge in Gnostic scripture.
- Yao, a town in Chad
- Yao (Africa), the waYao people of southern Africa and their language
- Yao, a city in Japan
- The Yao people of China and southeast Asia
- Emperor Yao, a mythical Chinese ruler
- The transliteration of Chinese family names 姚, 銚, and 么.
- Yao Wenyuan, a member of the Gang of Four
- Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, a computer scientist
- Yao Ming, a basketball player
- Kazuki Yao, a seiyu
- Francis Yao, a liver transplantation expert at UCSF
- Yao, a character in Disney's 1998 animated film Mulan.