Cairo (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Towns or cities in the United States 2 Computing 3 Film 4 Music 5 People 6 Literature 7 Ships 8 Other uses 9 See also

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

[edit] Towns or cities in the United States

• Cairo, Georgia
• Cairo, Illinois
• Cairo Township, Minnesota
• Cairo, Missouri
• Cairo, Nebraska
• Cairo (town), New York
• Cairo, Ohio
• Cairo, Stark County, Ohio
• Cairo, West Virginia

[edit] Computing

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

[edit] Film

• Cairo (1942 film), an American film starring Jeanette MacDonald
• Cairo (1963 film), an American film starring George Sanders

[edit] 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

[edit] People

• Francesco Cairo, a 17th century Italian painter
• Miguel Cairo, a Major League Baseball player
• Cairo Foster, an Asian-American skateboarder
• Ellery Cairo, Dutch soccer player

[edit] 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, a graphic novel by G. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker

[edit] 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

[edit] Other uses

• Cairo 52, a term referring to an incident where fifty-two men were arrested on May 11, 2001
• 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 Montenotte, a comune in the Italian region Liguria
• Cairo pentagonal tiling, a geometrical pattern
• Cairo Road, an important thoroughfare in Lusaka, Zambia
• Pieve del Cairo, a comune in the Italian region Lombardy
• 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

[edit] See also

• Kairo