Mayo

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Mayo can refer to:

• Mayo Clinic, a world famous medical center in Rochester, Minnesota, United States
• Mayo Medical School, a American medical school that is part of the Mayo Clinic and the Mayo College of Medicine
• Mayonnaise, sometimes abbreviated as mayo
• Mayo College, a secondary educational institution in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India
• Mayo GAA, an inter county Gaelic Athletic Association team
• Mayo language
• Mayo people, an Indigenous ethnic group who live in the Mexican states of Sinaloa and Sonora
• Mayo (TV series), a TV series on BBC first broadcast in 2006
• The Mexican American Youth Organization
• Project Mayo, an open source project by DivX, Inc.

[edit] Places

Ireland

• County Mayo
• Mayo, County Mayo, a village

Australia

• Division of Mayo, an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia

Canada

• Mayo, Quebec, a town
• Mayo, Yukon, a town

United States

• Mayo, Florida, a town
• Mayo, Maryland, a town

Numerous places

• Mayo River, a number of rivers called "Mayo"

[edit] People

• Arthur Mayo (1840 - 1920), recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Barry Mayo, a radio executive
• Charles Herbert Mayo (1845 - 1929), an antiquarian
• Charles Horace Mayo (1865 - 1939), a physician and co-founder of the Mayo Clinic
• Elton Mayo (1880 - 1949), a psychologist and sociologist
• Gilmar Mayo (born 1969), a Colombian high jumper
• Helen Mayo (1878 - 1967), a women's health pioneer
• Iban Mayo (born 1977), a professional bicycle racer
• Jerod Mayo (born 1986), an American football player for the New England Patriots
• Manolito Tolentino Mayo (1955 - 1983), a Philippine artist
• OJ Mayo (born 1987), an American basketball player
• Simon Mayo (born 1958), a disc jockey
• Virginia Mayo (1920 - 2005), an American film actress
• Whitman Mayo (1930 - 2001), an American television actor
• William Mayo, the vicar of Folke, Dorset, England c. 1845
• William Mayo (civil engineer) (c. 1685 - 1744), the civil engineer who laid out the city of Richmond, Virginia
• William B. Mayo, (1860 - 1944), the chief power engineer of Ford Motor Company
• William James Mayo (1861 - 1939), co-founder of the Mayo Clinic
• William Worrall Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic
• Thomas Mayo Brewer (1814 - 1880), an American naturalist
• Richmond Mayo-Smith (1854 - 1901), an American economist

[edit] Fictional characters

• Mayo Kagura, the protagonist of the light novel My-HiME Destiny
• Mayo Sakaki, a character of the series Fushigi Yuugi