Mo or MO may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

* Mo, a girl in the '' Horrible Histories'' TV series * Mo, also known as Mortimer, in the novel '' Inkheart'' by Cornelia Funke * Mo, in the webcomic '' Jesus and Mo'' * Mo, the main character in the '' Mo's Mischief'' children's book series * Mo, an ophthalmosaurus from '' The Land Before Time'' franchise * MO (Maintenance Operator), a robot in the Filmation series '' Young Sentinels'' * Mo, a main character in '' Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist'' * M-O (Microbe Obliterator), a robot in the film ''

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'' * Mo the clown, a character played by Roy Rene, 20th-century Australian stage comedian * Mo Effanga, in the BBC medical drama series ''Holby City'' *

Mo Harris Mo Harris (also Porter, also known as Big Mo), is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'', who made her first appearance on 18 September 2000, played by Laila Morse. Mo was also played by Lorraine Stanley in the 2004 spin-of ...

, in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Little Mo Mitchell, in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''

Films

* "Mo" (魔 demon), original title of '' The Boxer's Omen'', a 1983 Hong Kong film * ''Mo'' (2010 film), a television movie about British politician Mo Mowlam * ''Mo'' (2016 film), a Tamil horror film

Music

* ''M.O.'' (album), a 2013 album by American hip hop artist Nelly *

M.O M.O are an English girl group consisting of members Annie Ashcroft and Chanal Benjilali, and previously Frankee Connolly until her departure in June 2017 and Nadine Samuels until her departure in 2020. The group was formed in 2012 by the member ...

, an English pop trio * MØ, a Danish singer * The MO, a Dutch pop band * Mo Awards, annual awards for Australian live entertainment * Yamaha MO, a music synthesizer

Other arts and entertainment

* Mo (Oz), a fictional country in the book ''The Magical Monarch of Mo'' by L. Frank Baum * ''Mo'' (TV series), a 2022 comedy-drama

Businesses and organizations

* Altria Group, formerly Philip Morris (New York Stock Exchange symbol MO) * Calm Air (IATA airline designator MO), an airline based in Thompson, Manitoba, Canada * Milicja Obywatelska, a state police institution in Poland from 1944 to 1990

Language

* Mo (kana), Romanisation of the Japanese kana も and モ * Mo language (disambiguation) ** Deg language (Ghana) ** Wakde language (New Guinea) * Moldavian language (deprecated ISO 639-1 language code "mo")

People

* Mo (given name) * Emperor Mo (disambiguation), the posthumous name of various Chinese emperors * Mo (Chinese surname) * Mo (Korean surname) * MØ, Danish singer songwriter Karen Marie Ørsted (born 1988) * Mr. Mo (rapper), rapper, member of the group Jim Crow * Mr. Mo (singer), member of the Danish band Kaliber * Mo Twister, Filipino radio DJ and TV host Mohan Gumatay (born 1977) * Mo Hayder, a pen name of British crime novelist Beatrice Clare Dunkel (1962–2021) * Mo (wrestler), ring name of Robert Horne (born 1964), professional wrestler * Mariano Rivera, Panamaian-American retired baseball player (born 1969), nicknamed "Mo"

Places

Norway

* Mo i Rana, a town in Rana municipality, Nordland county * Mo, Agder, a village in Vegårshei municipality, Agder county * Mo, Innlandet, a village in Nord-Odal municipality, Innlandet county * Mo, Møre og Romsdal, a village in Surnadal municipality, Møre og Romsdal county * Mo, Telemark, a former municipality in the old Telemark county * Mo, Vestland, a village in Modalen municipality, Vestland county * Mo Church (disambiguation), a list of several churches by this name in Norway

Elsewhere

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, Ireland (vehicle plate code MO) *

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(ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code MO) *

Missouri Missouri (''see #Etymology and pronunciation, pronunciation'') is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it border ...

, US state (postal abbreviation MO) *

Moscow Oblast Moscow Oblast (, , informally known as , ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). With a population of 8,524,665 (Russian Census (2021), 2021 Census) living in an area of , it is one of the most densely populate ...

, Russia * Province of Modena, Italy (vehicle plate code MO)

Religion

* Mo (divination), a traditional Tibetan Buddhist technique of divination * Mo (religion), an animist religion of the Zhuang people of China *

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, a movement that attempts to synthesize Orthodox Jewish values with the secular world

Science and technology

Computing

* .mo, country code top level domain of Macau * Magneto-optical drive (magneto-optical storage), a data storage medium * Microsoft Office, an office software suite * Mode of operation, in encryption block ciphers * Motivating operation, a term describing the effectiveness of consequences in operant conditioning

Other uses in science and technology

* Mo (grist mill) (磨), ancient Chinese stone implements used to grind grain into flour * '' Magnus and Oberhettinger'' aka "''Formulas and Theorems for the Functions of Mathematical Physics''", a mathematics book on special functions * Manual override, a mechanism wherein control is taken from an automated system and given to the user * Metalorganics, also known as organometallics, in chemistry and materials science * Molecular orbital, a mathematical function describing the wave-like behavior of an electron in a molecule *

Molybdenum Molybdenum is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Mo (from Neo-Latin ''molybdaenum'') and atomic number 42. The name derived from Ancient Greek ', meaning lead, since its ores were confused with lead ores. Molybdenum minerals hav ...

, symbol Mo, a chemical element * Momentary open (MO), a group of electrical switches

Vehicles

* MO-class small guard ship, a class of small ships produced before and during World War II for the Soviet Navy * Morris Oxford MO, an automobile produced by Morris Motors of the United Kingdom from 1948 to 1954

Other uses

* Mo (Chinese zoology), a name that semantically changed from "giant panda", to "a mythical chimera", to "tapir" * '' Modus operandi'' (abbreviation m.o.), Latin meaning "mode of operation"; distinctive behavior patterns of an entity *

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(abbreviation mo.), a unit of time of approximately 30 days * Operation Mo, or the Port Moresby Operation, a Japanese plan to take the Australian Territory of New Guinea during World War II * Medical officer (disambiguation) * The Australian English diminutive word for

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