Kano may refer to:

Places

Kano State Kano State (Hausa: ''Jihar Kano''جىِهَر كَنوُ) (Fula: Leydi Kano 𞤤𞤫𞤴𞤣𞤭 𞤳𞤢𞤲𞤮𞥅 ) is one of the 36 states of Nigeria, located in the northern region of the country. According to the national census done in ...

, a state in Northern Nigeria *

Kano (city) Kano ( Ajami: كانو) is a city in northern Nigeria and the capital of Kano State. It is the second largest city in Nigeria after Lagos, with over four million citizens living within ; located in the Savanna, south of the Sahel, Kano is a m ...

, a city in Nigeria, and the capital of Kano State **

Kingdom of Kano The Kingdom of Kano was a Hausa kingdom in the north of what is now Northern Nigeria that dates back before 1000 AD, and lasted until the proclamation of the Sultanate of Kano by King Ali Yaji Dan Tsamiya in 1349. The kingdom was then replaced by ...

, a Hausa kingdom between the 10th and 14th centuries ** Sultanate of Kano, a Hausa kingdom between the 14th and 19th centuries **

Kano Emirate The Kano Emirate was a Muslim state in Northern Nigeria formed in 1349 during the reign of Sarkin Kano Ali Yaji when Wangarawa brought Islam into Kano and Sarki Ali made Islam as State religion (www.rumburilmi.com.ng). Sarki Muhammadu Rumfa (1 ...

, a 19th-century Islamic state

People

Mononym

* Kano (British musician) (born 1985), British rapper *

Kano (comics) Kano is the pseudonym of Spanish comic book artist Jose Ángel Cano López. Biography Kano began his career at the age of 13, editing Spanish-language comics fanzines; at 15 he was already doing layouts and design work for Planeta-DeAgostini ( ...

(born 1973), Spanish comic book artist *

Kano (Japanese musician) is a Japanese musician and virtual YouTuber who is signed to Imperial Records. She began her artist activities as a doujin artist, uploading songs on the video-sharing website Nicovideo, before making her major debut in 2015 with the release o ...

, Japanese musician and virtual YouTuber

Surname

Kanō Jigorō was a Japanese educator, athlete, and the founder of Judo. Along with Ju-Jutsu, Judo was one of the first Japanese martial arts to gain widespread international recognition, and the first to become an official Olympic sport. Pedagogical in ...

(1860–1938), Japanese founder of Judo * Aminu Kano (1920–1983), Nigerian politician * David Kano (actor) (born 1987), American actor, writer and producer * Eiko Kano (born 1982), Japanese comedian and singer * Kano sisters, Kyoko (born 1962) and Mika (born 1967), Japanese celebrities *

Michihiko Kano was a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan. He was Minister of Agriculture. He lost his seat in the 16 December 2012 general election. Kano was born in Yamagata. He graduated from Gakushuin University is a private unive ...

(born 1942), Japanese politician *, Japanese volleyball player *

Noriaki Kano Noriaki Kano (狩野紀昭 ''Kanō Noriaki,'' pronounced ) is a Japanese educator, lecturer, writer, and consultant in the field of quality management. He is the developer of a customer satisfaction model (now known as the Kano model) whose simp ...

(born 1940), Japanese developer of the Kano model *, Japanese footballer *

Thea Kano Thea Kano (born August 1, 1965) is an American conductor. She is the Founder of the New York City Master Chorale, and was its Artistic Director until the end of the 2018–2019 season. She served as the Associate Music Director of the Gay Men's ...

(born 1965), American conductor

Fictional characters

* Kano (''Mortal Kombat''), from the ''Mortal Kombat'' franchise *Kano Kirishima, from the

visual novel A , often abbreviated as VN, is a form of digital semi-interactive fiction. Visual novels are often associated with and used in the medium of video games, but are not always labeled as such themselves. They combine a textual narrative with sta ...

'' Air''. *Kano, the leader of "

Bad Company Bad Company are an English rock supergroup that was formed in 1973 by singer Paul Rodgers, guitarist Mick Ralphs, drummer Simon Kirke and bassist Boz Burrell. Bad Company ''AllMusic'' Peter Grant, who managed the rock band Led Zeppelin, a ...

", a 2000AD comic strip *David Kano, from '' Space: 1999''

Other uses

Kano (band) Kano was an Italo disco music project formed in Milan, Italy in 1979 by producers/musicians Luciano Ninzatti, Stefano Pulga and Matteo Bonsanto. History Kano's debut single was the 1980 international hit "I'm Ready", combining elements of 197 ...

, an early-1980s Italian dance music group * ''Kano'' (film), a 2014 Taiwanese baseball film directed by Umin Boya *

KANO (FM) Kano may refer to: Places *Kano State, a state in Northern Nigeria * Kano (city), a city in Nigeria, and the capital of Kano State **Kingdom of Kano, a Hausa kingdom between the 10th and 14th centuries ** Sultanate of Kano, a Hausa kingdom betwee ...

, a radio station (89.1 FM) in Hilo, Hawaii *

Kano baseball team The , officially the , was a Taiwanese baseball team established in 1928 in Japanese Formosa. The team was a motley crew that consisted of Han Chinese (Hoklo and Hakka), Taiwanese indigenous people Taiwanese indigenous peoples (formerly Taiwa ...

, a defunct Taiwanese baseball team * Kano Chronicle, an account of the history of the Hausa people *

Kano Computing Kano Computing is a global computer hardware and software start-up based in London. History Kano was founded in January 2013 by Alex Klein, Saul Klein, and Yonatan Raz-Fridman. The company's name originates from Kanō Jigorō, the creator of j ...

, a British computer hardware and software company *

Kano model The Kano model is a theory for product development and customer satisfaction developed in the 1980s by Professor Noriaki Kano, which classifies customer preferences into five categories. Categories These categories have been translated into E ...

, a theory of new product development and customer satisfaction *

Kanō school The is one of the most famous schools of Japanese painting. The Kanō school of painting was the dominant style of painting from the late 15th century until the Meiji period which began in 1868, by which time the school had divided into many ...