Kyo or KYO can refer to:

People

*, Japanese actress *, Japanese actor *, Japanese former professional boxer *, Japanese kickboxer *, Japanese educator and politician *, Japanese-American poet *, Japanese rugby union player * Kyo Maclear, Canadian novelist and children's author *, Japanese footballer *Hanabasami Kyo, Japanese VTuber *Kyo Kaneko, VTuber affiliated with

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Kyo (musician) is a Japanese musician, singer, lyricist and poet. He is best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Dir En Grey. He was formerly in a string of visual kei rock bands, with the most notable being La:Sadie's ...

, Japanese singer-songwriter *Kyo, Japanese singer of the rock band

D'erlanger D'erlanger (stylized as D'ERLANGER) is a Japanese rock band from Kyoto Prefecture, formed in 1983 by guitarist Cipher and bassist Seela. While they originally played speed and power metal, after recruiting drummer Tetsu and vocalist Kyo they s ...

*An alias of English singer-songwriter

Carol Leeming Carolann Coleen Leeming (born 27 November 1957) is a British and Jamaican descent multi-disciplinary artist, writer, singer and musician who is noted for her poetry, plays and musical work. She is best known for her choreopoetry. Leeming's literar ...

Fictional Characters

Kyo Kusanagi is a character in SNK's ''The King of Fighters'' series of fighting games. The character was first introduced in the 1994 video game ''The King of Fighters '94'' as the leader of the Japan team from the series' title tournament. Kyo, head to th ...

, a main character in the video game series ''King of Fighters'' *

Kyo Sohma The characters of ''Fruits Basket'' were created by Natsuki Takaya in the manga written and illustrated by her. The manga was serialized in 136 chapters in the monthly manga magazine ''Hana to Yume'' between January 1999 and November 2006, and c ...

, a character in the manga series ''Fruits Basket'' * Kyō Fujibayashi, a character in the visual novel ''Clannad'' *

Demon Eyes Kyo ''Samurai Deeper Kyo'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akimine Kamijyo. It was serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from May 1999 to May 2006, with its chapters ...

, a character in the manga series ''Samurai Deeper Kyo''

Anime, games and manga

* ''Kyo'', a 1996 Japanese manga series by

Ryōji Minagawa is a Japanese manga artist born in Sumida, Tokyo. He was invited with '' Spriggan'' story writer Hiroshi Takashige to go to a comic convention in Portugal in 1996 as a guest of honor due to his work on ''Spriggan''. He worked on other manga co ...

Music

Kyo (band) Kyo is a French Rock music, rock band with lead vocals by Benoît Poher. The band was first active from 1997 to 2005 with three albums ''Kyo'' (2000), ''Le Chemin (Kyo album), Le Chemin'' (2003) and ''300 Lésions'' (2004) and a string of single ...

, a French rock band ** ''Kyo'' (album)

Places

Kyo Ya Kyo Ya was a Japanese restaurant in New York City. The restaurant had received a Michelin star. See also * List of defunct restaurants of the United States * List of Japanese restaurants * List of Michelin starred restaurants in New York City ...

, was a Japanese restaurant in New York City * Three villages in

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, England: **

East Kyo East Kyo is a small hamlet in the civil parish of Stanley, in County Durham, England. It is situated a short distance to the west of Stanley, close to Annfield Plain Annfield Plain is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated on ...

West Kyo West Kyo (also known locally as Old Kyo) is a small village in County Durham, England, United Kingdom. The name 'kyo' is derived from an old word for 'cow'. It is situated a very short distance to the north of Annfield Plain and to the e ...

New Kyo New Kyo is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated close to the A693 road between Annfield Plain and Stanley, and is slightly larger than nearby East Kyo to the north east and West Kyo, 15 minutes walk via public footpath to the ...

* Kyo Burn, the name of the section of the

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, near the villages * another name for

Kyoto Kyoto ( or ; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. , the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it t ...

, a city in Japan * KYO, the Indian Railways station code for

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, Assam, India

Other

*Kyo, the ISO 639-3 code for

Klon language Kelon, or Klon, (pronounced əlon is a Papuan language of the western tip of Alor Island in the Alor archipelago of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Classification Klon is a member of the Alor–Pantar languages, within the Timor–Alor–Pantar ...

, Indonesia {{disambiguation, given name Japanese unisex given names ja:京 zh:京