Lo may refer to any of the following:

Arts and entertainment

* Comic LO, a Japanese ''lolicon''-focused erotic manga magazine * ''

Lo! ''Lo!'' is the third published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort (first edition 1931). In it he details a wide range of unusual phenomena. In the final chapter of the book he proposes a new cosmology that the earth is stationary in spac ...

'', the third published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort * L.O., a fictional character in the Playhouse Disney show Happy Monster Band * ''Lo'' (film), a 2009 independent film *

Lo Recordings Lo Recordings is a label founded in 1995 by Jon Tye. They are noted for their strong visual style thanks to Non-Format, with whom they work very closely and won a D&AD award for several of their releases sleeves. Musical style Lo recordings m ...

, a London-based record company established in 1995 * ''Law & Order'' (franchise), several related American television series created by Dick Wolf * '' Lost Odyssey'', a 2007 role-playing video game * ''

Lore Olympus ''Lore Olympus'' is a Romance comics, romance webcomic created by New Zealand artist Rachel Smythe. The comic is a modern retelling of the relationship between the Greek goddess and god Persephone and Hades. Originally published to Smythe's Tumbl ...

'', a 2018 webcomic by Rachel Smithe ** ''Lore Olympus'' (TV series), an in-development adaptation by The Jim Henson Company

Businesses and organizations

Legal observer Legal observers are individuals, usually representatives of civilian human rights agencies, who attend Demonstration (people), public demonstrations, protests and other activities where there is a potential for conflict between the public or activi ...

, a third-party organization that monitors protests or war zones in the interest of protecting human and civil rights *

, a London-based record company established in 1995 * LO, abbreviation used for the national confederation of trade unions in several Scandinavian countries: ** ''Landsorganisationen i Danmark'' (

Danish Confederation of Trade Unions LO, The Danish Confederation of Trade Unions ( Danish: ''LO, Landsorganisationen i Danmark'' or simply ''LO'') was founded in 1898 and was an umbrella organisation (the largest of the three national trade union centers in Denmark) for 18 Danish ...

) ** ''Landsorganisasjonen i Norge'' (

Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (, LO) is a national trade union center, decidedly the largest and probably the most influential umbrella organization of labour unions in Norway. The 21 national unions affiliated to the LO have almo ...

) ** ''Landsorganisationen i Sverige'' (

Swedish Trade Union Confederation The Swedish Trade Union Confederation ( ; literally "The National Organisation in Sweden"), commonly referred to as LO (), is a national trade union centre, an umbrella organisation for fourteen Swedish trade unions that organise mainly "blue-c ...

) * ''

Lutte Ouvrière Lutte Ouvrière (, ) is a Trotskyist communist party in France, named after its weekly paper. Arlette Laguiller was the party's spokeswoman from 1973 to 2008 and ran in each presidential election until 2012, when Nathalie Arthaud was the candi ...

'' ("workers' struggle"), a far-left French political party *

Leigh & Orange Leigh & Orange Ltd (, formerly known as ), founded in Hong Kong in 1874, is an international architectural and interior design practice. The group has a total of 550 staff and operates through its headquarters in Hong Kong with branch o ...

, an architectural company in Hong Kong *

London Overground London Overground (also known simply as the Overground) is a Urban rail in the United Kingdom, suburban rail network serving London and its environs. Established in 2007 to take over Silverlink Metro routes, it now serves a large part of Greate ...

, a state-run train operating company in London, United Kingdom *

LOT Polish Airlines LOT Polish Airlines, legally Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT S.A. (, ''flight''), is the flag carrier of Poland. A founding member of IATA, it is one of the world's oldest airlines. With a fleet of 87 aircraft as of June 2025, LOT is Europe's 16th ...

(IATA code LO)

Languages

Loo language Loo, or Shụŋọ, is an Adamawa language of Nigeria. It is one of the more than 500 native languages spoken in that country. As of 1992, the approximate number of Loo speakers was 8,000. Blench, Roger. An Atlas of Nigerian Languages', pp. x ...

, an Adamawa language of Nigeria *

Lo-Toga language Lo-Toga is an Oceanic language spoken by about 580 people on the islands of Lo and Toga, in the Torres group of northern Vanuatu. The language has sometimes been called ''Loh'' or ''Toga'', after either of its two dialects. Name The languag ...

, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu * Guro language, a Mande language of Ivory Coast * lo, ISO 639-1 code for the

Lao language Lao (Lao: , ), sometimes referred to as Laotian, is the official language of Laos and a significant language in the Isan region of northeastern Thailand, where it is usually referred to as the Isan language. Spoken by over 3 million people in ...

People

Lo (given name) The name Lo can be used as a shortened form of a number of names, such as Laura, Lauren, Dolores, Sloane, Olivia, Lucia, Lois, Lola, Loretta, Lorena or Loleriana. People named "Lo include: * Lo Bosworth (born 1986), an American television personalit ...

Lô Lô is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Cheikh Lô (born 1955), Senegalese musician * Ismaël Lô (born 1956), Senegalese musician * Maodo Lô (born 1992), German basketball player See also * LO (disambiguation) * Saint-Lô ...

, a Senegalese surname *

Leandro Lo Leandro Pereira do Nascimento Lo (11 May 1989 – 7 August 2022), better known as Leandro Lo, was a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt competitor. A record holder with eight IBJJF world championship titles in five different weight classes, as w ...

(1989–2022), Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt competitor *

Lu (surname) Lu is the pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of several distinct Chinese surnames that are written with different Chinese characters, characters in Chinese. Depending on the character, it may be spelled Lú, Lǔ, or Lù when pinyin Tone (linguis ...

, Chinese surnames romanized as Lo according to the Cantonese pronunciation **

Lu (surname 盧) Lú is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in traditional character and in simplified character. It is also spelled Lo or Loh according to the Cantonese pronunciation. Lu 盧 is the 52nd most common surname in China, ...

, written 卢 in simplified character **

Lu (surname 魯) The Chinese surname ( simplified: ; ) is listed 49th in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. As of 2008, is the 115th most common surname in China. Origin According to several ancient genealogy texts including the Tang dy ...

, written 鲁 in simplified character **

Lu (surname 路) Lu () is a Chinese surname. It is also spelled Lo according to the Cantonese pronunciation. Lu 路 is listed 138th in the Song dynasty classic text '' Hundred Family Surnames''. Lu 路 is the 116th most common surname in China, with a total popu ...

Lu (surname 蘆) Lú is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in simplified character and in traditional character. It is also spelled Lo according to the Cantonese Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic ...

, written 芦 in simplified character *

Luo (surname) Luo or Lo refers to the Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin romanizations of the Chinese surnames wikt:羅, 羅 (Simplified Chinese: wikt:罗, 罗, pinyin: Luó, Jyutping: Lo4) and wikt:駱, 駱 (Simplified Chinese: wikt:骆, 骆, pinyin: Luò, Jyutping: Lo ...

(羅/罗 or 駱/骆), a Chinese surname often romanized as Lo *

Lhoba people Lhoba (English translation: ; ; ) is any of a diverse amalgamation of Sino-Tibetan-speaking tribespeople living in and around Pemako, a region in southeastern Tibet including Mainling, Medog and Zayü counties of Nyingchi and Lhünzê Cou ...

, also known as "Lo", tribespeople living in Southeastern Tibet

Places

Lo (island) Lo (sometimes wrongly spelled ''Loh'') is an island in the Torres group of islands, in northern Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (; ), is an island country in Melanesia located in the South Pacific Ocean. The a ...

, of the Torres group in Vanuatu * Kingdom of Lo, an ancient culturally Tibetan kingdom now known as Mustang in Nepal *

Lo, Belgium Lo is a small medieval town in the Belgian province of West Flanders in Belgium and a borough of the municipality Lo-Reninge. Lo is part of the community Lo-Reninge, which obtained the city title in 1985. The Old Town Hall of Lo, built between 156 ...

, a municipality in Belgium *

Lô River The Lô River () is a major river of Vietnam. It flows through Hà Giang Province, Tuyên Quang Province and Phú Thọ Province for 470 kilometres and has a basin area of 39,000 km2 and originates in Yunnan Yunnan; is an inland P ...

, a river of Vietnam *

Lake Orion, Michigan Lake Orion ( ) is a village in the northern outskirts of Metro Detroit in Oakland County, Michigan, United States. The population was 2,973 at the 2010 census. "Lake Orion" can refer to either the village or the much larger Orion Township, of w ...

Lake Oswego Lake Oswego ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon, primarily in Clackamas County, Oregon, Clackamas County, with small portions extending into neighboring Multnomah County, Oregon, Multnomah and Washington County, Oregon, Washington counties ...

, Oregon

Science and technology

* ''Lo'', an obsolete genus of

rabbitfish Rabbitfishes or spinefoots, genus ''Siganus'', are perciform fishes in the family (biology), family Siganidae. It is the only Extant taxon, extant genus in its family and has 29 species. In some now obsolete classifications, the species having ...

es, now included in ''Siganus'' * "Lo", the first message to travel across

ARPANET The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the tec ...

, later to become the internet *

Learning object A learning object is "a collection of content items, practice items, and assessment items that are combined based on a single learning objective". The term is credited to Wayne Hodgins, and dates from a working group in 1994 bearing the name. The c ...

, in education and data management * Left only, the left channel of the stereo Left only/Right only

downmix In sound recording and reproduction, audio mixing is the process of optimizing and combining multitrack recordings into a final mono, stereo or surround sound product. In the process of combining the separate tracks, their relative levels are ad ...

LibreOffice LibreOffice () is a free and open-source office productivity software suite developed by The Document Foundation (TDF). It was created in 2010 as a fork of OpenOffice.org, itself a successor to StarOffice. The suite includes applications ...

, an open-source office software suite *

Local oscillator In electronics, the term local oscillator (LO) refers to an electronic oscillator when used in conjunction with a Frequency mixer, mixer to change the frequency of a signal. This frequency conversion process, also called Heterodyne, heterodyning ...

in, for example, a superheterodyne receiver

Other uses

Liceum ogólnokształcące A general education liceum (Polish: ''Liceum ogólnokształcące'' ) is an academic high school in the Education in Poland, Polish educational system. They are attended by those who plan to further their academic education upon graduation from Educa ...

, a type of general academic high school in the Polish education system *

Loop jump The loop jump is an edge jump in the sport of figure skating. The skater executes it by taking off from the back outside edge of the skating foot, turning one or more rotations in the air, and landing on the back outside edge of the same foot. ...

, in figure skating scoring *

Lo mein Lo mein () is a Chinese dish with noodles. When prepared in the Cantonese style, it is often topped with or accompanied by meat (such as char siu or beef brisket), wontons, or vegetables, and may be served with a bowl of broth for dipping. ...

, a dish {{disambiguation, geo