Meco or MECO or mecos, may refer to:

People

* A meco, a member of the Mecos, a

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, a caste of Amerindians in Iberian colonial empires

People by the nickname, stagename, pseudonym

Meco Domenico Monardo (November 29, 1939 – May 26, 2023), known as Meco, was an American record producer and musician, as well as the name of his band or production team. Meco is best known for his 1977 space disco version of the ''Star Wars'' ...

(1939–2023; born Domenico Monardo), American record producer and musician * The Great Meco, a wrestler signed to

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* Carmelo “Meco” Domínguez, a Bolivian drug lord involved in Presidential corruption in Bolivia * Américo "Meco" dos Santos, a soccer player for ''Atlético Petróleos de Luanda'', Luanda, Angola

People with the given name

* Meco Barcliff, wife of Melvin "Magoo" Barcliff (1973–2023), of the U.S. hiphop duo

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* Meço Bono (18th century), member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces for the Pashalik of Yanina, under

Ali Pasha of Ioannina Ali Pasha (1740 – 24 January 1822), commonly known as Ali Pasha of Yanina or Ali Pasha of Tepelena, was an Albanian ruler who served as Ottoman pasha of the Pashalik of Yanina, a large part of western Rumelia. Under his rule, it acquired a ...

* Meco Chang, an executive of the

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* Meco Eno (born 1966), American musician * Meco Poliziani, Canadian player of Canadian football, drafted into the Canadian Football League in 1960

People with the surname

Éric Di Meco Éric Yves Di Meco (born 7 September 1963) is a French former professional footballer who played as a left back. Club career Di Meco was born in Avignon, Vaucluse. During his career, he played mostly for Marseille. After starting as a midfielder ...

(born 1963), French soccer player * Jose Luis Abalos Meco (born 1958), Spanish politician * Marco Di Meco (born 1982), Italian musician * Richard Meco (1590–1661), English musician * Sonila Meço, an Albanian TV personality on

Agon Channel Agon Channel was a private television station from Tirana, Albania, launched on 5 April 2013 by Italian businessman Francesco Becchetti. The Italian version of Agon Channel was launched on 1 December 2014 on the Italian digital terrestrial telev ...

, Tirana, Albania * Sylvia Meco, a competitor for Italy in artistic roller skating at the 1981 World Games *

Vincenzo Meco Vincenzo Meco (born 1 October 1940) is an Italian racing cyclist. He won stage 14 of the 1962 Giro d'Italia Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulsh ...

(born 1940), Italian racing cyclist

Places

* Meco Mountain, Angola; a mountain, see

Portuguese Angola In southwestern Africa, Portuguese Angola was a historical Evolution of the Portuguese Empire, colony of the Portuguese Empire (1575–1951), the overseas province Portuguese West Africa of Estado Novo (Portugal), Estado Novo Portugal (1951–1 ...

* Meco, a river in Chile; see

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* El Meco, a tributary of the Moctezuma River in

Acatlán, Hidalgo Acatlán is a town and municipalities of Mexico, municipality located in the states of Mexico, Mexican state of Hidalgo (state), Hidalgo, about 10 km northwest of the city of Tulancingo and 147 km from Mexico City. The main landmark is the Sa ...

, Mexico * Meco (municipality), a part of metropolitan Madrid, Spain ** Meco rail station, on the

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rail line * Meco, New York, USA; a hamlet * Meco Road,

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, USA; bordering its property, is named for Metropolitan Edison (M.E.Co.) * El Meco, Yucatan, Mayan Empire; an ancient port, now an archaeological site in Mexico

Groups, organizations

* MECO Construction, a Costa Rican company; see

Johnny Araya Monge Johnny Francisco Araya Monge (born 29 April 1957) is a Costa Rican politician. He was the mayor of the country's capital San José from 1998 to 2013 and again from 2016 to 2024. He was also the co-president of the United Cities and Local G ...

* Mactan Electric Company, Cebu, Visayas, Philippines; an electrical utility * Magnolia Electric Co. (MECo), an American band, the backing band to Jason Molina *

Manila Economic and Cultural Office The Manila Economic and Cultural OfficeIn .In . Also known as the Philippine Representative Office in Taiwan; . simple known as MECO is the List of diplomatic missions of the Philippines, representative office of the Philippines in Taiwan, functi ...

, Taipei, Taiwan; the representative office and defacto embassy of the Philippines to Taiwan, Republic of China * Maui Electric Company, Maui, Hawaii, USA; an electrical utility * Mediterranean Elasmobranch Citizen Observations, a citizen-scientist organization involved with monitoring

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Mecos București Domenico Monardo (November 29, 1939 – May 26, 2023), known as Meco, was an American record producer and musician, as well as the name of his band or production team. Meco is best known for his 1977 space disco version of the ''Star Wars'' t ...

, Bucharest, Romania; the ''Mecos'', a soccer tam * Metropolitan Edison (M.E.Co.), an electric utility serving regions of Pennsylvania, USA; later acquired by GPU, and now part of

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* Middle East Christian Outreach, which merged with

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in 2016 * Mining Engineering Company (MECO),

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, UK

Events, eras, times

* Main engine cutoff, the shut-off of the first stage in a

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Meco Cup The Women's Nations Cup (formerly known as the Air Canada Cup, the MLP Nations Cup and the Meco Cup) is an annual women's ice hockey tournament, held in Germany, Austria and Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is ...

, a women's ice hockey tournament * Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum, a global warming period 40 million years ago, during the Eocene * Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics, an international conference on statistical physics

Other uses

Magnetospheric eternally collapsing object The magnetospheric eternally collapsing object (MECO) is an alternative model for black holes initially proposed by Indian scientist Abhas Mitra in 1998 and later generalized by American researchers Darryl J. Leiter and Stanley L. Robertson. A pr ...

, a theoretical alternative to a black hole * Meco, a racehorse, a colt that won the 1874

Juvenile Stakes (United States) The Juvenile Stakes was a Thoroughbred horse race run for 109 years between 1874 and 1984. First run on June 13, 1874, it was an important part of Jerome Park's "Spring Meeting." The race was designed to show which were the top two-year-olds at t ...