Rao (surname)

Rao (Hindi: राव,Urdu: راؤ‎) is a surname used across India, Pakistan, Italy and China.

India

It is an Indian princely title cognate with Raja ("King"). Rao is also used as an addition to one's name or as a suffix to a male name in some places. Rao is commonly added as a suffix to a person's name in southern, northern and western parts of India, in particular in the states of Kerala Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana , Bihar, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu & Konkan / Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra (as Rao Saheb), Gujarat, Rajasthan and (rao is surname of Brahmins in Andhra Pradesh & Telangana , ( rao is the surname of(ahirwal) in haryana stateRaoRao is the surname of Rajputs And Jat people from eastern Uttar Pradesh (mainly Deoria District) and Rajasthan. Variants of the name include "Rai", "Raja",Using By Most Of RajputRavana RajputsJats From Western Uttar Pradesh.

Italy

The Sicilian-Calabrian Italian surname Rao is pronounced in the Italian language similarly to the Indian pronunciation ([ˈra.o], although in the United States many Raos of Italian descent pronounce the name /ˈreɪ.oʊ/). Examples are Raos in New York City, Boston, and Rao families in Rhode Island and North Carolina. It is also common among the descendants of Italian settlers in Brazil.

Rao

Rao or RAO may refer to:

General

People and fictional characters

Science

Rao (comics)

Rao is a fictional star in the DC Comics Universe. It is the red supergiant (in some continuities, red dwarf) that the planet Krypton orbited.

"Rao" is also later written into the Superman mythology as the name of a Kryptonian deity, the personification of their sun, worshipped as a god of light and life. As such the name was sometimes invoked in the comics as a Kryptonian exclamation.

History

In the early years of Superman comics, the sun of Krypton was unnamed and was given no effect on Superman's powers, which were attributed first to greater evolution, and then to a combination of innate powers and Earth's lower gravity. Starting in 1960, the fact that Earth's sun was yellow while Krypton's was red became the explanation for Superman's powers, with our sunlight fueling them like the charge of a battery. In the standard Silver Age continuity existing up until Crisis on Infinite Earths, Rao's red sun radiation actively suppressed the superhuman abilities of Kryptonians, as their powers only worked in the radiation of a yellow sun. The post-Crisis version created by John Byrne stated that Kryptonians absorbed solar energy, with the dim output of Rao being just enough to sustain them, and a yellow sun producing enough energy to "supercharge" a Kryptonian metabolism to levels of power not seen in their native environment, though it takes years for Clark Kent to build up enough energy to reach the level of power he displays as Superman. The 2004 graphic novel Superman: Birthright corroborates this, although in recent years, other writers have depicted red-sun radiation matching that of Rao as once again actively shutting down Kryptonian powers, for as long as an individual is exposed to it.

Rao (Chinese surname)

Rao (simplified Chinese: 饶; traditional Chinese: 饒; pinyin: Ráo) is a Chinese family name. It can also be spelled as "Jao," "Yow" or "Yaw".

The surname Rao is approximately 2200 years old, and originated in the area near present-day Linfen county in Shanxi province.

List of people with this surname

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