Taoism, a philosophical school and folk religion based on the texts the Tao Te Ching

The Tao "T.J." Jones, protagonist in Chris Crutcher's novel Whale Talk

Tao Te Ching, an ancient Chinese philosophical text

Tropical Atmosphere Ocean, a scientific project of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Tao, a Chinese character that was of pivotal meaning in ancient Chinese philosophy and religion

Tao Ren, a character from the manga Shaman King

Tao II the Brave (Seqenenra Tao), Egyptian ruler of Thebes who began ejection of the Hyksos from Ancient Egypt

Tao (comics), fictional character from the comic book WildCATS

Tao people, a Taiwanese aboriginal peoples, native to tiny outlying Orchid Island

Ko Tao, an island in the Gulf of Thailand

Terence Tao, an Australian mathematician, 2006 Fields Medalist

Tao Qian, influential pre-Tang Dynasty Chinese poet

TAO (software) (The ACE ORB), a freely available, open-source, and standards-compliant real-time C++ implementation of CORBA

Wang Tao, a Qing dynasty translator, reformer, political columnist, newspaper publisher, and fiction writer

Transitioning Applications to Ontologies, an European project in the FP6 framework

Track At Once, an optical disc recording mode

TAO (song), Do As Infinity's final single, released 2005

Tao Group, a software company headquartered in Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Tao Jun, a character from the manga Shaman King

Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus, a video game for Xbox

The International Air Transport Association airport code for Qingdao Liuting International Airport

Tao (historical region), part of the Georgian Tao-Klarjeti principalities

TAO (Collective), a radical tech organization based in Canada

DAO may refer to: Data Access Object, a design pattern used in software engineering Data Access Objects, a general programming interface for database access on Microsoft Windows systems Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Saanich, British Columbia,...

Wu Tao, a Chinese discuss thrower

Tao (album), and album by Rick Springfield

Tao Yang

Ten Acre Observatory, in Oklahoma, United States

Tamke-Allan Observatory, in Tennessee, United States

Tao (software), a library giving .NET and mono developers access to popular graphics and gaming libraries like OpenGL and SDL

Tao, a post-industrial video game for the Famicom