Mako

Mako may refer to:

Biology

• Mako shark, the genus Isurus, consisting of two living and several fossil species:
  • Shortfin mako shark, Isurus oxyrinchus, the more common mako
  • Longfin mako shark, Isurus paucus, the rarer mako
• Aristotelia serrata, a New Zealand tree also known as mako or makomako

Places

• Makó District, Hungary
  • Makó, a town and district seat
• Magong or Mako, a Taiwanese city

People

• Mako (actor), stage name of Japanese-American actor Makoto Iwamatsu (1933–2006)
• Mako Hyōdō (兵藤ひょうどう まこ, born 1962), Japanese actress
• Mako Idemitsu (出光いでみつ 真子しんじ, born 1940), Japanese media artist
• Mako Ishino (石野いしの 真子しんじ, born 1961), Japanese singer and actress
• Mako Midori (緑みどり 魔子まこ, born 1944), Japanese actress
• Mako Miyata (宮田みやた 真子しんじ, born 1973), Japanese singer and vocalist
• Mako Kamitsuna, American Film director
• Mako Komao (駒こま尾お 真子しんじ, born 1982), Japanese author
• Mako Komuro (小室こむろ 眞子しんじ, Komuro Mako, born 1991), formerly Princess Mako of the Japanese imperial family
• Mako Kojima (小嶋こじま 真子しんじ, born 1997), Japanese fashion producer
• Mako Kudo (born 1997), Japanese professional footballer
• Mako Yamada (山田やまだ 真子しんじ, born 1994), Japanese kickboxer
• Mako Yamashita (山下やました 真しん瑚, born 2002), Japanese figure skater
• Mako Yoshikawa (漆うるし﨑 真子しんじ, born 1992), Japanese badminton player
• Mako Urushizaki (born 1966), American novelist
• Mako Vunipola (born 1991), New Zealand-born English rugby player
• Mako Tabuni (1979-2012), was an activist for Papuan interests
• Mako Oliveras (born 1946), is a former Minor League Baseball player
• Mako (DJ), American DJ and electronic dance music producer, real name Alexander Seaver
• Mako (voice actress) (born 1986), member of Japanese popular music group Bon-Bon Blanco
• Laura Mako (1916–2019), American interior designer
• Zach Mako (born 1988), American politician
• Maku people or Mako people, an indigenous people of South America

Organisations

• MAKO Surgical Corp., a medical device company
• mako (website), an Israeli news and entertainment portal owned by Keshet Media Group

Military

• AgustaWestland AW109 "Mako", the service name for the light utility helicopter of the Royal New Zealand Airforce
• Fighting Makos, the 93rd Fighter Squadron based at Homestead ARB, Florida
• UTAP-22 Mako, a jet UAV, a variant of the Composite Engineering BQM-167 Skeeter § UTAP-22
• Mako (missile) -- a hypersonic air-to-air missile from Lockheed Martin

Products

• Diamond Mako, a re-branded version of the Psion Revo PDA
• EADS Mako/HEAT, a jet aircraft
• Lancair Mako, an American kit aircraft
• Mako, a boat brand of White River Marine Group
• Nexus 4 (codenamed "Mako"), a smartphone by Google and LG Electronics
• Mako Shark, a series of concept cars produced by Chevrolet

Fiction

• Mako, a magical substance from the Final Fantasy VII metaseries
• Mako Ballistics, a fictional weapons manufacturer in the video game Deus Ex: Invisible War
• Mako, a companion character from Star Wars: The Old Republic
• Mako Spince, a minor character introduced in Star Wars: Dark Empire
• Mako, a villain from the Savage Dragon comic book
• Mako Hooker, the main character from Something's Down There by Mickey Spillane
• M35 Mako, an infantry fighting vehicle in the game Mass Effect
• Mako Island, a fictional island in the television programme H₂O: Just Add Water and in:
  • Mako: Island of Secrets, a television programme
• Mako Tsunami, in the list of Yu-Gi-Oh! anime and manga characters
• Mako: The Jaws of Death, 1976 film
• Myron Mako, the main protagonist of the 2008 strategy game Robocalypse
• Mako (The Legend of Korra), a major character in The Legend of Korra
• Task Force Mako, an elite American task force in the video game Medal of Honor: Warfighter
• Mako Mori, a major character in the motion picture Pacific Rim
• USS Mako, a fictitious United States Navy Cold War submarine which appears in the 1986 novel To Kill the Potemkin by Mark Joseph
• Mako Mankanshoku, a major character in Kill la Kill
• Mako Rutledge, or Roadhog, a hero in Overwatch (video game)
• Mako Shiraishi, one of the protagonists in the Samurai Sentai Shinkenger
• Mako, a fictional scribe in the Samurai Jack comic series

Other uses

• Mako (dance), an action dance from Tonga
• Mako (SeaWorld Orlando), a roller coaster at SeaWorld Orlando, opened in 2016

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Mako
• All pages with titles containing Mako
• Maco (disambiguation)
• MAACO
• Mahko, grandfather of Geronimo