Cao is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as Gao in Chinese and Go in Korean. It is unrelated to the Chinese surname Cao, which is transliterated as TÃÂ o in Vietnamese.
List of persons with the surname
- Cao Lá»Â, weaponry engineer and minister
- Cao Bá Quát, poet and revolutionary
- Cao Thắng, bandit-turned-anticolonial fighter
- Cao Xuân Dục, scholar, historian-mandarin, and court adviser
- Cao VÃÂn Lầu, musician
- Cao VÃÂn Viên, General in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)
- ÃÂoan Trang (Cao Thá» ÃÂoan Trang), singer
- Joseph Cao, lawyer, former US representative from Louisiana