Dado

Architecture and joinery

Dado (architecture), an architectural term for the lower part of a wall
Dado rail, a type of moulding fixed at mid-height horizontally to the wall
Dado (joinery), a woodworking joint
- Dado set, a circular saw blade used for cutting dado joints

Dado is a diminutive of a nunber of given name and occasiolally a given name by itself. Notable people with the given name include:

Audoin (bishop) (609-686), Frankish bishop, courtier, chronicler and Catholic saint known as Dado
Dado, Bishop of Verdun (880-923)
Dado, Count of Pombia (died 980), Italian nobleman
Diosdado Dado Banatao (born 1946), Filipino-American entrepreneur and engineer
Luis Dado Cavalcanti (born 1981), Brazilian football manager
David Dado Elazar (1925–1976), Israeli Army Chief-of-Staff
Salvador Dado Marino (1915–1989), American flyweight world champion boxer
Edgardo Dado Moroni (born 1962), Italian jazz pianist and composer
Damir Dado Polumenta (born 1982), Montenegrin pop-folk singer
Dado Pršo (born 1974), Croatian football player
Alessandro Ruspoli, 9th Prince of Cerveteri (1924–2005), Italian playboy and occasional actor nicknamed "Dado"
Dado Topić (born 1949), Croatian singer
Dado (painter), Yugoslavian-born painter Miodrag Đurić (1933–2010)
Dado (street performer), stage name of Canadian street performer, magician and clown Daniel Warr (Template:Fl.)

Little Dado, Filipino bantamweight and flyweight world champion boxer Eleuterio Zapanta (1916–1965)
Speedy Dado, Filipino boxer Diosdado Posadas (1906–1990)

Dado, Afghanistan, the district center of Zana Khan district in Ghazni Province
Dado (band), an Uzbekistani pop band
The Dado Center for Interdisciplinary Military Studies, an Israeli strategy think tank inside the Israel Defense Forces
District Agriculture Development Office (DADO), local offices under Ministry of Agricultural Development (Nepal)