Giro (disambiguation)
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See also: gyro (disambiguation)
Giro or GIRO may refer to:
- Banking
- Giro, a direct payment from one bank account to another instigated by the payer; used as slang to refer to government benefit payments in the UK
- a popular abbreviation in the UK for the Girocheque - see also Girobank
- Girobank, a state owned and later privatised financial institution in the UK
- GiroBank, a Danish bank (1991-1995) which through several mergers is now part of Danske Bank
- name of a bank account with the Dutch Postgiro, later Postbank, now ING
- People
- Ivelin Giro, Cuban American actress
- Jorge López (musician), or "Giro", salsa singer
- Anna Girò, 18th-century Italian contralto
- Places
- Giro, Indiana, a small town in the United States
- Other
- Girò, an Italian wine grape
- Giró blanc, a Spanish wine grape
- Giro d'Italia, a bicycling Grand Tour in Italy
- Giro (company), a U.S. manufacturer of helmets for cycling and snow sports
- Giro, or Girouette, a character in the video game Mega Man ZX
- Giro, a piece of orchestral music by Finnish composer Esa-Pekka Salonen
- GIRO, Global Ionospheric Radio Observatory
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