Krao Farini (1876 – 16 April 1926) was an American sideshow performer who was born with hypertrichosis and took part in 19th-century exhibition tours in North America and Europe.

Accounts from her early career have Krao Farini being born in Laos, then a province in the northern Rattanakosin Kingdom.

It is claimed that in January 1881, Krao and her parents were captured during an expedition conducted by the explorer Carl Bock to what is now northern Thailand and Laos.

[4] Krao was described as being part of a primitive tribe of humans called Kraos-monink, all of whom were covered in hair and lived in trees.

He claimed that about 1874 Carl Bock had been travelling in British-ruled Burma on behalf of William Leonard Hunt, known as "Guillermo Antonio Farini", in search of unusually tall people.

They met at Singapore and traveled to the Rembau District in Malaysia in search of a race of ape people called "Jaccoons".

The entire expedition came down with cholera at Chiang Mai, where Krao's father, Schua Mayong, died.

Farini engaged the son of Queen Victoria's jeweler to capture and transport some Krao people from the king of Burma.

The king refused due to the belief that his reign would come to an end if the Krao people left the country.

By 1883, Krao was being exhibited in Europe as an example of a missing link between humanity and apes and proof of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.