Mäo (German: Mexhof) is a village in Paide municipality, Järva County in northern-central Estonia.

[1] Prior to the 2017 administrative reform of local governments, it was located in Paide Parish.

In Mäo, there is a memorial to fallen policemen designed by Vilen Künnapu and unveiled in 1995.

It commemorates the Mäo shooting [et], which took place on December 15, 1994, when smugglers killed two policemen at the intersection in Mäo: 21-year-old Marek Lemming and 30-year-old Argo Kivi.

[2] Notable people that were born or lived in Mäo include the following: