Pongo
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Pongo may refer to:
Places
- Pongo (geography), canyon or narrow gorge in the Upper Amazon
- Pongo River (disambiguation), several rivers or estuaries in Africa
- Pongo, Longleng, village in Longleng district of Nagaland State, India
People
- Tom 'Pongo' Waring (1906–1980), English footballer
- Joe Cantillon ("Pongo Joe", 1861–1930), U.S. manager in American Major League Baseball
Slang
- An infantry soldier or marine - 19C British origin, primarily Commonwealth usage; possibly derived from the word mpongo, a great ape
Animals
- Pongo (genus), the orangutans
- Pongo, chimpanzee, star attraction in 1884 at the Zoological Park in Walton, Liverpool
Fictional characters
- Pongo Twistleton, book character from P. G. Wodehouse's Uncle Fred stories from the 1930s to 1960s
- Janice "Pongo" Footrot, comics character from Murray Ball's strip Footrot Flats (1975–1994)
- Pongo the Pirate, puppet character from Gerry Anderson's TV series Torchy the Battery Boy (1958–1959)
- "Pongo" Banks, antagonist of the 1979 Alan Clarke film Scum
- Pongo, assistant to Johhny Gan (Bobby Lee) on Mad TV (season 12)
- Pongo, puppet from Rooster Teeth short films
Fictional animals
- Pongo, Male Dalmatian dog character in The Hundred and One Dalmatians, 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith, and other adaptations:
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians, 1961 animated film by Walt Disney
- 101 Dalmatians (1996 film), a live-action film by Walt Disney Pictures
- Pongo, pampered pet dragon in the British children's television series A Rubovian Legend (1955), created by Gordon Murray
- Pongo, the Dragon, character since 2001 in U.S. animated children's show Oswald
- Pongo, dog character of Billy The Kid in the D. C. Thomson 1970s British comics Cracker
Fictional places
- Checkpoint Pongo, a border post of the Concavity near Methuen, Massachusetts, in the American novel Infinite Jest
See also
- Pango Pango, a.k.a. Pago Pago, in Samoa
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