Jumbo (disambiguation)
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Jumbo was a famous 19th-century circus elephant, and "jumbo" is now an adjective for big or huge.
Jumbo may also refer to:
- Jumbo, Zimbabwe, a village
- Jumbo (British band), UK band merged with the Tremeloes
- Jumbo (band), a Mexican rock band
- Jumbo (musical) a 1935 play about a circus, and the film, Billy Rose's Jumbo (film)
- Jumbo (song), a song by electronic band Underworld
- Jumbo (supermarket), a Dutch supermarket chain
- Jumbo, the name of several supermarkets in various countries: Chile, Argentina, Mauritius, Portugal
- Jumbo (shopping centre), a large shopping mall in Finland
- Jumbo (locomotive), a class of steam locomotive designed by Francis Webb
- Jumbo drill rig, used in underground mining.
- Jumbo mortgage, a mortgage with a loan amount above conventional loan limits
- Jumbo Water Tower, a water tower in Colchester, Essex, England
- Jumbo Frames, Ethernet frames larger than standard 1518 Bytes
- Jumbo Machinder, a line of Japanese toys
- Jumbo Kingdom, a pair of floating restaurants in Hong Kong
- Mumbo Jumbo (phrase), gibberish or a meaningless ritual
- Jumbo City, nick name of the town where Jumbo the elephant was killed
- Jumbo Video, a large video store located in Canada
- Jumbo formation, an offensive formation in American football.
- Jumbo, the Laos version of the Tuk-tuk vehicle.
- Takashi Takeda, commonly known as Jumbo, a character in the manga Yotsuba&!
People with the given name Jumbo:
- Jumbo Brown, (1907–1966), right-handed Major League Baseball relief pitcher
- Jumbo Elliott (American football) (born 1965), former NFL football player
- Jumbo Elliott (athletics) (1915–1981), American athletics coach
- Jumbo Elliott (baseball) (1900-1970), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Jumbo Schoeneck (1862–1930), Major League Baseball first baseman
- Jumbo Tsuruta (1951–2000), Japanese professional wrestler
- Jumbo Carnation, a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe
- General Jumbo, a UK comic-strip character
- Indian Test Cricket captain Anil Kumble is referred to as Jumbo.
Jumbo may also be:
- Boeing 747, an airplane, the original "Jumbo Jet"
- A nickname given post-war to the M4A3E2 Assault Tank, a variant of the US M4 Sherman tank.