Pongo

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Pongo or pongo may refer to:

• Pongo, genus of the orangutan

As places:

• Pongo (geography), canyon or narrow gorge in the Upper Amazon
• The Pongo River, several rivers or estuaries in Africa

As real persons:

• Tom 'Pongo' Waring (1906–1980), English footballer
• Joe Cantillon ("Pongo Joe", 1861–1930), U.S. umpire and manager in American Major League Baseball

As fictional persons:

• Pongo Twistleton, book character from P. G. Wodehouse's Uncle Fred stories
• Janice "Pongo" Footrot, comics character from Murray Ball's strip Footrot Flats
• Pongo the Pirate, puppet character from Gerry Anderson's TV series Torchy the Battery Boy
• "Pongo" Banks, antagonist of the 1979 Alan Clarke film Scum
• Pongo, assistant to Johhny Gan (Bobby Lee) on MADtv: Season Twelve (2006-2007)

As real animals:

• Pongo, chimpanzee, star attraction at the 1884 Liverpool Inner City Zoological Park, Walton, Merseyside

As fictional animals:

• Pongo, Dalmatian dog character in:
  • The Hundred and One Dalmatians, 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith
  • One Hundred and One Dalmatians, 1961 animated film by Walt Disney
  • 101 Dalmatians, 1996 live-action film by Walt Disney Pictures
• 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

As slang:

• The British Army, in RAF slang