Pongo

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Pongo may refer to:

Places

• Pongo (geography), canyon or narrow gorge in the Upper Amazon.
• Ppongo River (disambiguation), several rivers or estuaries in Africa
• Pongo, Longleng, village in Longleng district of Nagaland State of India.

People

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

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 MADtv: Season Twelve (2006-2007)
• Pongo, puppet from Rooster Teeth Productions short films

Fictional animals

• Pongo, 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

See also

• Pango Pango, a.k.a. Pago Pago, in Samoa

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