# Pongo

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Look up ***[Pongo](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pongo)*** or ***[pongo](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pongo)*** in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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**Pongo** may refer to:

## Places

- [Pongo (geography)](/source/Pongo_(geography)), canyon or narrow gorge in the Upper Amazon

- [Pongo River (disambiguation)](/source/Pongo_River_(disambiguation)), several rivers or estuaries in Africa

- [Pongo, Kentucky](/source/Pongo%2C_Kentucky), an unincorporated community

- [Pongo, Longleng](/source/Pongo%2C_Longleng), village in Longleng district of Nagaland State, India

## People

- [Tom 'Pongo' Waring](/source/Tom_Waring) (1906–1980), English footballer

- [Joe Cantillon](/source/Joe_Cantillon) ("Pongo Joe", 1861–1930), U.S. manager in American Major League Baseball

- [Pongo (musician)](/source/Pongo_(musician)) Angolan-Portuguese musician

## Animals

- [*Pongo* (genus)](/source/Pongo_(genus)), the orangutans

- Pongo, chimpanzee, star attraction in 1884 at the Zoological Park in [Walton, Liverpool](/source/Walton%2C_Liverpool)

## Fictional characters

- [Pongo Twistleton](/source/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](/source/Footrot_Flats)* (1975–1994)

- Pongo the Pirate, puppet character from Gerry Anderson's TV series *[Torchy the Battery Boy](/source/Torchy_the_Battery_Boy)* (1958–1959)

- "Pongo" Banks, antagonist of the 1979 Alan Clarke film *[Scum](/source/Scum_(film))*

- Pongo, assistant to Johhny Gan (Bobby Lee) on [*Mad TV* (season 12)](/source/Mad_TV_(season_12))

- Pongo, puppet from [Rooster Teeth](/source/Rooster_Teeth) short films

### Fictional animals

- Pongo, male Dalmatian dog character in *[The Hundred and One Dalmatians](/source/The_Hundred_and_One_Dalmatians)*, 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith, and other adaptations: - *[One Hundred and One Dalmatians](/source/One_Hundred_and_One_Dalmatians)*, 1961 animated film by Walt Disney - [*101 Dalmatians* (1996 film)](/source/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](/source/A_Rubovian_Legend)* (1955), created by Gordon Murray

- Pongo, the Dragon, character since 2001 in U.S. animated children's show [*Oswald*](/source/Oswald_(TV_series))

- Pongo, Dalmatian dog character in the 2011 American television series *[Once Upon A Time](/source/Once_Upon_a_Time_(TV_series))*

- Pongo, dog character of Billy The Kid in the D. C. Thomson 1970s British comics *[Cracker](/source/Cracker_(comics))*

- Pongo, circus chimpanzee (who plays a role in the plot) in Enid Blyton's fifth Famous Five book, *[Five Go Off in a Caravan](/source/Five_Go_Off_in_a_Caravan)* (1946)

- Pongo, a sentient, featureless mound incapable of feeling or emotion resembling a dog. From the sketch “Pongo” on the American comedy series [Saturday Night Live](/source/Saturday_Night_Live).

## Fictional places

- Checkpoint Pongo, a border post of the Concavity near Methuen, Massachusetts, in the American novel *[Infinite Jest](/source/Infinite_Jest)*

## See also

- [Pungo (disambiguation)](/source/Pungo_(disambiguation))

- Pango Pango, a.k.a. [Pago Pago](/source/Pago_Pago), in Samoa

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