Mongo
Mongo may refer to:
Geography
[edit]Africa
[edit]- Mongo, Chad, a Sahel city
- Apostolic Vicariate of Mongo (Roman Catholic missionary jurisdiction)
- Mongo, Sierra Leone, a chiefdom
- Mongo River (Little Scarces River), Guinea and Sierra Leone, a tributary of the Little Scarces River; see List of rivers of Guinea and List of rivers of Sierra Leone
- Mongo Department, Gabon
United States
[edit]- Mongo, Indiana, United States, an unincorporated community
Languages
[edit]- Mongo language, the language of the Mongo people
- Mongo, one of the five languages of the Duala language-cluster, spoken in Cameroon
People
[edit]- Mongo people, one of the largest ethnic groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Mongo Santamaría (1917–2003), Cuban jazz/salsa percussionist
- Mongo Beti (1932–2001), pen name of Cameroonian writer Alexandre Biyidi Awala
- "Mongo", family nickname for Ramón Castro Ruz (1924–2016), eldest brother of Fidel Castro
- Mongo, nickname of musician Drew Parsons (born 1974)
- Mongo, a London-based rapper and founder of hip hop group Mud Family
- Mark LoMonaco (born 1971), American professional wrestler, one of whose ring names is "Mongo Vyle"
- Mike Mangold (1955–2015), American airline and former aerobatics pilot whose US Air Force call sign was "Mongo"
- Steve McMichael (born 1957), former American football player and professional wrestler whose ring name was "Mongo"
Fiction
[edit]- Mongo (fictional planet), a fictional setting for the adventures of Flash Gordon
- Magic Mongo, a fictional genie featured in segments of the Saturday morning TV program The Krofft Supershow
- Mongo (Shrek), a fictional giant gingerbread man in the animated movie Shrek 2
- Mongo the Magnificent, a fictional private investigator with dwarfism
- Mongo, a character in the film Precious
- Mongo, a character in the 1974 comedy film Blazing Saddles, played by Alex Karras
- General Mongo, a character in the 1970 Western film Compañeros
- Mongo, a fictional boss character in the game show Nick Arcade
- Mongo, a fictional character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series
Other uses
[edit]- Möngö, a Mongolian monetary unit worth 0.01 Mongolian tögrög
- Mongo (album), a 1959 album by Mongo Santamaría
- Mongo (horse), an American champion thoroughbred racehorse
- MongoDB, a document-oriented database
- Mongo foot, the use of the front foot to propel a skateboard
See also
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