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Places

* Pongo (geography), canyon or narrow gorge in the Upper Amazon * Pongo River (disambiguation), several rivers or estuaries in Africa * Pongo, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Pongo, Longleng, village in Longleng district of Nagaland State, India


People

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


Animals

* ''Pongo'' (genus), the orangutans * Pongo, chimpanzee, star attraction in 1884 at the Zoological Park in
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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 ''
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'' (1975–1994) * Pongo the Pirate, puppet character from Gerry Anderson's TV series ''
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'' (1958–1959) * "Pongo" Banks, antagonist of the 1979 Alan Clarke film '' Scum'' * Pongo, assistant to Johhny Gan (Bobby Lee) on ''Mad TV'' (season 12) * Pongo, puppet from
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Fictional animals

* Pongo, male 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), ''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 (TV series), ''Oswald'' * Pongo, Dalmatian dog character in the 2011 American television series ''Once Upon a Time (TV series), Once Upon A Time'' * Pongo, dog character of Billy The Kid in the D. C. Thomson 1970s British comics ''Cracker (comics), Cracker'' * Pongo, circus chimpanzee (who plays a role in the plot) in Enid Blyton's 5th Famous Five book, ''Five Go Off in a Caravan'' (1946)


Fictional places

* Checkpoint Pongo, a border post of the Concavity near Methuen, Massachusetts, in the American novel ''Infinite Jest''


See also

* Pango Pango, a.k.a. Pago Pago, in Samoa {{Disambiguation