Sambo may refer to:

Places

Sambo, Angola Sambo is a town and Communes of Angola, commune of Angola, in the province of Huambo Province, Huambo. See also * Communes of Angola External linksGoogle Earth view References

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, a commune in Tchicala Tcholohanga, Huambo Province, Angola * Sambo Creek, a village in Honduras

People

* Ferdy Sambo (born 1973), former Indonesian police general * Khem Sambo (1961–2011), Cambodian journalist * Luís Gomes Sambo, Angolan physician and politician who served as director of the African regional office of the World Health Organization * Sambo, botanist author abbreviation for Maria Cengia Sambo (1888–1939), Italian lichenologist * The nickname of Terence McNaughton (1965), Irish hurler * Namadi Sambo (born 1954), former

vice president of Nigeria The vice president of Nigeria is the second-highest official in the Federal government of Nigeria#Executive branch, executive branch of the federal government of Nigeria, after the president of Nigeria, and ranks first in the Nigerian president ...

* Shurandy Sambo (born 2001), Dutch footballer

Other uses

* Sambo, the title character of the 1899 book ''

The Story of Little Black Sambo ''The Story of Little Black Sambo'' is a children's book written and illustrated by Scottish author Helen Bannerman and published by Grant Richards (publishing house), Grant Richards in October 1899. As one in a series of small-format books ca ...

'' by Helen Bannerman ** Sambo, the title character of the 1935 film '' Little Black Sambo'', based on the 1899 book *Sambo, song from ''

The Red Moon (Johnson and Cole) ''The Red Moon'' is a musical or operetta in three acts with music by J. Rosamund Johnson and both book and lyrics by Bob Cole. Additional music was contributed by James Reese Europe who composed the song "Sambo" for the show, and co-wrote the ...

'' *

Sambo (martial art) Sambo is a combat sport, and a recognized style of amateur wrestling governed by the United World Wrestling, UWW in the World Wrestling Championships along with Greco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling. Practiced worldwide, sambo is a ma ...

, developed in the Soviet Union *

Sambo (mountain) Sambo (possibly from Quechua for "knock-kneed" or "a person with one black and one indigenous parent") is a mountain in the Vilcanota mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is situated in the Puno Region, Melgar Province, Nuñoa ...

, in the Andes of Peru *

Sambo (racial term) Sambo is a derogatory label for a person of African descent in the Spanish language. Historically, it is a name in American English derived from a Spanish term for a person of African and Native American ancestry. After the Civil War, duri ...

, a derogatory term for a person of African origin ** ''

Zambo Zambo ( or ) or Sambu is a racial term historically used in the Spanish Empire to refer to people of mixed Amerindian, Indigenous Amerindian and West African people, African ancestry. Occasionally in the 21st century, the term is used in the ...

'', a Spanish term most possibly related to "Sambo" *

Sambo's Sambo's was an American restaurant chain, started in 1957 by Sam Battistone Sr. and Newell Bohnett in Santa Barbara, California. Though the name was taken from portions of the names of its two founders, the chain also associated with '' The Stor ...

, a former American restaurant chain *

Sambo's Grave Sambo's Grave is the burial site of a black cabin boy or slavery, slave on Consecration, unconsecrated ground in a field near the small village of Sunderland Point, Lancashire, England. Sunderland Point was a port, serving cotton, sugar and slav ...

, grave of a slave (died 1736) at Sunderland Point in Lancashire, England * SS ''Sambo'', a Liberty ship torpedoed and lost in the Gulf of Aden 1943