Given name or nickname

• Jimbo Aquino (born 1985), Filipino professional basketball player
• Jim Bohannon
  Jim Bohannon
  James E. "Jim" Bohannon is an American broadcaster who has worked in both television and radio.During the 1980s he was a fill-in for Larry King when King had his popular nighttime national radio program. He also does much work with the Smithsonian Associates...
  
   (born 1944), talk show host
• Jimmy Connors
  Jimmy Connors
  James Scott "Jimmy" Connors is an American former world no. 1 tennis player....
  
   (born 1952), former tennis player
• Jim Morrison
  Jim Morrison
  James Douglas "Jim" Morrison was an American musician, singer, and poet, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band The Doors...
  
   (born 1943, died 1971), American singer and poet for acid rock band, The Doors
  The Doors
  The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger...
  
  
• Jim Covert
  Jim Covert
  James Paul "Jimbo" Covert is the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Institute for Transfusion Medicine and a former American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for the Chicago Bears.-High school:Covert excelled in both football and wrestling at Freedom Area High...
  
   (born 1960), former American football player
• Jimbo Elrod
  Jimbo Elrod
  James Whittington Elrod is a former American football linebacker who was an All-American at the University of Oklahoma and played professionally for the Kansas City Chiefs and the Houston Oilers of the National Football League.Elrod graduated from East Central High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in...
  
   (born 1954), former American football player
• Jimbo Fisher
  Jimbo Fisher
  John James "Jimbo" Fisher is an American college football coach and former player. He is currently head coach at Florida State University....
  
   (born 1965), American college football coach and former player
• Jim "Jimbo" Mathus, co-founder of the band Squirrel Nut Zippers
  Squirrel Nut Zippers
  The Squirrel Nut Zippers are a band formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina by James "Jimbo" Mathus , Katharine Whalen , Chris Phillips on drums, Don Raleigh on bass and sideman Ken Mosher....
  
  
• Jimbo Wallace, bass guitarist for the American psychobilly band The Reverend Horton Heat
  The Reverend Horton Heat
  The Reverend Horton Heat is the stage name of American musician Jim Heath as well as the name of his Dallas, Texas-based psychobilly trio. Heath is a singer, songwriter and guitarist....
  
  
• Jimbo Lyon

Surname

• Akira Jimbo
  Akira Jimbo
  is a Japanese freelance jazz fusion drummer who is famous for his drumming independence and fusion of electronic drum technology and acoustic drums. Aside from his solo work, he is also the drummer in the Japanese jazz fusion band Casiopea and has participated in various side projects with other...
  
   (born 1959), Japanese drummer
• Michio Jimbo
  Michio Jimbo
  is a Japanese mathematician, currently a professor at the University of Tokyo. He is a grandson of the linguist Kaku Jimbo.After graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1974, he studied under Mikio Sato at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Kyoto University...
  
   (born 1951), Japanese mathematician and professor

Fictional or mythical characters

• Thardid Jimbo
  Thardid Jimbo
  Thardid Jimbo is a character in Australian Aboriginal mythology. He was a cannibal giant, ultimately defeated by the resourcefulness of the family of a hunter he had killed.-References:...
  
  , cannibal giant in Australian Aboriginal mythology
• Jimbo, a recurring comic book character of Gary Panter
  Gary Panter
  Gary Panter is an illustrator, painter, designer and part-time musician. Panter's work is representative of the post-underground, new wave comics movement that began with the end of Arcade: The Comics Revue and the initiation of RAW, one of the second generation in American underground comix...
  
  
• Jimbo Gumbo, a character in the comic strip Rose Is Rose
  Rose Is Rose
  Rose Is Rose is a syndicated comic strip, written by Pat Brady since its creation in 1984, and drawn since March 2004 by Don Wimmer. The strip revolves around Rose and Jimbo Gumbo, their son Pasquale, and the family cat Peekaboo...
  
  
• Jimbo, a talking airplane in Jimbo and the Jet Set
  Jimbo and the Jet Set
  Jimbo and the Jet Set is a British animated cartoon series broadcast in the 1980s, featuring the adventures of the eponymous Jimbo, a talking aeroplane...
  
  , a British animated cartoon series
• Jimbo, nickname of James Rockford in The Rockford Files
  The Rockford Files
  The Rockford Files is an American television drama series which aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974 and January 10, 1980. It has remained in regular syndication to the present day. The show stars James Garner as Los Angeles-based private investigator Jim Rockford and features Noah...
  
  
• Jimmy Wales
  Jimmy Wales
  Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Wikia company....
  
   (born 1966), co-founder of Wikipedia
• Jimbo Jones, a character in the TV series The Simpsons
• Jimbo Kern, a character in the TV series South Park
• Jimbo, nickname of Code Lyoko character Jim Moralés
• Jimbo, nickname of The Adventures Of Jimmy Neutron character Jimmy Neutron
• Jimbo, the name of a teddy gorilla given away by Co-op UK
  Cooperative
  A cooperative is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit...
  
  
• Jimbo, the name given to Bill Rizer in the American localization of Contra III: The Alien Wars
  Contra III: The Alien Wars
  Contra III: The Alien Wars, released in Japan as and in the PAL region as Super Probotector: Alien Rebels, is a run and gun game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System produced by Konami...
  
  
• Jimbo, the nickname of the protagonist in the movie Treasure Planet
  Treasure Planet
  Treasure Planet is a 2002 animated science fiction film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 27, 2002...
  
  
• Jimbo, the eponymous protagonist of the novel Jimbo by Algernon Blackwood
  Algernon Blackwood
  Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T...
  
  
• Jimbo, Mr. Mojo Risin, Jim Morrison
  Jim Morrison
  James Douglas "Jim" Morrison was an American musician, singer, and poet, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band The Doors...
  
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In media

• "Jimbo", a song by War from the album The Black-Man's Burdon
  The Black-Man's Burdon
  The Black-Man's Burdon is a double LP by funk band Eric Burdon and War, released in December 1970 on MGM Records. It was the second of two albums by the group before Burdon left and the remaining band continued as War....
  
  
• "Jimbo's Lullaby", a movement from French composer Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  's piano suite Children's Corner
  Children's Corner
  Children's Corner is a six-movement suite for solo piano by Claude Debussy. It was published by Durand in 1908, and was given its world première in Paris by Harold Bauer on December 18 of that year...
  
  . "Jimbo" refers to an elephant named Jumbo who was brought to Paris from the Sudan and lived in Paris while Debussy was growing up.

See also

• James (disambiguation)
• Jim (disambiguation)
• Jimmy (disambiguation)