Pongo (disambiguation)
Encyclopedia
Places
- Pongo (geography)Pongo (geography)A pongo is a type of canyon or narrow gorge along rivers in Peru, especially on the Marañón River and its affluents, in the Amazonas Region.See:...
, canyon or narrow gorge in the Upper Amazon - Ppongo River (disambiguation), several rivers or estuaries in Africa
People
- Tom 'Pongo' WaringTom 'Pongo' WaringThomas "Pongo" Waring was an English professional association football player. Nicknamed "Pongo" after a famous cartoon of the time, Waring is one of Aston Villa's all-time great centre forwards...
(1906–1980), English footballer - Joe CantillonJoe CantillonJoseph D. Cantillon , nicknamed "Pongo Joe," was an American manager and umpire in Major League Baseball during the first decade of the 20th century. He also was a longtime manager in minor league baseball...
("Pongo Joe", 1861–1930), U.S. umpire and manager in American Major League Baseball
Animals
- Pongo, chimpanzee, star attraction in 1884 at the Zoological Park in Walton, Liverpool
- Pongo, genus of the orangutanOrangutanOrangutans are the only exclusively Asian genus of extant great ape. The largest living arboreal animals, they have proportionally longer arms than the other, more terrestrial, great apes. They are among the most intelligent primates and use a variety of sophisticated tools, also making sleeping...
Fictional characters
- Pongo TwistletonPongo TwistletonReginald "Pongo" Twistleton is a character in the Uncle Fred books by P. G. Wodehouse. A member of the Drones Club in London, he's a nervous young man described by Sally Painter, the woman who loves him, as a "baa-lamb"...
, 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 FlatsFootrot FlatsFootrot Flats was a comic strip written by New Zealand cartoonist Murray Ball. It ran from 1975 until 1994 in newspapers around the world, though the unpublished strips continued to be released in book form until 2000...
(1975–1994) - Pongo the Pirate, puppet character from Gerry Anderson's TV series Torchy the Battery BoyTorchy the Battery BoyTorchy the Battery Boy was the second television series produced by AP Films and Gerry Anderson, running from 1958–1959. It was another collaboration with author Roberta Leigh and was directed by Anderson, with music scored by Barry Gray, art direction from Reg Hill and special effects by...
(1958–1959) - "Pongo" Banks, antagonist of the 1979 Alan Clarke film ScumScum (film)Scum is a 1979 British crime drama film directed by Alan Clarke, portraying the brutality of life inside a British borstal. The story was originally made for the BBC's Play for Today strand in 1977, however due to the violence depicted in the film, it was withdrawn from broadcast...
- Pongo, assistant to Johhny Gan (Bobby Lee) on MADtv: Season Twelve (2006-2007)MADtv: Season Twelve (2006-2007)The twelfth season of MADtv aired from September 16, 2006, to May 19, 2007, with 22 episodes.-Cast:Stephnie Weir and Frank Caliendo left the show while Daniele Gaither was fired by FOX executives...
- Pongo, puppet from Rooster Teeth ProductionsRooster Teeth ProductionsRooster Teeth Productions is a production group from Austin, Texas that specializes in the creation of live action shorts, animated peices and machinima, or films created using real-time, interactive engines from computer and video games. The name Rooster Teeth is a euphemism for Cockbite, an...
short films - Pongo, Mrs. Character in nonsense tales by Ian Silver to annoy his wife
Fictional animals
- Pongo, Dalmatian dog character in The Hundred and One DalmatiansThe Hundred and One DalmatiansThe Hundred and One Dalmatians, or the Great Dog Robbery is a 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith. A sequel entitled The Starlight Barking continues from the end of the first novel....
, 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith, and other adaptations:- One Hundred and One DalmatiansOne Hundred and One DalmatiansOne Hundred and One Dalmatians, often abbreviated as 101 Dalmatians, is a 1961 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith...
, 1961 animated film by Walt Disney - 101 Dalmatians (1996 film), a live-action film by Walt Disney Pictures
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians
- Pongo, pampered pet dragon in the British children's television series A Rubovian LegendA Rubovian LegendA Rubovian Legend is a British children's television series created by Gordon Murray,-Background:It began as a black and white children's puppet play for the BBC in the mid 1950s, presented by The BBC Puppet Theatre...
(1955), created by Gordon Murray - Pongo the Dragon, character since 2001 in U.S. animated children's show OswaldOswald (TV series)Oswald is an American children's cartoon series on Nick Jr. about a blue octopus and his friends, that first aired August 20, 2001 and officially ended in early 2004. The show was created by Dan Yaccarino and was co-produced by HiT Entertainment. It was also shown on Noggin in reruns. The show...
- Pongo, dog character of Billy The Kid in the D. C. Thomson 1970s British comics Cracker
Slang, English
- Pongo, a derogatory slang name for British ArmyBritish ArmyThe British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
soldiers, used particularly by airmen of the RAF, "Where the Army goes, The Pong goes"