Pongo

Pongo may refer to:

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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

Pongo (genus), the orangutans
Pongo, chimpanzee, star attraction in 1884 at the Zoological Park in Walton, Liverpool

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 Footrot Flats (1975–1994)
Pongo the Pirate, puppet character from Gerry Anderson's TV series Torchy the Battery Boy (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 Rooster Teeth short films

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), 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
Pongo, Dalmatian dog character in the 2011 American television series Once Upon A Time
Pongo, dog character of Billy The Kid in the D. C. Thomson 1970s British 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)
Pongo, a sentient, featureless mound incapable of feeling or emotion resembling a dog. From the sketch “Pongo” on the American comedy series Saturday Night Live.

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