Mongo may refer to:

Geography

Africa

* Mongo, Chad, a Sahel city *

Apostolic Vicariate of Mongo The Apostolic Vicariate of Mongo is a Latin Church pre-diocesan missionary jurisdiction or apostolic vicariate in Sahel-country Chad. It is immediately exempt to the Holy See, specifically the missionary Congregation for the Evangelization of P ...

(Roman Catholic missionary jurisdiction) *

Mongo, Sierra Leone Mongo is a chiefdom in Falaba District of Sierra Leone Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the nor ...

, a chiefdom *

Mongo River (Little Scarces River) ''Oddworld'' is a video game series and fictional universe, created by developers Oddworld Inhabitants under the direction of Lorne Lanning. The series has been released on various platforms such as PlayStation, Xbox, PlayStation 3, Game Boy, Windo ...

, Guinea and Sierra Leone, a tributary of the Little Scarces River; see

List of rivers of Guinea This is a list of rivers in Guinea. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. Atlantic Ocean *''Sénégal River (Senegal)'' ** Falémé River **Bafing River **Bakoy River *** ...

and List of rivers of Sierra Leone *

Mongo Department Mongo is a department of Nyanga Province in Gabon Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equa ...

, Gabon

United States

* Mongo, Indiana, United States, an unincorporated community

Languages

* Mongo language, the language of the Mongo people * Mongo, one of the five languages of the

Duala language Duala (''ɓwambo ba duālā in douala)'' (also spelt Douala, Diwala, Dwela, Dualla and Dwala) is a dialect cluster spoken by the Duala and Mungo peoples of Cameroon. Douala belongs to the Bantu language family, in a subgroup called Sawabantu. ...

-cluster, spoken in Cameroon

People

Mongo people __NOTOC__ The Mongo people are an ethnic group who live in the equatorial forest of Central Africa. They are the second largest ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of Congo, highly influential in its north region. A diverse collection of sub- ...

, one of the largest ethnic groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo * Mongo Santamaría (1917–2003), Cuban jazz/salsa percussionist *

Mongo Beti Alexandre Biyidi Awala (30 June 1932 – 8 October 2001), known as Mongo Beti or Eza Boto, was a Cameroonian writer. Beti spent much of his life in France, studying at the Sorbonne and becoming a professor at Lycée Pierre Corneille. Life ...

(1932–2001), pen name of Cameroonian writer Alexandre Biyidi Awala * "Mongo", family nickname for Ramón Castro Ruz (1924–2016), eldest brother of Fidel Castro * Mongo, nickname of musician Drew Parsons (born 1974) * Mongo, a London-based rapper and founder of hip hop group

Mud Family Skinnyman (born Alexander Graham Holland, 9 November 1974) is a British rapper who was born in Chapeltown Leeds, Yorkshire and moved to Finsbury Park, London at a young age. He grew up on the Six Acres Estate next to Andover Estate. Among his ...

* Mark LoMonaco (born 1971), American professional wrestler, one of whose ring names is "Mongo Vyle" * Mike Mangold (1955–2015), American airline and former aerobatics pilot whose US Air Force call sign was "Mongo" * Steve McMichael (born 1957), former American football player and professional wrestler whose ring name was "Mongo"

Fiction

* Mongo (fictional planet), a fictional setting for the adventures of Flash Gordon *

Magic Mongo ''The Krofft Supershow'' was a Saturday morning children's variety show, produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. It aired for two seasons from September 11, 1976, to September 2, 1978, on ABC. Background The show was composed of several live-action seg ...

, a fictional genie featured in segments of the Saturday morning TV program ''The Krofft Supershow'' * Mongo (Shrek), a fictional giant gingerbread man in the animated movie ''Shrek 2'' * Mongo the Magnificent, a fictional private investigator with dwarfism * Mongo, a character in the film '' Precious'' * Mongo, a character in the 1974 comedy film ''

Blazing Saddles ''Blazing Saddles'' is a 1974 American satirical western black comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, who also wrote the screenplay with Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Alan Uger. The film stars Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder. ...

'', played by

Alex Karras Alexander George Karras (July 15, 1935 – October 10, 2012) was an American football player, professional wrestler, sportscaster, and actor. He was a four-time Pro Bowl player with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL), ...

* General Mongo, a character in the 1970 Western film '' Compañeros'' * Mongo, a fictional boss character in the game show '' Nick Arcade''

Other uses

* Möngö, a Mongolian monetary unit worth 0.01 Mongolian tögrög * ''Mongo'' (album), a 1959 album by Mongo Santamaría * Mongo (horse), an American champion thoroughbred racehorse * MongoDB, a document-oriented database *

Mongo foot Footedness is the natural preference of one's left or right foot for various purposes. It is the foot equivalent of handedness. While purposes vary, such as applying the greatest force in a certain foot to complete the action of kick as opposed to ...

, the use of the front foot to propel a skateboard * ''Buddleja davidii'' 'Mongo' = Nanho Blue, a shrub cultivar