Mongo
# Mongo

Mongo may refer to:

## Geography

### Africa

* Mongo, Chad, a Sahel city
* Apostolic Vicariate of Mongo (Roman Catholic missionary jurisdiction)
* Mongo, Sierra Leone, a chiefdom
* Mongo River (Little Scarces River), Guinea and Sierra Leone, a tributary of the Little Scarces River; see List of rivers of Guinea and List of rivers of Sierra Leone
* Mongo Department, 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-cluster, spoken in Cameroon

## People

* Mongo people, one of the largest ethnic groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Mongo Santamaría (1917–2003), Cuban jazz/salsa percussionist
* Mongo Beti (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
* 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, 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, played by Alex Karras
* 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, the use of the front foot to propel a skateboard
* Buddleja davidii 'Mongo' = Nanho Blue, a shrub cultivar
