Mongo may refer to:

Geography

Africa

  • Mongo, Chad, a Sahel city
  • Apostolic Vicariate of Mongo, Chad, a Roman Catholic missionary jurisdiction
  • Mongo Department, Gabon
  • Mongo, Sierra Leone, a chiefdom
  • Mongo River (Little Scarces River) - see List of rivers of Guinea and List of rivers of Sierra Leone

United States

  • Mongo, Indiana, 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
  • Mike Mangold (1955–2015), American airline and former aerobatics pilot whose US Air Force call sign was "Mongo"
  • Mark LoMonaco (born 1971), American professional wrestler, one of whose ring names is "Mongo Vyle"
  • Steve McMichael (1957-2025), former American football player and professional wrestler whose ring name was "Mongo"

Fiction

  • Mongo (Flash Gordon), 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
  • Mongo, a fictional character in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series

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

See also

  • Monga (disambiguation)
  • Mongol (disambiguation)
  • Mungo (disambiguation)