Sambo may refer to:

Places

  • Sambo, Angola, a commune in Tchicala Tcholohanga, Huambo Province, Angola

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  • Sambo Creek, a village in Honduras

People

  • Ferdy Sambo (born 1973), former Indonesian police general
  • Khem Sambo (1961–2011), Cambodian journalist
  • Luís Gomes Sambo, Angolan physician and politician who served as director of the African regional office of the World Health Organization
  • Sambo, botanist author abbreviation for Maria Cengia Sambo (1888–1939), Italian lichenologist
  • The nickname of Terence McNaughton (1965), Irish hurler
  • Namadi Sambo (born 1954), former vice president of Nigeria
  • Shurandy Sambo (born 2001), Dutch footballer

Other uses

  • Sambo, the title character of the 1899 book The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
  • Sambo, the title character of the 1935 film Little Black Sambo, based on the 1899 book
  • Sambo, song from The Red Moon (Johnson and Cole)
  • Sambo (martial art), developed in the Soviet Union
  • Sambo (mountain), in the Andes of Peru
  • Sambo (racial term), a derogatory term for a person of African origin
  • Zambo, a Spanish term most possibly related to "Sambo"
  • Sambo's, a former American restaurant chain
  • Sambo's Grave, grave of a slave (died 1736) at Sunderland Point in Lancashire, England
  • SS Sambo, a Liberty ship torpedoed and lost in the Gulf of Aden 1943

See also

  • Samba, an Afro-Brazilian dancing/music style
  • Sambomaster, a Japanese rock band
  • Sambu (disambiguation)
  • Samboy (disambiguation)
  • Shambo a black Friesian bull who lived in the Hindu Skanda Vale Temple near Llanpumsaint in Wales (2001–2007)
  • Shambo Shiva Shambo or Sambo Shiva Sambo, a 2010 Telugu film