Jumbo (disambiguation) explained

Jumbo was a 19th-century circus elephant.

Jumbo may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Music

• Jumbo (musical), a 1935 book musical about a circus
• Jumbo (band), a Mexican rock band
• "Jumbo" (Underworld song)
• "Jumbo" (Bee Gees song)

Fictional characters

• Mrs. Jumbo, a character in Dumbo
• Jumbo Carnation, a character in the Marvel Comics Universe
• General Jumbo, a UK comic-strip character
• Takashi Takeda or Jumbo, a character in Yotsuba&!
• “Jumbo” Bill Roach, a character in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Other arts, entertainment and media

• Jumbo (2008 film), an Indian animated film
  • Jumbo 2, its 2009 sequel
• Jumbo (2020 film), a drama film
• Jumbo (magazine), a defunct Italian comic magazine

Businesses

• Jumbo (supermarket), a Dutch supermarket chain
• Jumbo (hypermarkets), a Chilean hypermarket
• Jumbo Video, a chain of video stores in Canada
• Jumbo Games, a European maker of games and puzzles
• Jumbo S.A., a Greek toy company
• Jumbo Shopping Centre, Vantaa, Finland
• Jumbo Records, a record label in Britain 1908–1918
• Jumbo Kingdom, floating restaurants in Hong Kong; closed in 2022

Places

United States

• Jumbo, Alabama, an unincorporated community
• Jumbo, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
• Jumbo, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
• Jumbo, Ohio, an unincorporated community
• Jumbo, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community
• Jumbo, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Jumbo Mountain, a mountain in Washington State
• Jumbo Peak (Washington), a mountain in Washington State

Elsewhere

• Jumbo Glacier, British Columbia, Canada, aka Jumbo, a mountain resort municipality
• Jumbo Mountain (Canada), Purcell Mountains, Canada
• Jumbo Peak, in the Tararua Range, New Zealand
• Jumbo, Zimbabwe, a village
• Jumbo Cove, South Georgia Island

Sports

• Jumbo formation, an offensive formation in American football
• Tufts Jumbos, the varsity intercollegiate athletic programs of Tufts University
  • Jumbo the Elephant, the official mascot of Tufts University

Transportation

• Jumbo-class ferry, consisting of two ferries built by Washington State Ferries in 1972
• Boeing 747, aircraft manufactured by Boeing informally known as "Jumbo"
• Werkspoor Jumbo, a 1930s Dutch freighter biplane
• Glasflügel 604, a glider nicknamed "Jumbo" for its large size
• New South Wales 442 class locomotive, nicknamed "Jumbos" by railway enthusiasts
• Jumbo, a type of auto rickshaw in Laos
• Jumbo, name given to the only NZR WJ class steam locomotive

People

• Jumbo (nickname)
• Cush Jumbo (born 1985), English actress and writer
• Oko Jumbo (died 1891), Nigerian traditional ruler
• Jumbo Tsuruta, ring name of Japanese professional wrestler Tomomi Tsuruta (1951–2000)
• Jumbo (actor), stage name of Dhallywood actor Babul Gomes (1944–2004)

Other uses

• M4A3E2 Assault Tank or Jumbo, a variant of the US M4 Sherman tank
• "Jumbo", code-name of a steel canister constructed for the Trinity nuclear test
• Drilling jumbo, rock drilling machine used in underground mining and tunnelling
• Jumbo Water Tower, Colchester, England
• Jumbo frame, an Ethernet frame with more than 1500 bytes of payload
• Jumbo, a muscadine cultivar
• JuMBO or JuMBOs, abbreviation for "Jupiter Mass Binary Objects" in the Orion Nebula

See also

• Mumbo jumbo (phrase), gibberish or a meaningless ritual
• Jumbo mortgage (United States), a mortgage loan in an amount above conventional conforming loan limits
• Airbus A380, "Super Jumbo", specifically
• Jumbo jet (disambiguation)