Jumbo (disambiguation)

Jumbo (disambiguation)

Jumbo was a famous 19th-century circus elephant, and "jumbo" is now an adjective for "big" or "huge".

Jumbo may also refer to:
*Jumbo, Zimbabwe, a village
*Jumbo (British band), UK band merged with the Tremeloes
*Jumbo (band), a Mexican rock band
*Jumbo (musical) a 1935 play about a circus, and the film, "Billy Rose's Jumbo (film)"
*Jumbo (song), a song by electronic band Underworld
*Jumbo (supermarket), a Dutch supermarket chain
*Jumbo, the name of several supermarkets in various countries: Chile, Argentina, Mauritius, Portugal
*Jumbo (shopping centre), a large shopping mall in Finland
*Jumbo (locomotive), a class of steam locomotive designed by Francis Webb
*Jumbo drill rig, used in underground mining.
*Jumbo mortgage, a mortgage with a loan amount above conventional loan limits
*Jumbo Water Tower, a water tower in Colchester, Essex, England
*Jumbo Frames, Ethernet frames larger than standard 1518 Bytes
*Jumbo Machinder, a line of Japanese toys
*Jumbo Kingdom, a pair of floating restaurants in Hong Kong
*Mumbo Jumbo (phrase), gibberish or a meaningless ritual
*Jumbo City, nick name of the town where Jumbo the elephant was killed
*Jumbo Video, a large video store located in Canada
*Jumbo formation, an offensive formation in American football.
*Jumbo, the Laos version of the Tuk-tuk vehicle.

People with the given name "Jumbo":
*Jumbo Brown, (1907–1966), right-handed Major League Baseball relief pitcher
*Jumbo Elliott (American football) (born 1965), former NFL football player
*Jumbo Elliott (athletics) (1915–1981), American athletics coach
*Jumbo Elliott (baseball) (1900-1970), American Major League Baseball pitcher
*Jumbo Schoeneck (1862–1930), Major League Baseball first baseman
*Jumbo Tsuruta (1951–2000), Japanese professional wrestler
*Jumbo Carnation, a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe
*General Jumbo, a UK comic-strip character
*Indian Test Cricket captain Anil Kumble is referred to as Jumbo.
*Takashi Takeda, commonly known as Jumbo, a character in the manga "Yotsuba&!"
*Mrs. Jumbo, the fictional elephant who is mother to the title character in the movie "Dumbo"

Jumbo may also be:
*Boeing 747, an airplane, the original "Jumbo Jet"
*A nickname given post-war to the M4A3E2 Assault Tank, a variant of the US M4 Sherman tank.


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