Bongo (name)

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Bongo is a surname. Notable people with the name include:

• Ali Bongo (magician) (1929–2009), British comedy magician
• Ali Bongo Ondimba (born 1959), president of Gabon from 2009 to 2023 and son of Omar Bongo
• Amba Bongo, writer and advocate
• Bongani Bongo, South African politician
• Christ Bongo (born 1976), Congolese football striker
• Edith Lucie Bongo (1964–2009), First Lady of Gabon from 1989 to 2009
• Martin Bongo (born 1940), Gabon political figure and diplomat
• Omar Bongo (1935–2009), former president of Gabon
• Pietro Bongo (died 1601), renaissance Italian writer