Lobo
Encyclopedia
Wolf
- Lobo, Spanish and Portuguese for wolf (Canis lupus), especially:
- Lobo, Mexican WolfMexican WolfThe Mexican Wolf is a subspecies of the Gray Wolf. It is native to North America, where it is the rarest and most genetically distinct subspecies.- Physical features :...
(Canis lupus baileyi) - Lobo, Iberian WolfIberian WolfThe Iberian wolf is a subspecies of grey wolf that inhabits the forest and plains of northern Portugal and northwestern Spain.-Features and adaptations:...
(Canis lupus signatus)
- Lobo, Mexican Wolf
- Lobo (New Mexico mascot)Lobo (New Mexico Mascot)The Lobo is the official mascot of the University of New Mexico. Lobo, the Spanish word for "wolf," was suggested by George S. Bryan, a sophomore at UNM, in 1920....
, University of New Mexico mascot
Places
- Lobo, BatangasLobo, BatangasLobo is a 4th class municipality in the Province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 37,798 people in 6,611 households....
, a municipality in the Philippines - Lobo, TexasLobo, TexasLobo is a ghost town in Culberson County, Texas, United States that was abandoned in 1991.-Geography:Lobo is located at between the Van Horn Mountains and Wylie Mountains. It is situated along U.S...
, a ghost town in Culberson County - Lobo, IndonesiaLobo, IndonesiaLobo is a small town in the Bay of Kaimana, West Papua, Indonesia.The settlement was established in 1828 by the Dutch.They established the Fort du Bus at Lobo on Triton Kaimana Bay with the official opening on August 24, 1828....
- Lobo, CameroonLobo, Cameroon-References:* * - Thèse de Donation Avele, Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV * Charles Nanga, , Mémoire ENA....
, a town in Cameroon - Lobo HillLobo HillLobo, also known as El Lobo, Cabezo del Lobo, Cerro del Lobo and Mojón del Lobo, is a 630 m high mountain in the Campo de Belchite comarca, Zaragoza Province, Aragon, Spain, located about 3 km to the south of Belchite and 2 km east of Almonacid de la Cuba.This hill is named after the wolf , for...
, near Belchite, Aragon, Spain
Nickname or professional name
- Lobo (wrestler)Lobo (wrestler)Joe Eubanks is an American professional wrestler best known by the ring name Lobo. He wrestled primarily in Combat Zone Wrestling , where he won every major championship and was the first inductee into the CZW Hall of Fame in 2004...
(born 1975), stage name of Joseph Eubanks, American professional wrestler - "El Lobo", code name for Mikel LejarzaMikel LejarzaMikel Lejarza Eguía was a member of the Spanish intelligence service. During the 1970s, he worked undercover as a double agent infiltrating the Basque separatist organisation ETA. The secret service knew him by the nickname El Lobo...
, Spanish intelligence service operative - Lobo (musician)Lobo (musician)Roland Kent LaVoie, better known by the stage name Lobo , is an American singer-songwriter who was successful in the early 1970s, scoring several U.S...
(born 1943), Roland Kent Lavoie, singer-songwriter - Mr. LoboMr. LoboErik Lobo better known by his stage name Mr. Lobo is an American artist and comedic actor best known as the horror host of the nationally syndicated American television series Cinema Insomnia.-Career :...
, American horror host - Lobo IsmailLobo IsmailIsmail Salah Ismail Loub better known by his stage name Lobo Ismail or just Lobo is a successful Jordanian singer in the Arab World and in Slovakia and the Czech Republic thanks to his hits in the Slovak language and collaborations with...
, Jordanian singer - ShakiraShakiraShakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known professionally as Shakira , is a Colombian singer who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s...
, "la loba", Colombian singer
Film
- Lobo, a character played by Tor JohnsonTor JohnsonTor Johansson , better known by the stage name Tor Johnson, was a Swedish professional wrestler and actor....
in several 1950s horror B-movies - The Legend of LoboThe Legend of LoboThe Legend of Lobo is a 1962 American film that follows the life and adventures of Lobo, a wolf born and raised in southwestern North America. Neither time period nor precise location are specified in the film, in part because the story is told as much from a wolf's point of view as from a human's...
, a 1962 Disney film - Lobo, an alternative name for the 1932 film Trailing the KillerTrailing the KillerTrailing the Killer is an American film directed by Herman C. Raymaker and released by Sono Art-World Wide Pictures.The film is also known as Call of the Wilderness and Lobo.- Plot summary :...
Music
- LoboLobo (musician)Roland Kent LaVoie, better known by the stage name Lobo , is an American singer-songwriter who was successful in the early 1970s, scoring several U.S...
(born Roland Kent Lavoie) a musician who had several hits on the U.S. pop charts during the early '70s - Los LobosLos LobosLos Lobos are a multiple Grammy Award–winning American Chicano rock band from East Los Angeles, California. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country, folk, R&B, blues, brown-eyed soul, and traditional Spanish and Mexican music such as cumbia, boleros and norteños.-History:The...
, an American rock band
Sports
- New Mexico LobosNew Mexico LobosThe New Mexico Lobos are the athletic teams representing the University of New Mexico. The university's athletic program fields teams in 19 varsity sports. The Lobos participate in the NCAA Division I and is a charter member of the Mountain West Conference...
, Athletics team of University of New MexicoUniversity of New MexicoThe University of New Mexico at Albuquerque is a public research university located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States. It is the state's flagship research institution... - Sul Ross State Lobos, Athletics team of Sul Ross State UniversitySul Ross State UniversitySul Ross State University , a public university in Alpine, Texas, is named for former Texas governor, Civil War general Lawrence Sullivan Ross. It was founded in 1917 as Sul Ross Normal College and was made a university in 1969....
Television
- Lobo (television), The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (later just Lobo), an action-adventure comedic series on NBC from 1979 to 1981
- Lobo (TV series)Lobo (TV series)Lobo is Philippine supernatural–fantasy horror TV series produced by ABS-CBN that premiered January 28, 2008 and ran through July 2008...
, a 2008 Filipino series starring Angel Locsin and Piolo Pascual
Writing
- Lobo (DC Comics), a superhuman anti-hero published by DC Comics
- Lobo (Dell Comics)Lobo (Dell Comics)Lobo is a fictional Western comic book hero who is the medium's first African-American character to headline his own series.-Publication history:...
, a Western comic book character considered the first African-American to star in his own book - Lobo, a 1972 book of poetry by William ChildressWilliam ChildressWilliam Childress is an American writer, author, poet, and photojournalist. Childress has received numerous awards, prizes, and accolades for his writing and poetry, and is regarded as one of the foremost poets of the Korean War.-Biography:Born the oldest son of a poor family of migrant...
- Lobo (The King of Currumpaw), a story by Ernest Thompson Seton about a wolf he trapped and shot
Other uses
- Lobo, a cultivar of appleAppleThe apple is the pomaceous fruit of the apple tree, species Malus domestica in the rose family . It is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits, and the most widely known of the many members of genus Malus that are used by humans. Apple grow on small, deciduous trees that blossom in the spring...
from Canada - Lobo, an alternative name for ZamboZamboZambo or Cafuzo are racial terms used in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires and occasionally today to identify individuals in the Americas who are of mixed African and Amerindian ancestry...
in the racial classification of colonial Mexico - Hafei LoboHafei LoboThe Hafei Lobo is a city car based on the Lubao design by Pininfarina produced by the Chinese manufacturer Hafei Motor since 2002.Its chassis is sourced from British company Lotus....
, a car - LOBO Max-80Max-80The MAX-80 is a personal computer released in 1982 by Lobo Systems . It differed from other TRS-80 compatible computers in that it was not hardware compatible with the TRS-80.-Hardware:...
, a TRS-80TRS-80TRS-80 was Tandy Corporation's desktop microcomputer model line, sold through Tandy's Radio Shack stores in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The first units, ordered unseen, were delivered in November 1977, and rolled out to the stores the third week of December. The line won popularity with...
home computer clone