| Mowgli | |
|---|---|
| The Jungle Book character | |
 Mowgli by John Lockwood Kipling (father of Rudyard Kipling); an illustration from The Second Jungle Book (1895) | |
| First appearance | "In the Rukh" (1893) |
| Last appearance | "The Spring Running" (1895) |
| Created by | Rudyard Kipling |
| In-universe information | |
| Nickname | Man-cub, Frog |
| Family | Unnamed parents † Raksha (foster mother) Rama (foster father) Messua (foster mother) Nathoo (foster brother) † |
| Spouse | Unnamed wife |
| Children | Unnamed son |
Mowgli (/ˈmaʊɡli/ MOW-glee) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Mowgli stories featured among Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book stories. He is a feral boy from the Pench area in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, India, who originally appeared in Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" (collected in Many Inventions, 1893) and then became the most prominent character in the collections The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894–1895), which also featured stories about other characters.[1]
- ^ Sale, Roger (1978). "Kipling's Boy's". Fairy Tales and After: from Snow White to E.B. White. Harvard Univ. Press. ISBN 0-674-29157-3.