Tambu may refer to:
Music Tambú (drum), drum especially from Curaçao Tambu (music), a drum, genre of music and dance from the Caribbean Tambu (album), a 1995 album by the band Toto
Other Mount Tambu, New Guinea, site of the 1943 Battle of Mount Tambu Tambu or Tabu, the shell money of the Tolai people.
Fiction Tambu, a 1979 novel by Robert Asprin Tambu, a fictional island in the 1976 Australian television series The Lost Islands.