Cho (Korean surname)

Cho
Hangul	조
Hanja	趙 also 曺
Revised Romanization	Jo
McCune–Reischauer	Cho

Cho or Jo is a Korean family name.

As of 2000, there were 1,347,730 people by this surname in South Korea, more than 2% of the total population. The name may represent either of the Hanja 趙 (Chinese: Zhao) or 曺 (Chinese: Cao); the former is nearly three times more common.

List of people with the surname

Cho

• Alina Cho, CNN newsperson
• Ann J Cho, member of C-REAL
• Arden Cho, American actress
• Cho Byung-hwa
• Cho Byung-kuk
• Cho Chi-hun
• Cho Chikun, a Korean Go player
• David Yonggi Cho, a Korean Christian minister
• Frank Cho, a comic writer
• Henry Cho, an American comedian, actor, writer, rancher
• Cho Hun-hyun, a Korean Go player
• Wax, born Cho Hye-ri, a South Korean singer
• Cho Hyun
• Cho Hyun-doo
• Cho Jae-hyun, Korean actor
• Cho Jae-jin
• Cho Ja-young, member of girl group Dal Shabet
• John Cho, an American actor
• Cho Ka-eun, member of girl group Dal Shabet
• Cho Ki-jung
• Cho Kyu-hyun, K-pop singer from Super Junior
• Liz Cho, American newscaster
• Cho Man-sik
• Margaret Cho, an American comedian
• Cho Nam-chul
• Cho Namgi, Only Chinese 3-star General of Korean descent
• Cho PD
• Seung-Hui Cho, the shooter responsible for the Virginia Tech massacre
• Cho Son-jin
• Cho Su-bin, youngest member of Dal Shabet
• William "Chobra" Cho, eSports host and famous Cho
• Cho Zang-hee, a Korean neuroscientist
• Cho Yong-pil, a Korean rock musician
• Cho Yoon-jeong

Fictional characters

• Amadeus Cho
• Bo' Rai Cho, a character in the Mortal Kombat games
• Cho Chang, a character in the Harry Potter novels officially Sinified as 张秋 (Zhang Qiu), but sometimes alternately claimed by Cantonese Caos or Korean Chos
• Kimball Cho, a character in The Mentalist

Jo

• Jo Gwang-jo
• Jo Hyun-jae, Korean actor
• Jo In-sung, Korean actor
• Jo Kwang-min, Korean musician
• Jo Kwon
• Jo Myong-rok, North Korean politician
• Jo Seung-woo, Korean actor
• Jo Shin-ae
• Sumi Jo, Grammy-award-winning South Korean coloratura soprano
• Jo Sung-mo, Korean musician
• Jo Young-min, Korean musician

See also

• Chō (surname), a Japanese surname related to the Chinese Zhang
• Cho (disambiguation)
• List of Korean family names
• List of common Korean surnamesfr:Cao