Jojo

Jojo or JoJo is a common nickname for people whose name begins with "Jo", which is in process of developing into a name in its own right. Jojo may refer to:

Music

• Singer Joanna Levesque - (born 1990), American entertainer
  • JoJo (album), her 2004 debut album
• Lil Jojo, Nigerian rapper, singer and songwriter
• JoJo Billingsley, an American singer, soloist, songwriter and recording artist
• Jojo Garza, American musician, member of Los Lonely Boys
• Joel "JoJo" Hailey, American R&B singer, half of K-Ci & JoJo
• John "JoJo" Hermann, American musician, keyboardist for Widespread Panic
• Jo Jo Hoo Kim, Jamaican reggae record producer
• Jo Jo Laine (1953–2006), American singer, model, actress, and rock groupie
• Jojo Mayer (born 1963), Swiss drummer
• Jonathan "JoJo" Richman, American proto-punk singer-songwriter
• Joseph "JoJo" Simmons, member of Team Blackout mostly known on Run's House
• "Jojo", a single by Boz Scaggs from his 1980 album Middle Man
• Jojo, a character in the Beatles song "Get Back"

Sports

• Jojó (footballer born 1970), Mozambiquan defender on the 1998 African Cup of Nations Team of the Tournament
• Jojo Duncil (born 1983), Filipino professional basketball player
• Jo Jo English (born 1970), American professional basketball player
• Jojo Lastimosa (born 1964), Filipino professional basketball player
• Jo-Jo Moore (1908–2001), American professional baseball player
• Jo-Jo Reyes (born 1984), American professional baseball pitcher
• JoJo Starbuck (born 1951), American figure skater
• Jo-Jo Townsell (born 1960), American professional football player
• Jo Jo White (born 1946), American professional basketball player

Television

• JoJo's Circus, an American children's TV show featuring the character JoJo Tickle
• Jojo the Kissing Bandit, a character in the Avatar: The Last Airbender trading card game
• Jojo Lapus, a showbiz columnist and screenwriter
• Mojo Jojo, a simian character in the American animated TV show The Powerpuff Girls

Other persons

• Jejomar Binay (born 1942), nicknamed JoJo, Philippine Vice-President and former mayor of Makati
• Jojo Chintoh (born c. 1940), Canadian television journalist
• Jōjō Masashige (1545–1643), Japanese samurai of the 16th and 17th centuries
• Jojo Moyes (born 1969), British novelist
• JoJo Savard, Canadian self-proclaimed psychic
• Jo-Jo The Dog-Faced Boy, Fedor Jeftichew, Russian–American sideshow performer of the late 1800s
• JoJo Wright, American radio host

Other uses

• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, a manga, anime, and video game in which every protagonist's name can be read as JoJo
• Jojo, a 1988 novel by Roger Caron
• Jojo, a protagonist in the musical Seussical, as well as the book Horton Hears a Who!, on which the musical was partly based.
• Jo Jo Dancer, the title character, played by Richard Pryor, in the film Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling

See also

• Jojos, a kind of food, also known as potato wedges
• Yo-yo (disambiguation)