Cho (Korean surname)
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.[1] 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, former 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
- Cho Seung-hee
- Seung-Hui Cho, the shooter responsible for the Virginia Tech massacre
- Cho Son-jin
- Cho Zang-hee, a Korean neuroscientist
- Cho Yong-pil, a Korean rock musician
- Cho Yoon-jeong, a former Korean tennis player
- Cho Yoon-woo, a Korean actor
- Fictional characters
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- Jo
- Jo Gwang-jo
- Jo Hyun-jae, Korean actor
- Jo In-sung, Korean actor
- Jo Kwang-min, Korean musician
- Jo Kwon, South Korean entertainer and member of 2AM
- Jo Myong-rok, North Korean politician
- Jo Seung-woo, Korean actor
- Jo Shin-ae
- Jo Sojin, Korean musician
- Sumi Jo, Grammy-award-winning South Korean coloratura soprano
- Jo Sung-mo, Korean musician
- Jo Yeo-jeong, Korean actress
- Jo Young-min, Korean musician
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Notes
- ↑ National Statistical Office (2000). "성씨·본관별 가구 및 인구". 인구 총조사 메타DB [Meta-database of the general population census]. Retrieved 2006-01-05.
See also