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Cho (Korean surname)

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Not to be confused with the surname 초, which is also transliterated as "Cho" or "Ch'o".

Cho (Korean: 조, also written as Jo) is a Korean family name, historically Royal family name in Korea[citation needed]. As of 2000, there were 1,347,730 people by this surname in South Korea, about 1% of the total population.[1] The name may represent either of the Hanja 趙 or 曺.[2]

Cho
Hangul
조
Hanja
趙 or 曺
Revised RomanizationJo
McCune–ReischauerCho

List of people with the surname

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Jo

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  • Jo Bang-heon (stage name Tae Jin-ah, born 1953), South Korean trot singer and entertainer
  • Jo Bo-ah (born 1991), South Korean actress
  • Jo Byeong-kyu (born 1996), South Korean actor
  • Jo Dong-hyuk (born 1977), South Korean actor
  • Jo Gwang-il (born 1996), South Korean rapper and songwriter
  • Jo Gwang-jo (1482–1520), Korean Neo-Confucian scholar
  • Jo Han-chul (born 1973), South Korean actor
  • Jo Hye-joo (born 1995), South Korean actress and model
  • Jo Hyeon-woo (born 1991), South Korean footballer
  • Jo Hyun-jae (born 1980), South Korean actor
  • Jo In-sung (born 1981), South Korean actor
  • Jo Jae-yoon (born 1974), South Korean actor
  • Jo Jeong-rae (born 1943), South Korean novelist
  • Jo Jin-ho (stage name Jinho, born 1992), South Korean singer, member of boy band Pentagon
  • Jo Jin-kyu (born 1960), South Korean film director
  • Jo Jung-chi (born 1978), South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
  • Jo Jung-eun (born 1996), South Korean actress
  • Jo Jung-min (born 1986), South Korean singer-songwriter
  • Jo Jung-suk (born 1980), South Korean actor
  • Jo Kwang-min (born 1995), South Korean actor, singer, rapper, member of boy band Boyfriend
  • Jo Kwon (born 1989), South Korean singer and entertainer, member of boy band 2AM
  • Jo Mi-hye (stage name Miryo, born 1981), South Korean rapper, member of girl group Brown Eyed Girls
  • Jo Min-su (born 1965), South Korean actress
  • Jo Myong-rok (1928–2010), North Korean military officer
  • Jo Se-ho (born 1982), South Korean comedian
  • Jo Seong-hyeon (stage name Eru, born 1983), American-born South Korean singer and actor
  • Jo Shin-ae (born 1982), South Korean actress and model
  • Jo Soo-min (born 1999), South Korean actress
  • Jo Sumi (born 1962), South Korean coloratura soprano
  • Jo Sung-ha (born 1966), South Korean actor
  • Jo Sung-hee (born 1979), South Korean film director
  • Jo Sung-mo (born 1977), South Korean singer
  • Jo Sung-woo (stage name Code Kunst, born 1989), South Korean composer and music producer
  • Jo Woo-chan (born 2005), South Korean rapper
  • Jo Woo-ri (born 1992), South Korean actress
  • Jo Yeon-hee (born 1977), South Korean actress
  • Jo Yi-jin (born 1982), South Korean actress
  • Jo Yong-in (better known as CoreJJ, born 1994), South Korean League of Legends player
  • Jo Yoon-hee (born 1982), South Korean actress
  • Jo Young-min (born 1995), South Korean actor, singer, member of boy band Boyfriend
  • Jo Young-nam (born 1945), South Korean singer-songwriter
  • Jo Yu-ri (born 2001), South Korean singer and actress
  • Jo Yun-seo (born 1993), South Korean actress

Chough

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Fictional characters

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Notes

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  1. ^ National Statistical Office (2000). "성씨·본관별 가구 및 인구". 인구 총조사 메타DB [Meta-database of the general population census]. Archived from the original on 2007-03-01. Retrieved 2006-01-05.
  2. ^ "행정구역(시도)/성씨·본관별 가구 및 인구" (in Korean). KOSIS. Retrieved 2019-08-27.

See also

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