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

Cho or Jo is a common Korean family name. As of 2000, there were 1,347,730 people by this surname in South Korea of a total population of 45,985,289: more than 2% of the total population.^[1] The name may represent either of the Chinese characters 趙 (same as the Chinese Zhao) and 曺 (Chinese Cao); the first is nearly three times more common.

[edit] Famous Chos

• Jo Gwang-jo (조광조)
• Jo In-Sung (조인성)
• Jo Su-mi (조수미), Grammy award winning South Korean lyric coloratura soprano
• Jo Sung-mo (조성모)
• Cho Byung-hwa (조병화)
• Cho Byung-kuk (조병국)
• Cho Chi-hun (조지훈)
• Cho Chikun (조치훈)
• Cho Dae-hui (조대희)
• Cho Hye-ri ("Wax"), a South Korean singer
• Cho Hun-hyun (조훈현)
• Cho Hyun (조현)
• Cho Hyun-doo (조현두)
• Cho Jae-jin (조재진)
• Jo Kwon (조권)
• Cho Ki-jung (조기정)
• Cho Kyu-hyun (조규현), K-pop singer from boyband Super Junior
• Cho Man-sik (조만식)
• Cho Nam-chul (조남철)
• Cho PD (조중훈)
• Cho Seung-Hui
• Jo Shin-ae (조신애)
• Cho Sonjin (조선진)
• Cho Yong-pil (조용필)
• Cho Yoon-jeong (조윤정)
• Alina Cho, CNN correspondent born to Korean parents
• Frank Cho (조덕현)
• Henry Cho
• John Cho (조요한), Korean-American Actor
• Liz Cho
• Margaret Cho (조모란)
• Raymond Cho

[edit] Notes

1. ^ National Statistical Office (2000). "성씨·본관별 가구 및 인구". 인구 총조사 메타DB [Meta-database of the general population census]. http://kosis.nso.go.kr/cgi-bin/sws_999.cgi?ID=DT_1INOOSB&IDTYPE=3. Retrieved 2006-01-05. 

[edit] See also

• Cho
• List of Korean family names
• Korean culture