Jojo

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Jojo, JoJo or Jo Jo is a given name, surname, nickname or stage name used by several people and fictional characters, including:

People with the given name, nickname or stage name

Musicians

  • Jojo (Bengali singer), Bengali singer
  • JoJo (singer) (born 1990), American singer, songwriter and actress
  • Miss Jojo, Rwandan R&B singer Josiane Uwineza (born 1983)
  • JoJo Billingsley (1952–2010), American singer, soloist and songwriter
  • Jojo Garza, American musician, member of Los Lonely Boys
  • JoJo Hailey (born 1971), American R&B singer, half of K-Ci & JoJo and Jodeci
  • John Hermann, American musician, keyboardist for Widespread Panic
  • Joseph Hoo Kim (born 1942), Jamaican reggae record producer
  • Jo Jo Laine (1953–2006), American singer, model, actress, and rock groupie
  • Jojo Mason (born 1990), Canadian musician
  • Jojo Mayer (born 1963), Swiss drummer
  • Jonathan Richman (born 1951), American proto-punk singer-songwriter
  • Joseph Simmons (born 1964), stage name Rev. Run or DJ Run, a founding member of the hip hop group Run–D.M.C.
  • JoJo Siwa (born 2003), American singer and YouTuber

Sports people

  • Jojó (born 1970), Mozambican retired footballer
  • JoJo Dickson (born 1989), player in the Canadian Football League
  • Jojo Duncil (born 1983), Philippine Basketball Association player
  • Jo Jo English (born 1970), American former National Basketball Association player, top scorer in the 1999-2000 Israel Basketball Premier League.
  • Jojo Lastimosa (born 1964), former Philippine Basketball Association player
  • Jo-Jo Moore (1908–2001), American Major League Baseball player
  • JoJo Offerman (born 1994), American professional wrestler, singer. and actress
  • Jojo Ogunnupe (born 1992), Nigerian footballer
  • JoJo Polk (born 1978), American former Arena Football League player
  • Jo-Jo Reyes (born 1984), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  • JoJo Romero (born 1996), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  • JoJo Starbuck (born 1951), American figure skater
  • Jojo Tangkay (born 1976), Philippine basketball player
  • Jo-Jo Townsell (born 1960), American National Football League player, member of the Hall of Fame
  • Jo Jo White (1946–2018), American retired National Basketball Association player
  • Jo-Jo White (1909–1986), American retired Major League Baseball player
  • Jonatan Christie (born 1997), Indonesian badminton player
  • Jo Jo Pascua (born 1965), Filipino professional boxer

Other people

  • Jo-Jo The Dog-Faced Boy, Fedor Jeftichew, Russian–American sideshow performer of the late 1800s
  • Jawed Ahmad (1986–2009), Afghan reporter imprisoned by the American military in 2007, then released without explanation in 2008
  • Jejomar Binay (born 1942), Philippine Vice-President and former mayor of Makati
  • Jojo Chintoh (born c. 1944), Canadian television journalist
  • JoJo Fletcher (born 1990), American reality TV star on The Bachelorette Season 12
  • Jo Frost (born 1971), British nanny and TV personality of Supernanny fame, who addresses herself to children as “Jo-Jo”
  • Jojo Lapus (1945–2006), Filipino show business columnist and screenwriter
  • Jojo Moyes (born 1969), British romance novelist and journalist
  • Paquito Ochoa, Jr. (born 1960), Filipino politician and lawyer
  • JoJo Savard, Canadian self-proclaimed psychic
  • JoJo Wright, American radio host
  • Jojo Rabbit, a 2019 American satirical comedy-drama film

People with the surname

  • Hideo Jojo (born 1975), Japanese film director and screenwriter
  • Jōjō Masashige (1545–1643), Japanese samurai
  • Shinji Jojo (born 1977), Japanese retired footballer

Fictional characters with the name

  • 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
  • JoJo Tickle, main character of JoJo’s Circus, an American children’s television show
  • John Joseph “Jo Jo” McCann, main character of Looking After Jo Jo, a 1998 BBC Scotland television series
  • Jojo Harte, on the Irish television series Raw (2008–2013)
  • Mojo Jojo, a simian character in the American animated television show The Powerpuff Girls
  • Every protagonist in the Japanese manga series JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
    • Jonathan Joestar, the protagonist of Phantom Blood
    • Joseph Joestar, the protagonist of Battle Tendency
    • Jotaro Kujo, the protagonist of Stardust Crusaders
    • Josuke Higashikata, two different characters with the same name, protagonists of Diamond is Unbreakable and JoJolion. (The suke (助) in the Japanese name may also be pronounced as “Jo”)
    • Giorno Giovanna, the protagonist of Golden Wind
    • Jolyne Cujoh, the protagonist of Stone Ocean
    • Johnny Joestar, the protagonist of Steel Ball Run
  • Jojo Khalastra, on The Comedy Store Israeli television show
  • Jojo, in the Beatles song “Get Back”
  • Jojo the Kissing Bandit, in the Avatar: The Last Airbender trading card game
  • Granny Jojo Watterson, a pink rabbit character in the American animated television show The Amazing World of Gumball
  • Jojo, main character of the Belgian comic series Jojo created by André Geerts
  • Johannes “Jojo” Betzler, the young protagonist of Jojo Rabbit, a comedy-drama film
  • JoJo, one of the titular characters in British TV series JoJo & Gran Gran