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

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

Sports

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

Television

• Mojo Jojo, a simian character in the American animated TV show The Powerpuff Girls
• 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

Other persons

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

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
• 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)