Cha (Korean surname)

Cha

Language(s)	Korean
Origin
Meaning	Chariot
Region of origin	Korean peninsula
Other names
Variant form(s)	Che (Chinese)

Cha
Hangul	차
Hanja	車
Revised Romanization	Cha
McCune–Reischauer	Ch'a

Notable people with the surname

• Cha Bum-kun (born 1953), South Korean football manager
• Cha Bumseok (1924–2006), South Korean playwright and director
• Cha Chol-ma (born 1956), North Korean businessman
• Cha Chung-hwa (born 1980), South Korean actress
• Cha Do-jin (born 1983), South Korean actor
• Cha Dong-min (born 1986), South Korean retired taekwondo practitioner
• Cha Du-ri (born 1980), German-born South Korean footballer
• Cha Eun-woo (born 1997), South Korean singer and actor, member of boy band Astro
• Cha Gi-suk (1986-2021), South Korean footballer
• Cha Kwi-hyun (born 1975), South Korean footballer
• Cha Han-sik (born 1965), South Korean runner
• N (singer) (born Cha Hak-yeon, 1990), South Korean singer, member of boy band VIXX
• Cha Hong (born 1981), South Korean hairdresser
• Cha Hui-rim (born 1953), North Korean politician
• Cha Hun (born 1994), South Korean singer and actor, member of band N.Flying
• Cha Hwa-yeon (born 1960), South Korean actress
• Cha Hyon-hyang (born 1979), South Korean judoka
• Cha Hyo-sim (born 1994), North Korean table tennis player
• Yuri (Korean singer) (born Cha Hyun-ok, 1976), South Korean singer
• Cha Hyung-won (1890-1972), South Korean living national treasure
• Cha In-pyo (born 1967), South Korean actor
• Cha Jin-ho, South Korean wheelchair curler
• Cha Jun-hwan (born 2001), South Korean figure skater
• Cha Seung-won (born 1970), South Korean actor
• Baro (entertainer) (born Cha Sun-woo, 1992), South Korean entertainer, member of boy band B1A4
• Cha Tae-hyun (born 1976), South Korean actor
• Steph Cha (born 1986), Korean American novelist and fiction writer
• Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982), South Korean novelist
• Victor Cha (born 1960), American political scientist
• Virginia Cha, Korean American news anchor

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Cha
• All pages with titles containing Cha
• Chal (name)
• Char (name)

References

• Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

• A 2001 Korea Now article explaining the clan structure