Biblical figures •
Joseph (Genesis), son of Jacob in the Hebrew Bible book of Genesis •
Saint Joseph, husband of Mary, the mother of Jesus •
Joseph of Arimathea, secret disciple of Jesus •
Joseph Barsabbas, one of two candidates to replace
Judas Iscariot's position among the
Twelve Apostles •
Joseph ben Caiaphas, the Jewish high priest related to the
crucifixion of Jesus. Only written as 'Caiaphas' in the
New Testament.
Royalty •
Austria •
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor •
Joseph II of Austria •
Franz Joseph I of Austria •
Archduke Joseph August of Austria •
Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria •
Portugal •
Joseph I of Portugal, King of Portugal •
Joseph, Prince of Brazil •
Joseph, General Inquisitor (1720–1801) – a natural son of King
John V of Portugal, one of the
Children of Palhavã. •
Spain/Italy/France •
Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, King of Naples and Spain •
Bavaria •
Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria •
Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, King of Bavaria •
Other •
Joseph (Khazar), king of the Khazars during the 950s and 960s •
Chief Joseph (1840–1904), Nez Perce tribal leader
A •
Joseph "Jo" Abbott (1840–1908), U.S. congressman from Texas •
John Joseph Abercrombie (1798–1877), career U.S. Army officer •
Joseph Ackabee (1895–1973), Ojibwe veteran of World War I. •
Joseph Albrier, French painter •
Joseph "Doc" Alexander, American NFL football player and coach •
Joe Alwyn, British actor •
Joseph Arthur Ankrah (1915–1992), 2nd president of Ghana from 1966 to 1969 •
Joseph Anoa'i, Samoan-American wrestler •
Joseph Armone (1917–1992), American mobster
B •
Joseph von Baader (1763–1835), German engineer and rail transport pioneer •
Joseph Ayo Babalola, Nigerian religious figure •
Joseph F. Baca (born 1936), chief justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court •
Joseph Baldi (1941–2009), American serial killer •
Joseph D. "Joe" Ball (1896–1938), American murderer and suspected serial killer •
Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist •
Joseph Barboza (1932–1976), American hitman •
Joseph Beam (1954–1988), African-American gay rights activist and writer •
Joseph Belmont (1947–2022), Seychellois politician •
Joseph Bertolozzi (born 1959), American composer •
Joseph Beuys, German artist •
Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden (born 1942), 46th president of the United States (2021–2025); 47th vice president of the United States (2009–2017); U.S. senator from Delaware (1973–2009) •
Joseph "Beau" Robinette Biden (1969–2015), American lawyer, soldier and politician, son of Joe Biden •
Joseph Bitangcol, Filipino actor •
Joseph Tetsuro Bizinger, known online as The Anime Man, Japanese Australian YouTuber, voice actor, songwriter, and podcaster •
Joseph Brodsky, Russian and American poet and essayist •
Joe Burrow, American football player •
Joey Buttafuoco (born 1956), American man who had an affair with 17 year-old
Amy Fisher •
Jos Buttler, English cricketer
C •
Joseph Antony Cafazzo, Canadian engineer, educator and researcher •
Joseph Caillaux (1863–1944), French politician and Minister of France •
Joseph Campbell, American writer and professor •
Joseph Campisi, American mobster •
Joseph Carraro (born 1944), former New Mexico state senator •
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914), British statesman, diplomats, and businessman •
Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar, Indian actor •
Joseph Charlton (born 1997), American football player •
Joseph Cherorot, Kenyan MP •
Joe Choynski, American boxer •
Joseph Christopher (1955–1993), American serial killer •
Joseph Civello, American mobster •
Joe Clancy, American football player •
Joseph W. Coker (1930–2019), American politician •
Harry Connick, Jr. (Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr.), American singer, actor and pianist •
Joseph Connors, American art historian •
Joseph Conrad, Polish-British writer •
Joseph Cook (1860–1947), 6th prime minister of Australia •
Joseph Cotten, American actor •
Joseph Force Crater (fl. 1889–1930), New York judge who disappeared
D •
Joseph Danks (born 1962), American spree/serial killer •
Joseph James DeAngelo (born 1945), American serial killer and rapist and former cop •
Joseph Delaney (1945–2022), English author •
Joseph Dempsie, British actor •
Joseph Dennie, American writer •
Joseph Daye, Australian footballer •
Joe Dickerson, American soccer referee •
Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player •
Joe Dolan, Irish showband singer •
Joseph Dudley (1647–1720), British military commander and colonial administrator •
Joseph Edward Duncan (1963–2021), American serial killer, rapist, and kidnapper
E •
Joseph Eisele (1834–1868), German serial killer •
Joseph W. Esherick, American historian of China •
Joseph Estrada (born 1937), 13th president of the Philippines •
Joe Exotic (born 1963), American media personality convicted of animal abuse and conspiring murder for hire
F •
Joseph Fenton, informer killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army • Joseph Peter Moraes Fernando, also known as
Premnath Moraes (1923–1998), Sri Lankan Tamil actor, film director and screenwriter •
Joseph Fitzgerald (disambiguation), multiple people • Joseph Flores (born 1999), American singer and songwriter known as
TEMPOREX •
Joseph Peter de Fonseka (1897–1948), Sri Lankan essayist and editor •
Joseph Fourier (1768–1830), French mathematician and physicist •
Joseph Paul Franklin (1950–2013), American serial killer and neo-Nazi •
Joe Frazier, American boxer
G •
Joseph Galletta, American politician •
Joseph M.L. Gardner (1970–2008), American murderer •
Joe Garagiola, American baseball player and broadcaster •
Joseph Garrett (born 1990), known online as stampylonghead, British YouTube personality •
Joseph Jean Auguste Gay (1865–1938), French anarchist and acrobat •
Joseph Gelfer, British researcher in religion and masculinities •
Joseph Glidden (1813–1906), inventor of barbed wire •
Joseph Isaac Gnanamuttu (died 1944), Sri Lankan Tamil politician •
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945), German politician and propaganda minister of Nazi Germany •
Joseph Goldwasser (1919–1971), Polish-born American businessman •
Joe Gomez (footballer), English footballer •
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American actor •
Joseph Görres (1776–1848), German writer, philosopher, and theologian •
Joseph A. Greene, state senator in South Carolina
H •
Joseph Hagan, American politician •
Joseph Hagerty, American gymnast •
Joseph Hahn, American musician •
Joe Hawley, American singer, songwriter, and musician •
Joe Hart, English football player •
Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer •
Joseph Hedley, English quilter and murder victim •
Joseph Heller, American author •
Joseph Hemphill (1770–1842), U.S. congressman from Pennsylvania • Joseph Turner Henderson, known as
Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson (1920–1980), Scottish pianist, composer and broadcaster •
Joseph Higginson, British Royal Marine in the Napoleonic Wars •
Joseph Hillström (1879–1915), Swedish-American labour activist and songwriter •
Joseph Chan Ho-lim, Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, and a former member of the Central and Western District Council (Peak Constituency) in Hong Kong •
Joseph Stephen Holt (1947–2014), American posthumously linked murderer and possible serial killer •
Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist •
Joe Horlen, American baseball player •
Joseph Howland (1834–1886), American general, politician, and philanthropist
J •
Joe Jacobi, American canoer •
Joe Jacobson, Welsh soccer player •
Joe Jonas, lead vocals, the Jonas Brothers •
Joseph Coulon de Jumonville (1718–1754), French Canadian military officer
K •
Joseph Kabila (born 1971), 4th president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo •
Joseph Kabui (1954–2008), first president of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville •
Joseph Kaiser, Canadian opera singer •
Jusuf Kalla (born 1942), 10th vice president of Indonesia (2004–2009); 12th vice president of Indonesia (2014–2019) •
Joseph Kallinger (1935–1996), American serial killer and rapist •
Joe Kaminer, South African rugby player •
Joe Katchik, American football player •
Joe Keeble, American football player •
Joe Kehoskie (born 1973), American baseball executive •
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (1888–1969), American businessman, financier and politician •
Joseph P. Kennedy II (born 1952), oldest son of Senator and Attorney General
Robert F. Kennedy and former congressman from Massachusetts •
Joe Kennedy III (born 1980), son of Joseph P. Kennedy II and former congressman from Massachusetts •
Joe Kennedy (Georgia politician) (1930–1997), American politician from Georgia •
Joseph Abu Khalil (1925–2019), Lebanese politician and journalist •
Joseph Kibweteere (born 1932, disappeared 2000), Ugandan cult leader •
Joseph Thomas Knott Jr. (born 1926), American politician •
Joseph Thomas Knott III (born 1951), American lawyer •
Joseph Kondro (1959–2012), American murderer and possible serial killer •
Joseph Koo, Hong Kong composer and arranger
L •
Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736–1813) Italian-French mathematician, physicist and astronomer •
Joe Lamas, American football player •
Joe Lieberman (1942–2024), U.S. senator from Connecticut •
Joseph Loake, British racing driver •
Joseph Louis Barrow, American boxer and heavyweight champion better known as "Joe Louis" •
Joseph Lyons (1879–1939), 10th prime minister of Australia
M •
Joseph B. MacInnis (born 1937), Canadian physician, underwater diver and author •
Joseph Magaletti (1950–2015), American murderer and suspected serial killer •
Joe Magidsohn, Russian, American football player •
Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821), French diplomat and philosopher •
Joseph Makilap, Kenyan MP •
Joseph Di Mambro (1924–1994), French cult leader •
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American film director, producer and screenwriter •
Joseph Marcello, Italian-American mobster •
Joseph Marco, Filipino actor •
Joseph Marwa (boxer), Tanzanian boxer •
Joseph Massino (1943–2023), former boss of Bonanno crime family •
Joe Mauer, American baseball player •
Joseph May, British-born Canadian-American actor •
Joseph Mawle, British actor •
Joseph Mazzello, American actor •
Joseph Carlisle McAlhany (1915–2005), American politician •
Joseph McCarthy (1908–1957), U.S. senator from Wisconsin •
Joe McElderry, British singer and winner of
The X Factor •
Joe McGlone (1896–1963), American football player •
Joseph Mengele (1911–1979), Nazi scientist •
Joseph Henry Mensah (1928–2018), Ghanaian economist and politician •
Joseph Mercado, Filipino statistician •
Joseph Carey Merrick, the "Elephant Man" •
Joseph F. Merrill, American Latter-day Saint apostle •
Joseph Robert Miller (born 1955), American serial killer •
Joe Minucci (born 1981), American football player •
Joe Montana, American Hall of Fame NFL quarterback •
Joseph P. Moran (1895–1934), American surgeon and gangster •
Joseph S. Murphy (1933–1998), American political scientist and university administrator
N •
Joseph P. Nadeau (born 1936), justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court •
Joe Namath (born 1943), American Hall of Fame NFL quarterback •
Joseph Naso (born 1934), American serial killer •
Joseph L. Nellis, Washington attorney involved in various government investigations into organized crime in America • Joseph Nevels, also known as
JSPH, singer/songwriter •
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833), first person to create a permanent photograph •
Joseph Noteboom (born 1995), American football player •
Joseph Nye (1937–2025), American political scientist
O •
Joseph Odom (born 1992), American professional baseball catcher •
Joseph Bennet Odunton (1920–2004), Ghanaian civil servant • •
Joseph Oliver (disambiguation), multiple people •
Joe O'Malley, American football player •
Joseph Oosting, Dutch football player
P •
Joseph C. Painter (1840–1911), American politician •
Joe Pasquale, winner of the 4th series of ''I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!'' •
Joseph Paulo, New Zealand rugby player •
Joe Paterno, Penn State football coach •
Joe Pavelski (born 1984), American ice hockey player • Joseph Scott Pemberton, a US Marine lance corporal convicted of the homicide
of Jennifer Laude, a Filipino trans woman •
Joseph Michael Perera (1941–2023), Sri Lankan politician •
Joe Perry, Aerosmith lead guitarist •
Joe Pesci, American actor •
Joseph (Petrovykh) (1872–1937), metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church •
Joe Picker (born 1987), Australian rugby player •
Joseph Pickett, American painter •
Joseph Yuvaraj Pillay (born 1934), Singaporean civil servant •
Joseph Planta (1744–1828), Swiss principal librarian of the British Museum •
Joseph Planta (1787–1847), English politician •
Joseph Plunkett (1887–1916), Irish Republican and Poet •
Joseph Polchinski, theoretical physicist and string theorist •
Joseph Ponniah, 1st Bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Batticaloa •
Joseph Prince, a pastor and IT consultant •
Joe Prokop (born 1960), American football player •
Joe Prokop (halfback) (1921–1995), American football player
R •
Joe Ranft, American screenwriter, animator, storyboard artist and voice actor •
Joseph Ratzinger, given name of Pope Benedict XVI •
Joe Righetti (born 1947), American football player •
Joseph Lionel Christie Rodrigo (1895–1972), Sri Lankan Sinhala professor of Classics •
Joe Root, a 19th-century American naturalist from
Erie,
Pennsylvania •
Joe Root, English cricketer •
Joseph Rosenzweig, (c.1891–?), American New York City labor racketeer •
Joe Ruby (1933–2020), American cartoonist and producer
S •
Joseph Safra (1938–2020), Brazilian banker •
Joseph Sarvananthan,
Sri Lankan Tamil Anglican priest •
Joe Sasto, American chef •
Joe Satriani, instrumental rock guitarist •
Joseph Scates (born 2000), American football player •
Joe Schilling, American kick-boxer •
Joseph "Beppo" Schmid (1901–1956), Air force general in Nazi Germany •
Joseph Schooling (born 1995), Singaporean swimmer •
Joseph Shuster (1914–1992), Canadian-American comic artist, best known for creating
Superman •
Joseph Simmons, aka DJ Run, of rap group Run-DMC •
Joseph Simmons (guitarist), American guitarist •
Joseph Hill Sinex (1819–1892), Pennsylvania State Representative •
Joseph "Chip" Skowron (born c.1969), American portfolio manager convicted of insider trading •
Joseph Smith, founder of the
Latter Day Saint movement •
Joseph Smith III, son of Joseph Smith and founder of the
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints •
Joseph F. Smith, 6th
president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints •
Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th
president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints •
Joseph Stalin (1878–1953), General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1922–1953 •
Joe Stringfellow (1918–1992), American football player •
Joe Strummer, English musician •
Joe Sugg, British YouTuber
T •
Joseph Tapine (born 1994), New Zealand rugby league player •
Joseph Thornton (1808–1891), English bookseller based in Oxford •
Joseph Ture Jr. (born 1951), American serial killer, kidnapper, and burglar
V •
Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas (born 1974), Sri Lankan cricketer •
Joseph Valtellini (born 1985), Canadian kickboxer •
Joseph of Vatopedi (1921–2009), Greek Cypriot Orthodox monk •
Joseph Vaz, Indian Catholic priest, "Apostle of Sri Lanka" •
Joseph Vidal (1933–2020), French politician •
Joe Vetrano (1918–1995), American football player •
Joe Vodicka, American football player
W •
Joseph Wapasha ( 1816–1876), Mdewakanton Sioux chief •
Joseph Wallace (1989–1993), American murder victim • Joseph T. Wesbecker (1942–1989), American mass murderer who perpetrated the
Standard Gravure shooting •
Joss Whedon, American screenwriter, director and producer •
Joseph Wilf (1925–2016), Polish-born American businessman •
Joe Winkler (1922–2001), American football player •
Joseph B. Wirthlin, American Latter-day Saint apostle •
Joseph Wiseman (1918–2009), Canadian actor
Y •
Joseph Angell Young, American Latter-day Saint apostle ==Fictional characters==