Joseph is a name

Name

A name is a word or term used for identification. Names can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. A personal name identifies a specific unique and identifiable individual person, and may or may not include a middle name...

 originating from Hebrew

Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...

, recorded in the Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible

The Hebrew Bible is a term used by biblical scholars outside of Judaism to refer to the Tanakh , a canonical collection of Jewish texts, and the common textual antecedent of the several canonical editions of the Christian Old Testament...

, as יוֹסֵף, Standard Hebrew Yosef, Tiberian Hebrew

Tiberian Hebrew

Tiberian Hebrew is the extinct canonical pronunciation of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh and related documents in the Roman Empire. This traditional medieval pronunciation was committed to writing by Masoretic scholars based in the Jewish community of Tiberias , in the form of the Tiberian vocalization...

 and Aramaic Yôsēp̄. In Arabic, including in the Qur'an

Qur'an

The Quran , also transliterated Qur'an, Koran, Alcoran, Qur’ān, Coran, Kuran, and al-Qur’ān, is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God . It is regarded widely as the finest piece of literature in the Arabic language...

, the name is spelled يوسف or Yūsuf

Yusuf

Yūsuf , , is an Islamic prophet mentioned in the Qur'an, the holy scripture of Islam. The figure corresponds to the character from the Jewish texts and the Christian Bible as Joseph and is the Arabic variant of that name...

. The name can be translated from Hebrew יהוה להוסיף Yihoh Lhosif as signifying "YHWH will increase/add". This variant of the name is used mostly in English, French and German-speaking countries. Diminutives of Joseph include: Joe

Joe

Joe may be a nickname originating from the name "Joseph", "Josephina" and others.Joe may refer to:-People:* Joe , an American R&B singer and record producer* Joe , a character known only as "Joe" on the popular children's show...

 and Joey

Joey

- Animals :* Joey , an infant marsupial* Joey, a Blue-fronted Amazon parrot who was one of the Blue Peter pets-People with the given name Joey:* Joey Benjamin , English cricketer* Joey Bishop , entertainer...

 for males, and Jo

Jo

JO, Jo or jo may refer to:*Jō, a ~4-foot-long wooden staff used in some Japanese martial arts*Cho , , also spelled Jo, a common Korean family name*Jo , a 1971 French comedy...

 for females. It is sometimes abbreviated as Jos. The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yosef".

In the Old Testament

Old Testament

The Old Testament, of which Christians hold different views, is a Christian term for the religious writings of ancient Israel held sacred and inspired by Christians which overlaps with the 24-book canon of the Masoretic Text of Judaism...

, Joseph

Joseph (Hebrew Bible)

Joseph is an important character in the Hebrew bible, where he connects the story of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in Canaan to the subsequent story of the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt....

 is Jacob

Jacob

Jacob "heel" or "leg-puller"), also later known as Israel , as described in the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, the New Testament and the Qur'an was the third patriarch of the Hebrew people with whom God made a covenant, and ancestor of the tribes of Israel, which were named after his descendants.In the...

's eleventh son and Rachel

Rachel

Rachel , as described in the Hebrew Bible, is a prophet and the favorite wife of Jacob, one of the three Biblical Patriarchs, and mother of Joseph and Benjamin. She was the daughter of Laban and the younger sister of Leah, Jacob's first wife...

's first.
In the New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

, Joseph

Saint Joseph

Saint Joseph is a figure in the Gospels, the husband of the Virgin Mary and the earthly father of Jesus Christ ....

 is the husband of the virgin Mary

Mary (mother of Jesus)

Mary , commonly referred to as "Saint Mary", "Mother Mary", the "Virgin Mary", the "Blessed Virgin Mary", or "Mary, Mother of God", was a Jewish woman of Nazareth in Galilee...

. In the New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

 there is another Joseph as well, Joseph of Arimathea

Joseph of Arimathea

Joseph of Arimathea was, according to the Gospels, the man who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus after Jesus' Crucifixion. He is mentioned in all four Gospels.-Gospel references:...

, a secret disciple of Jesus who supplied the tomb in which Jesus was buried.

Variations

Variations for males include:

• Afrikaans: Josef
• Albanian
  Albanian language
  Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...
  
  : Jozef, Zef, Josif, Josip, Isuf
• Alsatian
  Alsatian language
  Alsatian is a Low Alemannic German dialect spoken in most of Alsace, a region in eastern France which has passed between French and German control many times.-Language family:...
  
  : Sepp
• Armenian
  Armenian language
  The Armenian language is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian people. It is the official language of the Republic of Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The language is also widely spoken by Armenian communities in the Armenian diaspora...
  
  : Հովսեփ Hovsep
• Arabic
  Arabic language
  Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
  
  : يوسف, Yūsuf, Youssef, Yussef
• Azerbaijani
  Azerbaijani language
  Azerbaijani or Azeri or Torki is a language belonging to the Turkic language family, spoken in southwestern Asia by the Azerbaijani people, primarily in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran...
  
  : Yusif, Yusuf, Usub
• Belarusian
  Belarusian language
  The Belarusian language , sometimes referred to as White Russian or White Ruthenian, is the language of the Belarusian people...
  
  : Іосіф, Iosif, Язэп, Yazep
• Bosnian
  Bosnian language
  Bosnian is a South Slavic language, spoken by Bosniaks. As a standardized form of the Shtokavian dialect, it is one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina....
  
  : Josip, Jusuf
• Basque
  Basque language
  Basque is the ancestral language of the Basque people, who inhabit the Basque Country, a region spanning an area in northeastern Spain and southwestern France. It is spoken by 25.7% of Basques in all territories...
  
  : Joseba, Josepe
• Bulgarian
  Bulgarian language
  Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the...
  
  : Йосиф, Yosif
• Catalan
  Catalan language
  Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
  
  : Josep, Pep (shortened form)
• Corsican
  Corsican language
  Corsican is a Italo-Dalmatian Romance language spoken and written on the islands of Corsica and northern Sardinia . Corsican is the traditional native language of the Corsican people, and was long the vernacular language alongside the Italian, official language in Corsica until 1859, which was...
  
  : Ghjaseppu
• Croatian
  Croatian language
  Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...
  
  : Josip, Joso, Jozo, Joško, Joža
• Czech
  Czech language
  Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
  
  : Josef, Jožka, Pepa, Pepík, Pepik, Pepan, Pepča, Pepek, Pepino, Jožin
• Danish: Joseph, Josef
• Dutch
  Dutch language
  Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
  
  : Jozef, Joost, Jos, Jo, Jef, Seppe
• English: Joseph, Joe, Joey
• Esperanto: Jozefo
• Estonian
  Estonian language
  Estonian is the official language of Estonia, spoken by about 1.1 million people in Estonia and tens of thousands in various émigré communities...
  
  : Joosep, Joosu
• Faroese
  Faroese language
  Faroese , is an Insular Nordic language spoken by 48,000 people in the Faroe Islands and about 25,000 Faroese people in Denmark and elsewhere...
  
  : Jósef
• Finnish: Jooseppi, Juuso
• French: Joseph
• Friulian
  Friulian language
  Friulan , is a Romance language belonging to the Rhaeto-Romance family, spoken in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy. Friulan has around 800,000 speakers, the vast majority of whom also speak Italian...
  
  : Bepi, Bepo, Bepùt
• Galician
  Galician language
  Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...
  
  : Xosé
• Georgian
  Georgian language
  Georgian is the native language of the Georgians and the official language of Georgia, a country in the Caucasus.Georgian is the primary language of about 4 million people in Georgia itself, and of another 500,000 abroad...
  
  : იოსებ Ioseb
• German: Josef, Joseph; Jupp (familiar); Sepp Seppl or Pepi (familiar or diminutive forms, particularly in South Germany and Austria)
• Greek: Ἰωσήφ, Iōséph, Ιώσηπος, Iosepos, Iosipos
• Hebrew
  Hebrew language
  Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
  
  : יוסף Yosef
• Hindi: Isuppu
• Hungarian: Jóska, József
• Icelandic
  Icelandic language
  Icelandic is a North Germanic language, the main language of Iceland. Its closest relative is Faroese.Icelandic is an Indo-European language belonging to the North Germanic or Nordic branch of the Germanic languages. Historically, it was the westernmost of the Indo-European languages prior to the...
  
  : Jósef , Jói or Jósep
• Indonesian
  Indonesian language
  Indonesian is the official language of Indonesia. Indonesian is a normative form of the Riau Islands dialect of Malay, an Austronesian language which has been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for centuries....
  
  : Yusuf, Yusup, Ucup
• Interlingua: Joseph
• Italian: Giuseppe, Giù, Beppe, Peppe, Peppino, Pino, Bepi, Beppo
• Irish: Seosamh, Iosaf
• Japanese: ヨセフ Yosefu
• Kazakh
  Kazakh language
  Kazakh is a Turkic language which belongs to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic languages, closely related to Nogai and Karakalpak....
  
  : Yusuf, Jusip
• Korean: 요셉 Yosep
• Latin
  Latin
  Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
  
  : Ioséphus
• Latvian
  Latvian language
  Latvian is the official state language of Latvia. It is also sometimes referred to as Lettish. There are about 1.4 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and about 150,000 abroad. The Latvian language has a relatively large number of non-native speakers, atypical for a small language...
  
  : Jāzeps
• Limburgish
  Limburgish language
  Limburgish, also called Limburgian or Limburgic is a group of East Low Franconian language varieties spoken in the Limburg and Rhineland regions, near the common Dutch / Belgian / German border...
  
  : Joep, Sef
• Lithuanian
  Lithuanian language
  Lithuanian is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.96 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 170,000 abroad. Lithuanian is a Baltic language, closely related to Latvian, although they...
  
  : Juozapas, Juozas (shorter form), Juzas (shortest form)
• Lombard: Giüsèpp, Pèpp, Bèpp
• Malayalam
  Malayalam language
  Malayalam , is one of the four major Dravidian languages of southern India. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India with official language status in the state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry. It is spoken by 35.9 million people...
  
  : ഔസേപ് Ousep, Ousef, യോസേപ് Yosef,ഔസേപച്ചന്‍ Ouseppachen, കൊച്ചാപ്പു Kochaappu
• Malay
  Malay language
  Malay is a major language of the Austronesian family. It is the official language of Malaysia , Indonesia , Brunei and Singapore...
  
  : Yusuf, Yusop, Yusoff, Jusoh, Usop
• Manado Malay
  Manado Malay
  Manado Malay is a language spoken in Manado and the surrounding area. The local name of the language is Bahasa Manado, and the name Minahasa Malay is also used, after the main ethnic group speaking the language. Since Manado Malay is used only for spoken communication, there is no standard...
  
  : Josef, Yosef, Oce'
• Maltese
  Maltese language
  Maltese is the national language of Malta, and a co-official language of the country alongside English,while also serving as an official language of the European Union, the only Semitic language so distinguished. Maltese is descended from Siculo-Arabic...
  
  : Ġużeppi, Ġużi, Ġuż, Ġużè, Peppi, Peppu, Peppinu, Pepp, Żeppi, Żeppu, Żepp
• Mandarin Chinese: 约瑟(s
  Simplified Chinese character
  Simplified Chinese characters are standardized Chinese characters prescribed in the Xiandai Hanyu Tongyong Zibiao for use in Mainland China. Along with traditional Chinese characters, it is one of many standard character sets of the contemporary Chinese written language...
  
  ) 約瑟(t
  Traditional Chinese character
  Traditional Chinese characters refers to Chinese characters in any character set which does not contain newly created characters or character substitutions performed after 1946. It most commonly refers to characters in the standardized character sets of Taiwan, of Hong Kong, or in the Kangxi...
  
  ) Yuēsè, 约瑟夫(s
  Simplified Chinese character
  Simplified Chinese characters are standardized Chinese characters prescribed in the Xiandai Hanyu Tongyong Zibiao for use in Mainland China. Along with traditional Chinese characters, it is one of many standard character sets of the contemporary Chinese written language...
  
  ) 約瑟夫(t
  Traditional Chinese character
  Traditional Chinese characters refers to Chinese characters in any character set which does not contain newly created characters or character substitutions performed after 1946. It most commonly refers to characters in the standardized character sets of Taiwan, of Hong Kong, or in the Kangxi...
  
  ) Yuēsèfū, Zho-Zi-Fu
• Maori
  Maori language
  Māori or te reo Māori , commonly te reo , is the language of the indigenous population of New Zealand, the Māori. It has the status of an official language in New Zealand...
  
  : Hohepa
• Norwegian: Josef
• Occitan: Josèp
• Persian
  Persian language
  Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
  
  : يوسف, Yūsuf, Youssef, Yussef
• Polish: Józef (Yu-zef)
• Portuguese: José, Zé (shorter form)
• Romanian
  Romanian language
  Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...
  
  : Iosif
• Russian: Иосиф (Iosif), Осип (Osip)
• Sardinian
  Sardinian language
  Sardinian is a Romance language spoken and written on most of the island of Sardinia . It is considered the most conservative of the Romance languages in terms of phonology and is noted for its Paleosardinian substratum....
  
  : Jisepu
• Scottish Gaelic: Seòsaidh
• Serbian
  Serbian language
  Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
  
  : Јосиф (Josif)
• Sicilian
  Sicilian language
  Sicilian is a Romance language. Its dialects make up the Extreme-Southern Italian language group, which are spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands; in southern and central Calabria ; in the southern parts of Apulia, the Salento ; and Campania, on the Italian mainland, where it is...
  
  : Giuseppi
• Slovak
  Slovak language
  Slovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people...
  
  : Jozef, Jožo, Dodo, Ďoďo
• Slovene: Jožef, Jože
• Spanish: José
  José
  José is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, they are pronounced differently in each language: in Spanish and in Portuguese....
  
  , Pepe
• Sundanese
  Sundanese language
  Sundanese is the language of about 27 million people from the western third of Java or about 15% of the Indonesian population....
  
  : Yusup, Usup, Ucup
• Swedish: Josef
• Syriac
  Syriac language
  Syriac is a dialect of Middle Aramaic that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. Having first appeared as a script in the 1st century AD after being spoken as an unwritten language for five centuries, Classical Syriac became a major literary language throughout the Middle East from...
  
  : ܝܘܣܦ (Yausef, Yausep)
• Turkish
  Turkish language
  Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...
  
  : Yusuf
• Tagalog
  Tagalog language
  Tagalog is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by a third of the population of the Philippines and as a second language by most of the rest. It is the first language of the Philippine region IV and of Metro Manila...
  
  : Jose, Pepe, Peping,
• Tamil
  Tamil language
  Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...
  
  : Yoseppu
• Telugu
  Telugu language
  Telugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu...
  
  : Yosepu
• Ukrainian
  Ukrainian language
  Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....
  
  : Йосип (Yosyp)
• Valencian: Josep
• Venetian
  Venetian language
  Venetian or Venetan is a Romance language spoken as a native language by over two million people, mostly in the Veneto region of Italy, where of five million inhabitants almost all can understand it. It is sometimes spoken and often well understood outside Veneto, in Trentino, Friuli, Venezia...
  
  : Juxepe , Bepi, Bepin
• Vietnamese
  Vietnamese language
  Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam...
  
  : Giu-se.
• Welsh: Joseff
• Yiddish
  Yiddish language
  Yiddish is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. It developed as a fusion of German dialects with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages...
  
  : Yissl, Yussel, Jayzl
• Zimbabwean(Shona): Joze, Joza

Female forms

• Albanian
  Albanian language
  Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...
  
  : Jozefina, Zefina
• English: Jo,Josephine
• French: Joséphine
• Irish: Seosaimhín
• Italian: Giuseppina
• Catalan
  Catalan language
  Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
  
   : Josepa, Pepa (shortened)
• Polish : Józefina (Yo-zef-yna)
• Portuguese: Josefa/Josefina
• Spanish: Josefa/Josefina
• Croatian
  Croatian language
  Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...
  
  : Josipa
• Maltese
  Maltese language
  Maltese is the national language of Malta, and a co-official language of the country alongside English,while also serving as an official language of the European Union, the only Semitic language so distinguished. Maltese is descended from Siculo-Arabic...
  
  : Ġuża/Ġużeppa
• Swedish: Josefin/Josefine
• Yiddish
  Yiddish language
  Yiddish is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. It developed as a fusion of German dialects with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages...
  
  : Jayzl, Yissl

Royalty

• Austria
  • Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor
    Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor
    Joseph I , Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, King of Hungary, King of the Romans was the elder son of Emperor Leopold I and his third wife, Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg....
    
    
  • Joseph II of Austria

• Portugal
  • Joseph I of Portugal, King of Portugal
  • Joseph, Prince of Brazil
  • Joseph, General Inquisitor
    Children of Palhavã
    The children of Palhavã were three male natural sons of King John V of Portugal , which were recognised by the monarch in a document issued in 1742, which was published only after the death of the king, in 1752....
    
     (1720–1801) – a natural son of King John V of Portugal, one of the Children of Palhavã.

• Spain/Italy/France
  • Joseph Bonaparte
    Joseph Bonaparte
    Joseph-Napoléon Bonaparte was the elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, who made him King of Naples and Sicily , and later King of Spain...
    
    , King of Spain, King of Naples

Biblical figures

• Saint Joseph
  Saint Joseph
  Saint Joseph is a figure in the Gospels, the husband of the Virgin Mary and the earthly father of Jesus Christ ....
  
  , husband of Mary the mother of Jesus (according to Christian doctrine)
• Joseph (Hebrew Bible)
  Joseph (Hebrew Bible)
  Joseph is an important character in the Hebrew bible, where he connects the story of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in Canaan to the subsequent story of the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt....
  
  , Old Testament Biblical figure in the book of Genesis
• Joseph of Arimathea
  Joseph of Arimathea
  Joseph of Arimathea was, according to the Gospels, the man who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus after Jesus' Crucifixion. He is mentioned in all four Gospels.-Gospel references:...
  
  , secretive disciple of Jesus

Other

• Josef Broz Tito, Communist leader of Yugoslavia
• Joseph R. Chenelly
  Joseph R. Chenelly
  Joseph R. Chenelly was the first U.S. Marine combat correspondent to step into enemy territory after September 11, 2001, documenting American military action and providing it for broadcast throughout the international media.-Introduction:...
  
  , war correspondent
• Chief Joseph
  Chief Joseph
  Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, popularly known as Chief Joseph, or Young Joseph was the leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain band of Nez Perce during General Oliver O. Howard's attempt to forcibly remove his band and the other "non-treaty" Nez Perce to a reservation in Idaho...
  
  , Nez Perce tribal leader
• Joe Alexander (American football), American 2x All-Pro NFL football player
• Joe Biden
  Joe Biden
  Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President Barack Obama...
  
  , Vice President of the United States of America
• Joe Choynski
  Joe Choynski
  Joseph Bartlett "Joe" Choynski was an American boxer who fought professionally from 1888 to 1904.-Boxing career:"Chrysanthemum Joe", the son of a Polish immigrant that settled in California in 1867, weighed no more than 176 lb throughout his career but regularly fought heavyweights. He was...
  
   ("Chrysanthemum Joe"), American heavyweight Hall of Fame boxer
• Harry Connick, Jr.
  Harry Connick, Jr.
  Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. is an American singer, big-band leader/conductor, pianist, actor, and composer. He has sold over 25 million albums worldwide. Connick is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with...
  
  , or Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr., American singer, actor and pianist
• Joe Camel
  Joe Camel
  Joe Camel was the advertising mascot for Camel cigarettes from late 1987 to July 12, 1997, appearing in magazine advertisements, billboards, and other print media.-History:The U.S. marketing team of R. J...
  
  , Cigarette mascot
• Joseph Connors
  Joseph Connors
  Joseph James Connors is an American art historian specializing in Italian architecture of the Renaissance and Baroque.-Career:A New Yorker by birth, Connors was educated in classical languages at Regis High School and Boston College...
  
  , American art historian
• Joseph Conrad
  Joseph Conrad
  Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born English novelist.Conrad is regarded as one of the great novelists in English, although he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties...
  
  , Polish-British writer
• Joseph Dennie
  Joseph Dennie
  Joseph Dennie was an American author and journalist who was one of the foremost men of letters of the Federalist Era. A Federalist, Dennie is best remembered for his series of essays entitled The Lay Preacher and as the founding editor of Port Folio, a journal espousing classical republican values...
  
  , American writer
• Joseph Dempsie
  Joseph Dempsie
  Joseph "Joe" Maxwell Dempsie is an English actor, best known for playing the role of Chris Miles in the E4 television show Skins. Dempsie's earlier acting credits include the medical dramas Doctors, Peak Practice and Sweet Medicine, as well as the films One for the Road and Heartlands...
  
  , British actor
• Joe DiMaggio
  Joe DiMaggio
  Joseph Paul "Joe" DiMaggio , nicknamed "Joltin' Joe" and "The Yankee Clipper," was an American Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career for the New York Yankees. He is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak , a record that still stands...
  
  , New York Yankees
  New York Yankees
  The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...
  
   hall of famer
• Joe Dolan
  Joe Dolan
  Joseph "Joe" Francis Robert Dolan was an Irish entertainer, recorder and singer of easy listening songs...
  
  , Irish Showband singer
• Joseph Duggar, (born in 1995), reality TV star
• Joe Jonas
  Joe Jonas
  Joseph Adam "Joe" Jonas is a Pop American singer, musician, actor, and dancer. He is a member of the Jonas Brothers, a pop-rock band made up of him and his two brothers, Nick and Kevin...
  
  , lead vocals from the Jonas Brothers
• Josef Doležal
  Josef Doležal
  Josef Doležal was a Czechoslovak athlete who competed mainly in the 50 kilometre walk....
  
   (1920–1999), Czechoslovak race walker
• Joseph Fenton
  Joseph Fenton
  Joseph "Joe" Fenton was an estate agent from Belfast, Northern Ireland, killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army for acting as an informer for the Royal Ulster Constabulary's Special Branch....
  
  , informer killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army
• Josef Fritzl, Austrian sex offender
• Joseph Goebbels
  Joseph Goebbels
  Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. As one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism...
  
  , Propaganda minister of Nazi Germany
• Josep Guardiola
  Josep Guardiola
  Josep "Pep" Guardiola i Sala , is a Spanish football manager and former player. Guardiola played as a defensive midfielder and spent the majority of his playing career with FC Barcelona, whom he currently manages. He was part of Johan Cruyff's dream team that won Barcelona's first European Cup....
  
  , Catalan current trainer and former player of FC Barcelona
  FC Barcelona
  Futbol Club Barcelona , also known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça, is a professional football club, based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain....
  
  
• Joseph Hagerty
  Joseph Hagerty
  Joseph "Joe" Hagerty is an American artistic gymnast. He is the 2008 U.S. national champion on the horizontal bar and the 2008 all-around bronze medalist. He was a member of the bronze medal-winning 2008 U.S. Olympic team.A native of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, Hagerty currently lives and trains at...
  
  , American gymnast
• Joseph Haydn
  Joseph Haydn
  Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
  
  , Austrian composer
• Joseph Heller
  Joseph Heller
  Joseph Heller was a US satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His best known work is Catch-22, a novel about US servicemen during World War II...
  
  , American author
• Joe Horlen
  Joe Horlen
  Joel Edward Horlen is a right-handed former Major League Baseball pitcher. Horlen pitched for the Chicago White Sox from to , and the Oakland Athletics in ....
  
  , American major league baseball All Star pitcher
• Josef Hladký
  Josef Hladký
  Josef Hladký is a retired male medley swimmer from the Czech Republic. He competed for Germany at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, finishing in 32nd place in the men's 200 m individual medley event.-References:*...
  
  , Czech-German medley swimmer
• Joseph Dalton Hooker
  Joseph Dalton Hooker
  Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
  
  , British botanist
• Joe Jacobi
  Joe Jacobi
  Joseph Bennet "Joe" Jacobi is an American slalom canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s.-Career:Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold in the C-2 event at Barcelona in 1992....
  
  , American Olympic champion canoer, Canadian slalom pairs
• Joe Jacobson
  Joe Jacobson
  Joseph Mark "Joe" Jacobson is a Welsh footballer who plays for Shrewsbury Town. He is the former captain of the Wales U21 team, and is also a former captain of the Cardiff City reserve team.- Cardiff City :...
  
  , Wales soccer player (Oldham Athletic
  Oldham Athletic A.F.C.
  Oldham Athletic Association Football Club is an English association football club based at Boundary Park, on Sheepfoot Lane in Oldham, Greater Manchester. The club currently competes in the Football League One, the third tier of the English league...
  
   & U21 national team)
• Joseph Kabui
  Joseph Kabui
  Joseph Canisius Kabui was a secessionist leader and the first President of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, off the coast of Papua New Guinea, from 2005 to 2008. He was also the leader of the Bougainville People's Congress....
  
  , first President of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville
• Joe Kaminer
  Joe Kaminer
  Joe Kaminer was a South African rugby union player.Kaminer, who is Jewish, was born in Warmbad and schooled in Pietersburg. He played a single test for the Boks, making his debut on 16 Aug 1958, with the Boks losing against France at Ellis Park...
  
  , South African rugby union national team
• Joseph Koo
  Joseph Koo
  Joseph Koo Kar-Fai, MBE, SBS is one of the most respected composers in Hong Kong. He used the pen name Moran for Mandarin songs. He is the younger brother of famous Chinese singer Koo Mei .-Career:...
  
  , Hong Kong composer and arranger
• Joe Lieberman
  Joe Lieberman
  Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman is the senior United States Senator from Connecticut. A former member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's nominee for Vice President in the 2000 election. Currently an independent, he remains closely affiliated with the party.Born in Stamford, Connecticut,...
  
  , US Senator from Connecticut
• Josef Lontscharitsch
  Josef Lontscharitsch
  Josef Lontscharitsch is a retired Austrian male road cyclist.-Career:19871989Josef Lontscharitsch is a retired Austrian male road cyclist.-Career:1987...
  
  , Austrian road cyclist
• Joe Magidsohn
  Joe Magidsohn
  Joseph "Joe" Magidsohn was an American football player and official. He played halfback for the University of Michigan Wolverines in 1909 and 1910 and was selected as a second-team All-American by Walter Camp in 1909 and a first-team All-American in 1910...
  
  , Russian, American football player
• Joseph McCarthy
  Joseph McCarthy
  Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957...
  
  , US Senator from Wisconsin
• Joe McElderry
  Joe McElderry
  Joseph "Joe" McElderry is an English singer and model. He won the sixth series of the ITV show The X Factor in 2009. His first single "The Climb" reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and Irish Singles Charts. He was also crowned the winner of the second series of Popstar to Operastar, two...
  
  , British singer and winner of The X Factor (UK Series 6)
• Joseph Marwa
  Joseph Marwa
  Joseph Marwa is a retired male boxer from Tanzania, who represented his native East African country in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 . Nicknamed The Hungry Lion he also competed at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.-References:* *...
  
  , Tanzanian boxer
• József Munk
  József Munk
  József Munk was a Hungarian freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was Jewish....
  
  , Hungarian Olympic medalist swimmer
• Joseph Carey Merrick, the "Elephant Man"
• Joseph Mengele, Nazi scientist
• Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, first person to create a permanent photograph
• Joseph Oosting
  Joseph Oosting
  Joseph Oosting is a retired football midfielder from the Netherlands. He played professional football from 1988 to 2006 for BV Veendam and FC Emmen. He currently plays for WKE from Emmen.-References:...
  
  , Dutch football (soccer) player
• Joseph Oliver
  Joseph Oliver
  Joseph Oliver may refer to:* Joseph Oliver , mayor of Toronto* Joseph Oliver , rugby league footballer of the 1920s and '30s for Great Britain, England, Batley, and Hull F.C....
  
  , America based (SF), English Entrepreneur and Electronic Music Pioneer
• Joe Pasquale
  Joe Pasquale
  Joseph Ellis "Joe" Pasquale is an English comedian from Grays, Essex, arguably most famous for his high-pitched voice, use of visual gags and more recently being crowned "King of the Jungle", on the reality TV show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!...
  
  , winner of the 4th series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!
• Joe Pavelski
  Joe Pavelski
  Joseph Pavelski is an American professional ice hockey player now playing for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League . He scored a goal in his first NHL game, making him the 11th Sharks player in the history of the team to do so...
  
   (born 1984), American professional ice hockey player
• Joe Perry
  Joe Perry (musician)
  Anthony Joseph "Joe" Perry is the lead guitarist, backing and occasional lead vocalist, and contributing songwriter for the rock band Aerosmith. He is influenced by many rock artists especially The Rolling Stones and The Beatles...
  
  , Aerosmith lead guitarist
• Józef Piłsudski, First Marshal of Poland
• Jozef Plachý
  Jozef Plachý
  Jozef Plachý is a former middle distance runner from Slovakia, who represented Czechoslovakia in four consecutive Summer Olympics. He set his personal best in the men's 1500 metres in 1977.-Achievements:...
  
  , Slovak middle distance runner
• Joseph Planta (librarian)
  Joseph Planta (librarian)
  Joseph Planta FRS , aka Joseph von Planta, was a librarian of Swiss origin who moved to London and became the Principal Librarian of the British Museum....
  
   (1744–1828), Swiss Principal Librarian of the British Museum, and his son Sir Joseph Planta
  Joseph Planta
  Sir Joseph Planta GCH was a British diplomat and politician of Swiss descent. He was the MP for Hastings, England.Joseph Planta was the son of another Joseph Planta , who moved from Switzerland to England and who became the Principal Librarian of the British Museum in London...
  
   (1787–1847), English politician
• Joe the Plumber
  Joe the Plumber
  Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher , is a conservative activist, author, and commentator. A resident of Holland, Ohio, United States, he gained significant attention during the 2008 U.S. presidential election after he was videotaped questioning then-Democratic candidate Barack Obama about his small...
  
  , figure mentioned at least 20 times during the 2008 US presidential debates
• Joseph Ratzinger, given name of Pope Benedict XVI
• Joe Root
  Joe Root (Pennsylvania)
  Joseph "Joe" Root was a resident who was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA. He was considered to be one of America's earliest naturalists. Root's unique talents allowed him to find a virtual buffet on Presque Isle without having to resort to modern day conveniences...
  
  , a 19th century American naturalist from Erie
  Erie, Pennsylvania
  Erie is a city located in northwestern Pennsylvania in the United States. Named for the lake and the Native American tribe that resided along its southern shore, Erie is the state's fourth-largest city , with a population of 102,000...
  
  , Pennsylvania
  Pennsylvania
  The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
  
  
• Joe Satriani
  Joe Satriani
  Joseph "Joe" Satriani is an American instrumental rock guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, with multiple Grammy Award nominations...
  
  , instrumental rock guitarist
• Joseph Simmons
  Joseph Simmons
  Joseph Ward Simmons , known by the stage name Rev. Run or DJ Run, is one of the founding members of the influential hip hop group Run–D.M.C., and a practicing minister, known as Reverend Run. Simmons was born in Hollis, Queens, New York. He is the younger brother of Daniel "Danny" Simmons, Jr...
  
  , aka DJ Run, of rap group Run-DMC
• Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement
  Latter Day Saint movement
  The Latter Day Saint movement is a group of independent churches tracing their origin to a Christian primitivist movement founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. in the late 1820s. Collectively, these churches have over 14 million members...
  
  
• Joseph Stalin
  Joseph Stalin
  Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...
  
  , General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953
• Joe Toye
  Joe Toye
  -External links:*...
  
  , American World War II veteran
• József Vida
  József Vida
  József Vida is a retired male hammer thrower from Hungary, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. He set his personal best on July 4, 1999 in Tapolca....
  
   (born 1963), Hungarian hammer thrower
• Joseph Vijay
  Joseph Vijay
  Vijay is an Indian film actor and playback singer, who is based in the cinema of Tamil Nadu. He is the son of film producer and director S. A. Chandrasekhar. After performing uncredited roles as a child actor in films produced by his father, he made his debut in a lead role in the 1992 film...
  
  , Tamil actor
• Joseph Wapasha, Mdewakanton Sioux chief
• Joss Whedon
  Joss Whedon
  Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon is an American screenwriter, executive producer, director, comic book writer, occasional composer and actor, founder of Mutant Enemy Productions and co-creator of Bellwether Pictures...
  
  , American Screenwriter, director and executive producer
• Joseph Wiseman
  Joseph Wiseman
  Joseph Wiseman was a Canadian theater and film actor, best known for starring as the titular antagonist of the first James Bond film, Dr. No, his role as Manny Weisbord on Crime Story, and his career on Broadway...
  
   (1918–2009), Canadian actor
• Yosef Zaritsky (1891–1985), Israeli painter
• Josef Zeilbauer
  Sepp Zeilbauer
  Josef "Sepp" Zeilbauer is a retired decathlete from Austria. He set his personal best in the event on 16 May 1976 at a meet in Götzis.-Achievements:-References:**...
  
  , Austrian decathlete
• Josephus
  Josephus
  Titus Flavius Josephus , also called Joseph ben Matityahu , was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the First Jewish–Roman War, which resulted in the Destruction of...
  
   (37 – c. 100 AD), aka Yosef Ben Matityahu, was a first-century Jewish historian
  Historian
  A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
  
   of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD.