List of Famous people named Josef

Josef Duchač is a German politician (CDU).

Joseph Bürckel was a Nazi Germany politician and a member of the German parliament. He was an early member of the Nazi Party and was influential in the rise of the National Socialist movement. He played a central role in the German acquisition of the Saarland and Austria. He held the posts of Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter in both Gau Westmark and Reichsgau Vienna.

Josef Moser is an Austrian lawyer and politician. He served as the Minister of Justice of Austria from 18. December 2017 until 3. June 2019.

Josef Friedrich Schmidt was a German board game inventor.

Josef Krainer junior was an Austrian politician and Governor of Styria from 1981 to 1996. He was the son of Governor Josef Krainer senior and a member of the Austrian People's Party.

Josef Pühringer is a former Austrian politician.

Josef Michael Hartinger was a German lawyer who worked for the Bavarian State authorities in the latter years of the Weimar Republic when the Nazis came to power. Tasked with investigating some unnatural deaths at the Dachau concentration camp near Munich, Hartinger together with his medical examiner colleague, Moritz Flamm, discovered the SS policy of summary executions and faked suicides at the camp. At great risk to his own safety, Hartinger issued an indictment of the camp authorities, which was ultimately betrayed and suppressed.

Josef Feistmantl was an Austrian luger who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. He competed at three Olympic Games.

Josef Karl Rädler (1844–1917) was a porcelain painter from Austria, described as “...one of the most exciting self-taught artists to be discovered in recent years.”. Rather than from his work on porcelain, the main recognition he has received as an artist is for roughly 400 watercolour paintings he produced whilst an in-patient at asylums in Austria from 1897 onwards, that were only discovered roughly 50 years after his death.

Josef Skupa was a Czech puppeteer.