List of Famous people named Joseph

Joseph Heller was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the 1961 novel Catch-22, a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice.

Joseph Brevard Kershaw was a prominent South Carolina planter and slaveholder. He was also a lawyer, judge, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War.

Joseph Paul Gaimard was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.

Joseph "Joe" Lane was an American politician and soldier. He was a state legislator representing Evansville, Indiana, and then served in the Mexican–American War, becoming a general. President James K. Polk appointed Lane as the first Governor of Oregon Territory. When Oregon was admitted as a state in 1859, Lane was elected one of Oregon's first two U.S. Senators.

Joseph Hiester was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as the Democratic-Republican fifth Governor of Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1823. He was a member of the Hiester family political dynasty.

Joseph Vance was a Whig politician from Ohio, USA. He was the 13th Governor of Ohio and the first Whig to hold the position.

Joseph Sadoc Alemany y Conill, O.P. was a Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop and missionary. He served as the first Bishop of Monterey from 1850 until 1853, and as the first Archbishop of San Francisco from 1853 until 1884.

Joseph Story DD was an 18th-century Anglican bishop in Ireland.