List of Famous people named Joseph

Joseph Townsend (1704–1763) of Honington, Warwickshire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1740 and 1754.

Josaeph Edra Ukpo was Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calabar. He had previously been the first Nigerian-born and black African bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogoja, which is a suffragan diocese of the archdiocese of Calabar.

Joseph Long trained at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama and has gone to have a long career as an actor. His performing credits include three West End Shows, theatre tours and in repertory and community theatre, most recently in 2019 playing the lead role as Dr Iannis in Captain Corelli’s Mandolin on tour and in London at the Harold Pinter Theatre. However, most of his work has been performing on camera in countless TV and Film productions. Most recent Television shows include Holby City, Casualty, Peaky Blinders, Spooks, Poirot, Silent Witness, Zen, Tyrant, Pennyworth. Three series of Ashes to Ashes as Luigi, and twice appeared in Doctor Who, firstly as Rocco Colosanto and secondly, the Pope. In recent films he has worked on Dracula Untold, Redemption, American Assassin, Murder on the Orient Express, We Die Young and the yet to be released, Waiting for the Barbarians with Mark Rylance.