List of Famous people named Joseph
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For twenty years he served as director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, succeeding his father, William Jackson Hooker, and was awarded the highest honours of British science.
Joseph Goff
Prince Joseph Friedrich Ernst I, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Prince Joseph Ernst Friedrich Karl Anton Meinrad of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was the fifth Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. He ruled from 1715 to 1769.
Joseph Gabbett
Joseph Fesch
Joseph Fesch, Prince of France was a French cardinal and diplomat, Prince of France and a member of the Imperial House of the First French Empire, Peer of France, Roman Prince, and the half-uncle of Napoleon Bonaparte. He was also one of the most famous art collectors of his period, remembered for having established the Musée Fesch in Ajaccio, which remains one of the most important Napoleonic collections of art.
Joseph Benda
Josef Benda, also Joseph Benda, was a Bohemian violinist and composer active in Germany.
Joseph Francis, 7th Prince of Lobkowicz
Joseph Franz Maximilian, 7th Prince of Lobkowitz was an aristocrat of Bohemia, from the House of Lobkowicz. He is known particularly for his interest in music and as a patron of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Joseph Frederick Laycock
Brigadier-General Sir Joseph Frederick Laycock, sometimes known as Joe Laycock, was a British Army officer and Olympic sailor. He was at one time a Deputy Lieutenant, Lord Lieutenant and, in 1906, High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire.
Joseph Ruggles Wilson
Joseph Ruggles Wilson Sr. was a prominent Presbyterian theologian and father of President Woodrow Wilson, Nashville Banner editor Joseph Ruggles Wilson Jr., and Anne E. Wilson Howe. In 1861, as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Augusta, Georgia, he organized the General Assembly of the newly formed the Presbyterian Church in the United States, known as the Southern Presbyterian Church, and served as its clerk for thirty-seven years.