List of Famous people named Joseph

Sir Joseph Barcroft was a British physiologist best known for his studies of the oxygenation of blood.

Count Ferdinand Joseph Maria of Salern was an illegitimate son of Prince Ferdinand Maria Innocenz of Bavaria (1699-1738) and Countess Marie Adelheid Fortunata of Spaur. He was thus a nephew of Emperor Charles VII and his brothers Clemens Augustus, elector and archbishop of Cologne, and Cardinal Johann Theodore, bishop of Freising, Regensburg and Liège.

Josef Hellmesberger Sr. was an Austrian violinist, conductor, and composer.

Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen, known as Sir Joseph Duveen, Bt., between 1927 and 1933, was a controversial British art dealer, considered one of the most influential art dealers of all time.

Joseph Michael Valachi was an American gangster in the Genovese crime family who is notable as the first member of the Italian-American Mafia to, in 1963, acknowledge its existence publicly. He is credited with the popularization of the term cosa nostra.

Joseph "Jo Jo" Hoo Kim was a Jamaican reggae record producer best known for his productions in the 1970s at his Channel One Studios.

Joseph Stein was an American playwright best known for writing the books for such musicals as Fiddler on the Roof and Zorba.