List of Famous people named Joseph

Joseph Gaertner was a German botanist, best known for his work on seeds, De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1788-1792).

Rear Admiral Joseph Bingham was a Royal Navy officer who was appointed Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station but never took up the post.

Niijima Jō , better known by his English name Joseph Hardy Neesima, was a Japanese Protestant missionary and educator of the Meiji era who founded Doshisha English School.

Joseph Desha was a U.S. Representative and the ninth governor of the U.S. state of Kentucky. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Desha's Huguenot ancestors fled from France to Pennsylvania, where Desha was born. Eventually, Desha's family settled near present-day Gallatin, Tennessee, where they were involved in many skirmishes with the Indians. Two of Desha's brothers were killed in these encounters, motivating him to volunteer for "Mad" Anthony Wayne's campaign against the Indians during the Northwest Indian War. Having by then resettled in Mason County, Kentucky, Desha parlayed his military record into several terms in the state legislature.

Joseph Isidore Samson was a 19th-century French actor and playwright.

Joseph Pevney was an American film and television director.

Joseph Bernstein is a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician working at Tel Aviv University. He works in algebraic geometry, representation theory, and number theory.

Joseph Ponthus was a French writer. He was best known for writing the book À la ligne, which received the Grand prix RTL-Lire and the Prix Eugène-Dabit du roman populiste.