List of Famous people named Jozsef

József baron Eötvös de Vásárosnamény was a Hungarian writer and statesman, the son of Ignác baron Eötvös de Vásárosnamény and Anna von Lilien, who stemmed from an Erbsälzer family of Werl in Germany. Eötvös name is sometimes anglicised as Joseph von Eotvos.

József Pálinkás is a Hungarian atomic physicist and politician, who served as Minister of Education between 2001 and 2002. He was the President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 2008 to 2014.

József Mindszenty [jo:ʒɛf mindsɛnti] was the Prince Primate, Archbishop of Esztergom, cardinal, and leader of the Catholic Church in Hungary from 2 October 1945 to 18 December 1973. According to Encyclopædia Britannica, for five decades "he personified uncompromising opposition to fascism and communism in Hungary". During World War II, he was imprisoned by the pro-Nazi Arrow Cross Party. After the war, he opposed communism and the communist persecution in his country. As a result, he was tortured and given a life sentence in a 1949 show trial that generated worldwide condemnation, including a United Nations resolution. After eight years in prison, he was freed in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and granted political asylum by the United States embassy in Budapest. Mindszenty lived there for the next fifteen years. He was finally allowed to leave the country in 1971. He died in exile in 1975 in Vienna, Austria.

József Tóth is a Hungarian politician, who has been the mayor of Angyalföld since 1994. He was also a member of the National Assembly (MP) for Angyalföld from 2002 to 2014. He is a member of the Hungarian Socialist Party.

József Tempfli was a Romanian Roman Catholic bishop. He was born into an ethnic Hungarian family. Ordained to the priesthood in 1962, Tempfli served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oradea Mare from 1990 until 2008.