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Joe Duplantier
Joe Duplantier (Joseph Andrew Duplantier, born 1976) is the French vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and principal songwriter of Gojira, ex-Cavalera Conspiracy bassist, Silver Cord Studio owner, and 2025 Grammy winner for Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!).
Joe Duttine
Joe Duttine (born 1970) is an English actor, nephew of John Duttine, trained at Drama Centre London; Coronation Street's Tim Metcalfe since 2013, previously DS Max Carr in 2010 and Steve Turner in Pie in the Sky.
Joé Dwèt Filé
Joé Dwèt Filé is the stage name of Joé Gilles, a French singer of Haitian origin who performs kompa and R&B in French and Haitian Creole.
Joe E. Brown
Joe E. Brown (Joseph Evans Brown, 1891 or 1892–1973), American actor and comedian of the 1930s–40s; circus-to-Broadway performer, star of Some Like It Hot's Osgood Fielding III, distinct from singer Joe Brown.
Joe Earl
Joe Earl (Athol John Earl), New Zealand rower born 1952, won Olympic gold in the men's eight at Munich 1972 and bronze at Montreal 1976.
Joe Elliott
Joe Elliott (Joseph Thomas Elliott, born 1959, Sheffield) is the English lead vocalist and co-founder of Def Leppard since 1977, frontman of Pyromania and Hysteria, Down 'n' Outz leader, and Rock Hall 2019 inductee.
Joe English (musician)
Joe English (born 1949, Rochester, New York) is an American drummer who played in Paul McCartney and Wings 1975-1977, then Sea Level, and later led the Christian rock Joe English Band.
Joe Estevez
Joe Estevez (born 1946, Dayton, Ohio) is an American character actor, brother of Martin Sheen. Uncredited Willard voice and stand-in in Apocalypse Now; hundreds of credits in independent and cult film, and a regular on On Cinema.
Joe Eszterhas
Joe Eszterhas (József Antal Eszterhás), born 1944 in Hungary and raised in Cleveland, is a Hungarian-American screenwriter, journalist, and author who wrote Flashdance, Basic Instinct, and Showgirls.
Joe Exotic
Joe Exotic (Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage, aka Joseph Schreibvogel) is the Oklahoma roadside zoo operator of Tiger King fame, convicted in 2019 of a murder-for-hire plot against Carole Baskin and wildlife crimes, serving a 21-year federal sentence.
Joe Fagan (politician)
Joe Fagan (born 1987) is a Scottish Labour MSP for the South Scotland region, elected 7 May 2026, former Leader of South Lanarkshire Council, and 2026 Scottish Labour leadership candidate against Michael Marra.
Joe Fargis
Joe Fargis (Joseph Halpin Fargis IV, born 1948), American show jumper; double 1984 Olympic jumping gold on Touch of Class, 1988 team silver on Mill Pearl, Middleburg Virginia trainer.
Joe Farman
Joe Farman was a British geophysicist at the British Antarctic Survey who, with Brian Gardiner and Jon Shanklin, reported the Antarctic ozone hole in 1985, leading to the Montreal Protocol.
Joe Fath
Joe Fath is a growth-stage investor who joined Eclipse Ventures in 2025 as Partner and Head of Growth after more than 20 years at T. Rowe Price.
Joe Fitzgibbon
Joe Fitzgibbon is an American Democratic member of the Washington House of Representatives representing the 34th Legislative District, elected in 2010 and serving as House Majority Leader since 2022.
Joe Flacco
Joe Flacco (born 1985), NFL quarterback; drafted 18th overall by Baltimore in 2008, Super Bowl XLVII MVP with 11 TDs and 0 INTs in that postseason, 2023 Comeback Player of the Year, later Bengals, Browns, Colts, Jets, Broncos.
Joe Flaherty
Joe Flaherty (Joseph O'Flaherty, 1941–2024), American actor, writer, and comedian; founding SCTV cast member (Guy Caballero, Count Floyd), two-time Emmy-winning writer, Harold Weir on Freaks and Geeks, heckler in Happy Gilmore.
Joe Flanigan
Joe Flanigan (born 1967, Los Angeles) is an American actor and writer, best known as Lt. Colonel John Sheppard on all five seasons of Stargate Atlantis (2004–2009), for which he also wrote two episodes; formerly a White House advance man and magazine writer.
Joe Floyd
Joe Floyd is a General Partner at Emergence Capital Partners, a San Mateo venture firm focused on enterprise cloud, known for investments in SalesLoft, project44, and Together.ai.
Joe Flynn (American actor)
Joe Flynn (1924–1974), American comic character actor from Youngstown, Ohio; played Captain Binghamton on McHale's Navy (1962–1966) and Disney's Dean Higgins; voiced Mr. Snoops in The Rescuers.
Joe Fortenberry
Joe Fortenberry (1911–1993), Texas-born 6'8" center, captained the USA team that won the first Olympic basketball gold at Berlin 1936, scoring 8 in the 19–8 final, and is credited with the first dunk.
Joe Fournier
Joe Fournier (Jocelyn Faisal Jules Fournier), British nightclub owner and light-heavyweight boxer, 'The Billionaire'. 9-0 (9 KOs) pro record, doping ban, WBA International title removed from record, exhibition losses to David Haye and an overturned elbow KO by KSI in 2023.
Joe Francis
Joe Francis, born Joseph R. Francis, is an American media entrepreneur who founded the Girls Gone Wild franchise and built it into a business with reported revenue near $100 million; he moved to Mexico in 2015.
Joe Frank Harris
Joe Frank Harris, born in 1936, is an American Democratic politician who served as the 78th governor of Georgia from 1983 to 1991, known for the Quality Basic Education Act and Atlanta's 1996 Olympics bid.
Joe Frazier
Joe Frazier (1944-2011), "Smokin' Joe", American heavyweight boxer, undisputed champion 1970-73, Tokyo 1964 Olympic gold medalist, first man to beat Muhammad Ali (1971), record 32-4-1, lost Thrilla in Manila 1975.
Joe Frazier vs. George Foreman
Joe Frazier vs. George Foreman, the Sunshine Showdown of January 22, 1973 in Kingston, Jamaica: undefeated champion Frazier (29-0) lost the WBA, WBC and Ring heavyweight titles when 37-0 challenger Foreman knocked him down six times for a second-round TKO.
Joe Freeman
Joe Freeman (born 2006, London) is a British actor, son of Martin Freeman and Amanda Abbington, who plays Luke Ellis as series lead in MGM+'s The Institute (2025), after a 2024 Doctors episode.
Joe Gacy
Joe Gacy is the ring name of Joseph Sawyer (born 1987), an American wrestler, three-time CZW World Heavyweight Champion, former WWE NXT star and Wyatt Sicks member, now GCW World Champion.
Joe Galibardy
Joe Galibardy (Joseph Deville Thomas Galibardy, 1915-2011), Indian field hockey left half, BNR Railways; won 1936 Berlin Olympic gold with British India, played all five matches in the 8-1 final win over Germany, last surviving member of either 1936 finalist team, emigrated to Walthamstow, England in 1956.
Joe Gallo
Joe "Crazy Joe" Gallo (1929-1972), Brooklyn-born Profaci/Colombo family mobster who kidnapped his own bosses in the 1961 Gallo-Profaci war, served about a decade for extortion, became a celebrity gangster, and was shot dead at Umberto's Clam House on his 43rd birthday.