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Joe Tippett
Joe Tippett (born 1982) is an American actor who originated Earl in Waitress at A.R.T. and on Broadway, played Coach Strickland in Rise and John Ross in Mare of Easttown, and is married to Sara Bareilles.
Joe Torre
Joe Torre, born Joseph Paul Torre in 1940, is an American former baseball player, manager, and executive who won four World Series titles with the Yankees.
Joe Tracini
Joe Tracini (born 1988, London), son of Joe Pasquale, is an English actor, presenter, and writer known for Dennis Savage in Hollyoaks, DK in Coming of Age, The Dengineers, and his BPD advocacy and documentary Me and the Voice in My Head.
Joe Trohman
Joe Trohman (born 1984) is an American guitarist, co-founder and lead guitarist of Fall Out Boy, also of The Damned Things, author of the 2022 memoir None of This Rocks.
Joe Turkel
Joe Turkel (1927 to 2022), born Joseph Turkel, was an American character actor known for Lloyd in Kubrick's The Shining and Dr. Eldon Tyrell in Blade Runner.
Joe Urla
Joe Urla (Joseph Urla), American actor born 1958, in Pontiac, Michigan; known for Dugan on Seinfeld, roles in The Bodyguard, Sleepers, Deep Impact, The Wire, and a 1986 Theatre World Award.
Joe V. Selby
Joe V. Selby is an American family physician and clinical epidemiologist, best known as the first executive director of PCORI and for his diabetes outcomes research at Kaiser Permanente.
Joe Veras
Joe Veras (José María Veras Batista, born 1964) is a Dominican bachata singer from Cotuí whose hit "Inténtalo Tú" won a 2004 Billboard Latin Music Award.
Joe Verdeur
Joe Verdeur (Joseph Thomas Verdeur, 1926-1991), American swimmer, 1948 Olympic gold medalist in the 200 m breaststroke (2:39.3 Olympic record), holder of 19 world records in breaststroke and butterfly, La Salle NCAA champion.
Joe Verghese
Joe Verghese is an American neurologist, chair of neurology at Stony Brook University since 2024, known for gait studies predicting dementia and defining Motoric Cognitive Risk syndrome.
Joe Versus the Volcano
Joe Versus the Volcano is a 1990 romantic-comedy adventure, John Patrick Shanley's directorial debut, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan (in three roles) as a dying man hired to jump into a volcano on Waponi Woo.
Joe Vinen
Joe Vinen (William Frank Vinen, 1930–2022) was a British low-temperature physicist who gave the first direct demonstration that superfluid circulation is quantized and created the field of quantum turbulence.
Joe Vitale (New Jersey politician)
Joe Vitale, full name Joseph F. Vitale, is an American Democratic politician who has represented New Jersey's 19th district in the State Senate since 1998, chairing the Health Committee.
Joe Viterelli
Joe Viterelli (1937–2004), American character actor from the Bronx who began acting in his 50s; played Jelly in Analyze This and Analyze That and gangster roles in over 40 films.
Joe vs. Carole
Joe vs. Carole is a 2022 Peacock eight-episode limited drama, created by Etan Frankel from the Wondery podcast Joe Exotic: Tiger King, starring Kate McKinnon as Carole Baskin and John Cameron Mitchell as Joe Exotic, filmed in Queensland.
Joe W. Gray
Joe W. Gray is an American physicist and cancer researcher, Professor Emeritus at Oregon Health & Science University, known for developing tools to analyze tumor genomes and heterogeneity.
Joe W. Johnson
Joseph William Johnson, known as Joe W. Johnson, was an American civil engineer and professor of hydraulics at UC Berkeley who helped found coastal engineering as a discipline.
Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh (Joseph Fidler Walsh, born 1947, Wichita, Kansas) is an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter of James Gang, Barnstorm, and Eagles fame. Known for Funk #49, Rocky Mountain Way, Life's Been Good, and Hotel California; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, ham radio operator WB6ACU.
Joe Walsh (Illinois politician)
Joe Walsh (born 1961), Illinois Republican, one-term U.S. representative from the 8th district (2011–2013), Tea Party figure who beat Melissa Bean by 291 votes in 2010, lost to Tammy Duckworth in 2012, later hosted radio and challenged Trump in 2020.
Joe Webb
Joe Webb (Joseph Webb Jr., born 1986, Birmingham, Alabama) is a former NFL quarterback-wide receiver-special teams player; 2010 sixth-round Vikings pick, UAB alum, 104 games, five teams, Super Bowl 50, now a Birmingham high school head coach.
Joe Weider
Joe Weider (1920–2013), Canadian-born publisher and promoter, founded Your Physique and Muscle & Fitness, co-founded the IFBB with brother Ben, created the Mr. Olympia (1965) and Ms. Olympia contests, and brought Arnold Schwarzenegger to America.
Joe West (umpire)
Joe West, "Cowboy Joe," MLB umpire 1976–2021 who worked a record 5,460 regular-season games, breaking Bill Klem's mark; also a country singer with 196 ejections.
Joe Wicks (coach)
Joe Wicks, The Body Coach, British fitness coach, presenter and author born in Epsom; Lean in 15 author, PE with Joe lockdown livestreams with 80 million views, MBE, and The Body Coach app backed by ITV.
Joe Wilkinson
Joe Wilkinson (born 1975) is an English deadpan comedian, actor, and writer, of Two Episodes Of MASH, Him & Her's Dan, After Life's Postman Pat, and a fixture of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.
Joe Willock
Joe Willock (Joseph Willock, born 1999) is an English midfielder for Newcastle United, formerly Arsenal. Loan star of 2021 with 8 goals in 14 Premier League games, then a permanent six-year deal.
Joe Wilson
Joe Wilson, born Addison Graves Wilson in 1947, is a Republican U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 2nd congressional district since 2001, after 17 years in the State Senate.
Joe Worrall (footballer)
Joe Worrall (Joseph Adrian Worrall, born 1997, Nottingham) is an English centre-back at Wrexham, formerly Nottingham Forest captain (226 apps, 2022 promotion), Rangers, Beşiktaş, and Burnley; three England U21 caps.
Joe Wright
Joe Wright (born 1972, London), English director of Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, Anna Karenina, Darkest Hour; BAFTA Carl Foreman winner, long-take style, now directs TV including Mussolini: Son of the Century.
Joe Yabuki (矢吹丈)
Joe Yabuki (矢吹丈) is the protagonist of Ashita no Joe (Tomorrow's Joe), the 1968–1973 boxing manga by Asao Takamori (Ikki Kajiwara) and Tetsuya Chiba: a slum orphan trained by Danpei Tange, rival of Rikiishi, who burns out to white ash against Jose Mendoza.
Joe Zawinul
Joe Zawinul (Josef Erich Zawinul, 1932–2007), Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer; co-founder of Weather Report with Wayne Shorter; wrote "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy", "In a Silent Way", and "Birdland"; pioneered electric piano and synthesizer in jazz.