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Josef Penninger
Josef M. Penninger, born 1964 in Austria, is an immunologist known for the RANK/RANKL system and ACE2 research, and Scientific Director of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research since 2023.
Josef Pieper
Josef Pieper (1904–1997) was a German Catholic philosopher who taught for fifty years at Münster and argued that culture depends on leisure and divine worship.
Josef Polig
Josef Polig, Italian alpine skier born 1968 in Vipiteno (Sterzing), won surprise gold in the combined at the 1992 Albertville Olympics; World Cup racer 1988–95, nicknamed Joe-Speck, later a food-products distributor.
Josef Prusa
Josef Prusa, born 1990, is a Czech entrepreneur who founded Prusa Research, a Prague-based 3D printer maker, in 2012, selling over 500,000 printers with no outside investment.
Josef Říman
Josef Říman (1925–2019) was a Czech biochemist, molecular biologist, and geneticist, co-discoverer of reverse transcriptase and president of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences until 1989.
Josef S Smolen
Josef S. Smolen is an Austrian rheumatologist who led rheumatology at the Medical University of Vienna from 1995 to 2018 and created the treat-to-target strategy.
Josef Schlecht
Josef Schlecht, also written Joseph Schlecht, was a German Catholic priest and historian of German Humanism and the Reformation era who twice directed the Görres-Gesellschaft's Roman Institute.
Josef Schnitzer
Josef Schnitzer, formally Joseph Schnitzer (1859–1939), was a German Catholic priest and church historian at the University of Munich, the only German theologian suspended for Modernism under Pius X.
Josef Singer
Josef Singer (יוסף זינגר; 1923–2009) was an Israeli aeronautical engineer known for research on the buckling of thin-walled structures and president of the Technion from 1982 to 1986.
Josef Škvorecký
Josef Škvorecký (1924–2012), Czech-Canadian novelist, translator, and co-founder of Toronto exile press '68 Publishers; author of The Cowards, The Miracle Game, and The Engineer of Human Souls.
Josef Slavík
Josef Slavík (1806–1833) was a Czech violin virtuoso and composer, nicknamed the "Czech Paganini", for whom Schubert wrote his Fantasie in C and whom Chopin predicted would surpass Paganini.
Josef Sommer
Josef Sommer (Maximilian Josef Sommer, born 1934, Greifswald, Germany) is a German-American retired stage, film, and television actor, an Obie winner known for Witness, Dirty Harry, Close Encounters, Silkwood, and portraying Ford, FDR, and Joseph Kennedy on TV.
Josef Steinberger
Josef Steinberger is a computer scientist in natural language processing at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, working on text summarization, sentiment analysis, and coreference resolution.
Josef Stoer
Josef Stoer, born in 1934, is a German mathematician who held the applied mathematics chair at the University of Würzburg and coauthored the standard textbook Introduction to Numerical Analysis.
Josef Straßberger
Josef Straßberger (1894–1950), German heavyweight weightlifter of TSV 1860 München; Olympic gold Amsterdam 1928 (372.5 kg) and bronze Los Angeles 1932, world champion 1920, 13 German titles.
Josef Sudek
Josef Sudek (1896–1976) was a Czech photographer known as the "Poet of Prague," famous for images of Prague, still lifes, and The Windows of My Studio series.
Josef Suk
Josef Suk (1874–1935) was a Czech composer, violinist, and teacher, the pupil and son-in-law of Antonín Dvořák, known for the Asrael Symphony and Serenade for Strings.
Josef Svatopluk Machar
Josef Svatopluk Machar (1864–1942) was a Czech poet, publicist, and politician, the leading representative of Czech poetic realism, co-author of the 1895 Česká moderna manifesto, and later inspector general of the Czechoslovak army.
Josef Terboven
Josef Terboven (1898–1945), German Nazi official and Gauleiter of Essen, was Hitler's Reichskommissar of occupied Norway 1940–1945, ruling with dictatorial powers above Quisling and killing himself at Skaugum on 8 May 1945.
Josef Trousil
Josef Trousil (born 2 February 1935, Městečko) is a Czech former sprinter who competed for Czechoslovakia at the 1956, 1960, and 1964 Olympics in the 200 m, 400 m, and 4×400 m relay; eight-time national 400 m champion.
Josef von Sternberg
Josef von Sternberg (Jonas Sternberg, 1894-1969), Austrian-born American film director of The Salvation Hunters, Underworld, and seven Marlene Dietrich films from The Blue Angel (1930) to The Devil Is a Woman (1935), ending with The Saga of Anatahan (1953).
Josef Wilhelm
Josef Wilhelm (1892-1956) was a Swiss artistic gymnast from Chur who won pommel horse gold (21.230) and team bronze at the 1924 Paris Olympics, leading a Swiss sweep of the pommel horse podium.
Josef Wilhelm Karl Kleutgen
Josef Wilhelm Karl Kleutgen (1811–1883) was a German Jesuit theologian and philosopher, the leading architect of the neo-Scholastic revival and a collaborator on Vatican I's Dei Filius.
Josefa Idem Guerrini
Josefa Idem Guerrini, born 1964 in Goch, West Germany, is an Italian sprint canoeist, first woman at eight Olympics, five Olympic medals including K1 500 m gold at Sydney 2000, and later an Italian senator and minister.
Josefa Iloilo
Ratu Josefa Iloilo was a Fijian high chief, Tui Vuda, and politician who served as President of Fiji from 2000 to 2009, abrogating the constitution in 2009.
Josefa Joaquina Sánchez Bastidas power station
The Josefa Joaquina Sánchez Bastidas power station, also known as Planta Tacoa or the Ricardo Zuloaga plant, is a Venezuelan thermal power plant at Catia La Mar near Caracas.
Josefa Llanes Escoda
Josefa Llanes Escoda was a social worker who founded the Girl Scouts of the Philippines in 1940, and aided women's rights and prisoners during World War II.
Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez
Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, known as La Corregidora, was a patriot of New Spain whose warning of the betrayed 1810 Querétaro conspiracy triggered Mexico's War of Independence.
Josefin Lillhage
Josefin Lillhage (Anna Josefin Lillhage, later Östblom, born 1980), Swedish freestyle swimmer; four Olympics 1996–2008, Sydney 2000 relay bronze, short course 4x200 m freestyle world record 7:51.70 in 1999, 43 international medals, retired 2010.
Josefina Plá
Josefina Plá was a Spanish-born poet, playwright, ceramicist, and historian who moved to Paraguay in the 1920s, led the Generación del 40, and pioneered feminist writing there.