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Josep Maria Bartomeu

Josep Maria Bartomeu i Floreta (born 1963), Spanish businessman and FC Barcelona president 2014-2020, elected in 2015; oversaw the 2015 treble and Neymar's 222 million euro sale, resigned in 2020 before a censure vote, and later faced the Negreira case while being acquitted in the Neymar transfer case.

Josep Penuelas

Josep Peñuelas, born 1958 in Vic, is a Spanish ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist, a CSIC Research Professor at CREAF known for work on nitrogen-phosphorus imbalance and the carbon sink.

Josep Pla

Josep Pla (1897–1981) was a Catalan writer and journalist, a central figure of 20th-century Catalan literature whose diary El quadern gris is among the most esteemed works of autobiography in Catalan.

Josep Puigmarti

Josep Puigmartí-Luis is a Spanish chemist and ICREA Research Professor who leads the ChemInFlow group at the University of Barcelona, working on flow chemistry and microfluidics.

Josep Rizo

Josep Rizo, officially Jose Rizo-Rey, is a Spanish-born structural biologist and biophysicist, born in Barcelona in 1959, who is a professor at UT Southwestern in Dallas known for research on the protein machinery of neurotransmitter release.

Josep Tabernero

Josep Tabernero is a Spanish medical oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal cancers, who heads medical oncology at Vall d'Hebron University Hospital and directs the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology in Barcelona.

Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport

Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport, also known as El Prat Airport, is Barcelona's main airport, the second largest in Spain, with code BCN and about 55 million passengers.

Josep-Lluís Serrano Pentinat

Josep-Lluís Serrano Pentinat, also known as Josep Serrano Pentinat, is a Spanish Catholic prelate who has been bishop of Urgell and co-prince of Andorra since 2025.

Joseph

Joseph, from Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף, "he will add"), is a biblical masculine given name carried via Greek Ioseph and Latin Josephus. Bearers include the patriarch son of Jacob and the husband of Mary; forms include Josef, José, Giuseppe, Yusuf; US rank #29 in 2025.

Joseph (Patriarch of Moscow)

Joseph (Иосиф), a former abbot of the Simonov Monastery, was Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' from 1642 to 1652, overseeing record book printing and the 1649 Ulozhenie's limits on church courts.

Joseph (יוֹסֵף) (Genesis)

Joseph (Hebrew יוֹסֵף), also called Joseph the Dreamer, is a biblical figure, a son of Jacob sold by his brothers into slavery who rose to power in Egypt.

Joseph (ജോസഫ്) (2018 film)

Joseph (ജോസഫ്) is a 2018 Malayalam drama-thriller directed by M. Padmakumar, written by policeman Shahi Kabir, starring Joju George as a retired Kerala cop investigating his ex-wife's death; it won Kerala State and Filmfare awards.

Joseph A. Baur

Joseph A. Baur is a physiologist and Professor of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania who studies the molecular mechanisms of aging, NAD metabolism, and mTOR signaling.

Joseph A. Beavo

Joseph A. Beavo Jr. is an American pharmacologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, known for defining the superfamily of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases, enzymes that degrade cAMP and cGMP.

Joseph A. Bellanti

Joseph A. Bellanti is an American immunologist, professor emeritus of pediatrics and microbiology-immunology at Georgetown University, known for work on mucosal antibody responses and primary immunodeficiencies.

Joseph A. Berry

Joseph A. Berry is an American plant physiologist and earth scientist, Senior Staff Scientist Emeritus at the Carnegie Institution, known for work on photosynthesis and gas exchange.

Joseph A. Burns

Joseph A. Burns (1941–2025) was an American planetary scientist and celestial mechanician at Cornell University, known for work on radiation forces, planetary rings, and the Cassini imaging team.

Joseph A. Gogos

Joseph A. Gogos is a physician-scientist and professor at Columbia University who studies the molecular genetics and neural circuit mechanisms of schizophrenia and 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, a chromosomal microdeletion carrying high risk of the disorder.

Joseph A. Hill

Joseph A. Hill is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for work on cardiac remodeling, fibrosis, and autophagy.

Joseph A. Kovacs

Joseph A. Kovacs is an American physician-scientist at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, known for work on Pneumocystis pneumonia and HIV immune-based therapy.

Joseph A. Laroski, Jr.

Joseph A. Laroski, Jr., born in 1971, is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of International Trade since 2024, appointed by President Biden.

Joseph A. Pask

Joseph A. Pask (1913–2003) was an American ceramic engineer and emeritus professor at UC Berkeley who built its ceramic engineering program and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.

Joseph A. Pechman

Joseph A. Pechman (1918–1989) was an American economist at the Brookings Institution, a leading tax policy scholar who directed its Economic Studies program and influenced the Tax Reform Act of 1986.

Joseph A. Piccirilli

Joseph A. Piccirilli (born 1960) is an American chemical biologist at the University of Chicago known for showing that RNA enzymes use metal ions in catalysis.

Joseph A. Ryan

Joseph A. Ryan is a US Army four-star general, West Point class of 1991 Infantry officer, former 25th Infantry Division commander and Army G-3/5/7, now commanding US Army Western Hemisphere Command at Fort Bragg since December 2025.

Joseph A. Shaw

Joseph A. Shaw is an American optical remote sensing scientist who won the 1998 PECASE award and directs the Optical Technology Center at Montana State University.

Joseph A. Sparano

Joseph A. Sparano is an American medical oncologist who has led hematology and medical oncology at Mount Sinai since 2021 and led the TAILORx breast cancer trial.

Joseph A. Stroscio

Joseph A. Stroscio, also published as J. A. Stroscio, is an American physicist and NIST Fellow in Maryland known for scanning tunneling microscopy of graphene and 2D quantum materials.

Joseph A. Vita

Joseph A. Vita (1956–2014) was an American cardiologist and vascular biology researcher at Boston University who showed endothelial dysfunction predicts cardiovascular events, and was the inaugural editor-in-chief of JAHA.

Joseph A. Walker

Joseph A. Walker, full name Joseph Albert Walker (1921–1966), was an American NASA research pilot who twice flew the X-15 above 100 kilometers, becoming the first person in space twice.