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Joseph Buttigieg
Joseph A. Buttigieg (1947–2019), Maltese-born American literary scholar and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of English at Notre Dame; editor-translator of Gramsci's Prison Notebooks critical edition (1992–2007), International Gramsci Society founding president, father of Pete Buttigieg.
Joseph C. Greenfield Jr.
Joseph C. Greenfield Jr., also known as Joseph Cholmondeley Greenfield Jr., was an American cardiologist at Duke University Medical Center. He pioneered reperfusion therapy for acute coronary syndromes.
Joseph C. Logue
Joseph C. Logue was an American electronics engineer at IBM who directed transistor circuit development from 1952 to 1959, enabling machines like the IBM 1401.
Joseph C. Salamone
Joseph C. Salamone (1939–2019) was an American polymer chemist and entrepreneur elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 for advances in contact lenses and wound healing therapies.
Joseph C. Sun
Joseph C. Sun is an immunologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York whose 2009 Nature paper showed that natural killer cells can mount adaptive immune memory.
Joseph C. Wilson
Joseph C. Wilson, also known as Joseph Charles Wilson IV, was an American diplomat and ambassador to Gabon who challenged the Bush administration's Iraq uranium claims in 2003.
Joseph C. Wu
Joseph C. Wu, also known as Joseph Wu, is an American cardiologist who directs the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and was the American Heart Association's 87th president from 2023 to 2024.
Joseph Calasanctius
Joseph Calasanctius (José de Calasanz) was an Aragonese Catholic priest who founded the Pious Schools in Rome in 1597, the first free public school in modern Europe.
Joseph Campanella
Joseph Campanella (1924-2018), American character actor with 200+ TV and film credits, known as Lew Wickersham on Mannix (1968 Emmy nomination), Ed Cooper on One Day at a Time, and the voice of the Lizard in Spider-Man; distinct from catcher Roy Campanella.
Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987), American mythologist and Sarah Lawrence literature professor, author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), which proposed the monomyth or hero's journey, and of The Masks of God; famous through The Power of Myth and Star Wars, criticized by folklorists.
Joseph Capgras
Joseph Capgras (1873–1950) was a French psychiatrist who described the illusion of doubles, now called Capgras syndrome, in 1923 with his intern Jean Reboul-Lachaux, and led a sought-after ward at Sainte-Anne hospital in Paris.
Joseph Caro
Joseph Caro (יוסף קארו, 1488–1575) was a leading rabbi and codifier of Jewish law in Safed, author of the Beit Yosef and the Shulhan Arukh.
Joseph Carrière
Joseph Carrière (1795–1864) was a French Sulpician priest and moral theologian who taught moral theology at Saint-Sulpice from 1818 and served as superior general from 1850.
Joseph Cashen
Joseph Cashen (1934–2022) was a co-founder of Prime Computer in 1972, serving as VP Hardware Engineering for 20 years at the Natick, Massachusetts minicomputer maker.
Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) was a British industrialist and statesman: reforming mayor of Birmingham 1873–76, Liberal Unionist after 1886, Colonial Secretary 1895–1903, and instigator of the 1903 Tariff Reform campaign for imperial preference.
Joseph Charles Aub
Joseph Charles Aub (1890–1973) was an American physician and endocrinologist at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital whose lead poisoning and calcium metabolism studies laid foundations for cancer research.
Joseph Charles Benziger
Joseph Charles Benziger (Josef Karl Benziger, 1762–1841) was a Swiss Catholic businessman who founded a religious publishing house at Einsiedeln, Switzerland, in 1803; its successor, RCL Benziger, still publishes religious education materials.
Joseph Chatoyer
Joseph Chatoyer was the paramount chief of the Black Caribs (Garifuna) of St Vincent who led Carib resistance in the Carib Wars and was killed by British forces in 1795.
Joseph Chatt
Joseph Chatt (1914–1994) was a British inorganic chemist who co-created the Dewar–Chatt–Duncanson model of metal–olefin bonding and opened the chemistry of metal–dinitrogen complexes, founding molecular nitrogen fixation research.
Joseph Checkelsky
Joseph G. Checkelsky is an experimental condensed matter physicist who joined MIT in 2014 and is known for work on magnetism in topological insulators and massive Dirac fermions in the kagome metal Fe3Sn2.
Joseph Chou
Joseph Chou is an American politician and Republican nominee for the U.S. House in New York's 6th Congressional District in the November 2026 general election.
Joseph Christopher
Joseph Gerard Christopher (1955–1993), the '.22 Caliber Killer' and 'Midtown Slasher', was a Buffalo-born serial killer who murdered Black men in New York with a sawed-off .22 rifle from September 1980, was convicted in 1982 and 1985, and died in prison in 1993.
Joseph Cinquemani
Joseph Cinquemani is an American politician and attorney based in New Rochelle, New York, and the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in New York's 16th District.
Joseph Clarence Smith Jr.
Joseph Clarence Smith Jr. (born 1949), also Joe Clarence Smith, is an Arizona death row inmate sentenced in 1977 for the 1975-1976 asphyxiation murders of hitchhikers Sandy Spencer and Neva Lee; resentenced in 2004, appeals continue.
Joseph Colombo
Joseph Colombo, also known as Joseph Anthony Colombo Sr., was an American crime boss who led the Colombo crime family of the New York Mafia until he was shot in 1971.
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Nałęcz Korzeniowski, 1857–1924), Polish-born British novelist and ex-merchant-marine captain who wrote in English, his third language; known for Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, and Marlow.
Joseph Corcoran
Joseph Edward Corcoran (c. 1975–2024), American mass murderer executed by Indiana for the 1997 Fort Wayne killings of his brother James Corcoran, Robert Scott Turner, Douglas Stillwell, and Timothy Bricker; first Indiana execution in 15 years.
Joseph Cornell
Joseph Cornell (1903–1972) was a self-taught American artist who pioneered assemblage, best known for his glass-fronted shadow boxes built from found objects, and who also made experimental films.
Joseph Corré
Joseph Corré (born 1967, London), son of Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, co-founded luxury lingerie brand Agent Provocateur with Serena Rees in Soho in 1994, sold it to 3i in 2007, refused his MBE, and later ran A Child of the Jago, Illamasqua, anti-fracking campaigns, and the 2016 £5m punk memorabilia bonfire.
Joseph Cotten
Joseph Cotten (1905–1994), American actor from Petersburg, Virginia; Mercury Theatre member, Jedediah Leland in Citizen Kane, star of Shadow of a Doubt and The Third Man; Venice Best Actor 1949; never won an Oscar.