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Joseph Coulter (businessman)

Joseph Coulter (1924–1995) was an American businessman who co-founded Coulter Electronics in 1958 with his brother Wallace and led the maker of the Coulter Counter.

Joseph Crétin

Joseph Crétin (1799–1857) was a French Catholic priest who became the first bishop of St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1851, building the diocese's churches, schools, and hospital before dying in 1857.

Joseph Cross (Joseph Michael Cross, born 1986) is an American actor, producer, and director; child star of Northern Lights and Wide Awake, Satellite Award winner for Running with Scissors, later in Flags of Our Fathers, Milk, Lincoln, and Licorice Pizza; directed Summer Night (2019).

Joseph Cubells

Joseph F. Cubells is an American psychiatrist and human geneticist at Emory University known for research on how copy-number-variant genomic disorders predispose carriers to autism and schizophrenia.

Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr.

Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr. (1866–1944) was an American Episcopal priest and church historian who taught in Philadelphia and wrote A Source Book for Ancient Church History (1913).

Joseph Cyril Bamford

Joseph Cyril Bamford, known as Joe Bamford, was the English industrialist who founded JCB in a Uttoxeter garage in 1945 and pioneered the backhoe loader in 1953.

Joseph D. Buxbaum

Joseph D. Buxbaum is a molecular neuroscientist and geneticist who directs the Seaver Autism Center at Mount Sinai and studies the genetic basis of autism and schizophrenia.

Joseph D. Etlinger

Joseph D. Etlinger is a cell biologist who, with Alfred Goldberg at Harvard in 1977, established the ATP-dependent reticulocyte lysate system that led to the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway.

Joseph D. Pistone

Joseph D. Pistone, known as Joe Pistone, is a former FBI agent who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family as "Donnie Brasco" from 1976 to 1981.

Joseph D. Schulman

Joseph D. Schulman is an American physician and medical geneticist known for research on sulfur metabolism disorders and for founding the Genetics & IVF Institute in 1984.

Joseph Dalton Hooker

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) was an English botanist and explorer who directed Kew Gardens from 1865 to 1885, co-authored Genera Plantarum, and was the first confidant of Darwin's theory of evolution.

Joseph Damm

Joseph Damm (?–1907) was an Alsatian-born brewer who settled in Barcelona, where after 1881 he founded the breweries whose line of succession leads to S.A. Damm.

Joseph Dancis

Joseph Dancis was an American pediatrician and biochemist at New York University known for defining maple syrup urine disease and for studies of familial dysautonomia.

Sep 27, 2026

Joseph Dawson III

Joseph Dawson III is an American jurist serving as a judge on the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina since 2020, appointed by President Trump.

Joseph de Gallifet

Joseph de Gallifet (1663–1749) was a French Jesuit priest who promoted the Catholic devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, writing its principal theological treatise in Rome in 1726.

Joseph de Maistre

Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821), Savoyard counter-revolutionary thinker and Sardinian diplomat at St Petersburg, author of Considerations on France and Du Pape, a leading Counter-Enlightenment theorist.

Joseph Deharbe

Joseph Deharbe (1800–1871) was a German Jesuit priest and catechist whose 1847 Katholischer Katechismus, translated into at least 15 languages, dominated Catholic schools in Germany and the United States for decades.

Joseph Di Mambro

Joseph Di Mambro, also known as Jo DiMambro, was a French esoteric teacher who co-founded the Order of the Solar Temple in 1984 and died at Salvan, Switzerland, in 1994.

Joseph Diaz

Joseph "JoJo" Diaz Jr. (Joseph Pedroza Diaz Jr., born 1992), American southpaw boxer from South El Monte, California; 2012 Olympian, IBF super featherweight champion 2020, record about 34-10-1 (15 KOs).

Oct 21, 2026

Joseph Dosu

Joseph Dosu (Oladosu-), born 1973 in Abuja, Nigerian goalkeeper; Julius Berger FC and Reggiana; first-choice keeper of Nigeria's 1996 Atlanta Olympic gold-medal Dream Team; career ended by a 1997 car crash.

Joseph Draps

Joseph Draps was a Belgian chocolatier who worked in his family's Brussels chocolate business from age 14, took control after World War II, and built it into Godiva Chocolatier.

Joseph Ducreux

Joseph Ducreux (1735-1802) was a French portraitist, pupil of La Tour, First Painter to Marie-Antoinette, famous for expressive self-portraits and the 2009 Archaic Rap meme.

Joseph Duffy (fighter)

Joseph Duffy, nicknamed "Irish Joe", is an Irish retired lightweight mixed martial artist from Donegal, best known for submitting Conor McGregor at Cage Warriors 39 in 2010.

Joseph Duggar

Joseph Garrett Duggar (born 1995) is a former TLC reality personality, seventh child of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar of 19 Kids and Counting, husband of Kendra Caldwell, arrested in 2026 on Florida child molestation charges and Arkansas child endangerment counts.