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Joseph E. Murray
Joseph E. Murray (1919–2012) was an American surgeon who performed the first successful kidney transplant in 1954 and shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Joseph E. Parrillo
Joseph E. Parrillo is an American cardiologist and critical care researcher who showed septic shock involves reversible heart-muscle depression, and directs research at Hackensack University Medical Center's Heart and Vascular Hospital.
Joseph E. Rall
Joseph E. Rall (1920–2008) was an American physician and thyroid physiologist at the NIH who founded its Clinical Endocrinology Branch and advanced the free thyroid hormone hypothesis.
Joseph E. Ravenell
Joseph E. Ravenell is an American physician-investigator at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who studies hypertension and cancer screening in Black men, best known for barbershop-based blood pressure trials.
Joseph E. Subotnik
Joseph E. Subotnik is an American theoretical chemist, the David B. Jones Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, known for work on nonadiabatic dynamics and electron transfer.
Joseph E. Varner
Joseph E. Varner (1921–1995) was an American plant biochemist known for showing that gibberellin controls α-amylase gene expression in barley, and for cloning extensin cDNA.
Joseph Edelman
Joseph Edelman is an American hedge fund manager, founder and CEO of Perceptive Advisors, a New York firm managing about $11 billion with a focus on biotechnology stocks.
Joseph Edlow
Joseph Benjamin Edlow, American lawyer and USCIS director confirmed July 15, 2025 by a 52-47 Senate vote; former ICE counsel, USCIS chief counsel and acting director, known for asylum pauses and high-risk country adjudication holds.
Joseph Edward Duncan
Joseph Edward Duncan III, American serial killer and child molester, killed three members of the Groene family near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho in 2005, abducted Shasta and Dylan Groene, and received three federal death sentences; he died of brain cancer on death row in 2021.
Joseph Edward Mayer
Joseph Edward Mayer (1904–1983) was an American physical chemist known for the virial theory of condensing gases, Mayer graphs, and the 1940 textbook Statistical Mechanics.
Joseph Edward Smadel
Joseph Edward Smadel (1907–1963) was an American physician and virologist who led the 1948 chloramphenicol trials for scrub typhus and typhoid fever, winning the 1962 Lasker Award.
Joseph Eldrid Burke
Joseph Eldrid Burke (1914–2000) was an American metallurgist who helped build the first plutonium-processing facility at Los Alamos and led the General Electric ceramics group that developed Lucalox alumina for sodium lamps.
Joseph Emmett Shepherd
Joseph Emmett Shepherd is a Caltech professor emeritus of aeronautics and mechanical engineering who studies detonation waves and explosion hazards, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.
Joseph Erlanger
Joseph Erlanger was an American physiologist who shared the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Herbert S. Gasser for discoveries on single nerve fibers.
Joseph Estrada
Joseph Estrada (Erap, born Joseph Marcelo Ejercito, 1937) is a Filipino actor-turned-politician, 13th president of the Philippines 1998-2001, ousted amid jueteng bribery allegations, convicted of plunder in 2007, pardoned, later Manila mayor.
Joseph Everett Dutton
Joseph Everett Dutton (1874–1905) was a British parasitologist who identified the first trypanosome found in human blood and died of relapsing fever in the Congo.
Joseph F. Anderson, Jr.
Joseph F. Anderson, Jr., born Joseph Fletcher Anderson, Jr., is an American jurist and senior federal judge in South Carolina, appointed by Reagan in 1986.
Joseph F. Bataillon
Joseph F. Bataillon, born 1949 in Omaha, Nebraska, is a senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska, appointed by President Clinton in 1997.
Joseph F. Bianco
Joseph F. Bianco, born 1966, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Second Circuit since 2019, appointed by President Trump.
Joseph F. Fraumeni
Joseph F. Fraumeni was an American cancer epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute who co-discovered Li-Fraumeni syndrome and founded its Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics.
Joseph F. Leeson, Jr.
Joseph F. Leeson, Jr. (born 1955) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Joseph F. Saporito, Jr.
Joseph F. Saporito, Jr., born 1960, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania since 2024, nominated by President Biden.
Joseph F. Smith
Joseph F. Smith (1838–1918) was the sixth president of the LDS Church, serving from 1901 to 1918, and the son of Hyrum Smith and nephew of Joseph Smith Jr.
Joseph F. Traub
Joseph F. Traub (1932–2015) was an American computer scientist who founded Columbia's computer science department, headed Carnegie Mellon's, created information-based complexity, and developed the Jenkins-Traub algorithm.
Joseph Feinstein
Joseph Feinstein (born 1925) is an American electrical engineer and physicist known for pioneering work on traveling wave tubes and magnetrons, and a 1965 standard text.
Joseph Felsenstein
Joseph Felsenstein, born 1942 in Philadelphia, is an American population geneticist at the University of Washington known for bringing rigorous statistical methods, above all maximum likelihood, into inferring evolutionary trees.
Joseph Fesch
Joseph Fesch (1763–1839) was a Corsican-born French cardinal, Archbishop of Lyon, and Napoleon's half-uncle, who served as the empire's grand almoner and ambassador to Rome.
Joseph Fiennes
Joseph Fiennes (born 1970, Salisbury) is an English actor, star of Shakespeare in Love, The Handmaid's Tale's Commander Waterford, and Olivier-nominated Gareth Southgate in Dear England; brother of Ralph Fiennes.
Joseph Fonseca
Joseph Fonseca is a Puerto Rican merengue and bachata singer from Caguas, born in 1979, who rose with Los Sabrosos del Merengue and has recorded solo since 2000.
Joseph Force Crater
Joseph Force Crater, known as Judge Crater, was a New York State Supreme Court justice appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt who vanished in Manhattan in August 1930.