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Joseph J. DePaolo
Joseph J. DePaolo is an American banker who co-founded Signature Bank in 2001 and served as its president and CEO for 22 years until New York regulators closed it in March 2023.
Joseph J. Eron
Joseph J. Eron is an American infectious disease physician-scientist at UNC Chapel Hill whose 1995 trial helped establish combination HIV therapy, and who now chairs the ACTG trials network.
Joseph J. Jacobs
Joseph J. Jacobs (1916–2004) was an American chemical engineer who founded Jacobs Engineering Group in Pasadena, California, in 1947, growing it into a global engineering and construction firm.
Joseph J. Katz
Joseph J. Katz (1912–2008) was an American chemist at Argonne National Laboratory who worked on the Manhattan Project and pioneered the chemistry of photosynthesis and chlorophyll.
Joseph J. Kieber
Joseph J. Kieber is an American plant molecular biologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill known for defining the ethylene and cytokinin signaling pathways.
Joseph J. Kohn
Joseph J. Kohn (1932–2023) was a Czech-born American mathematician and Princeton professor who solved the ∂̄-Neumann problem in 1962 and co-created the Kohn–Nirenberg pseudodifferential calculus.
Joseph J. Longobardi
Joseph J. Longobardi (born 1930) is an American jurist, a former United States district judge for the District of Delaware appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1984.
Joseph J. McGovern
Joseph J. McGovern was an American physician and hematologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, known for a 1959 study of bone marrow infusion in leukemia.
Joseph J. Pfiffner
Joseph J. Pfiffner (1903–1975) was an American biochemist who, with Wilbur Swingle at Princeton, developed the first practical cortin extract, used to treat Addison's disease.
Joseph J. Pignatello
Joseph J. Pignatello is an American environmental chemist who led a 38-year research program at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven, studying contaminant sorption and water oxidation.
Joseph J. Spengler
Joseph J. Spengler (1902–1991) was an American economist at Duke University who helped found economic demography and the history of political economy, and led the American Economic Association.
Joseph J. Volpe
Joseph J. Volpe is an American child neurologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, considered the founder of neonatal neurology and author of the landmark textbook Neurology of the Newborn.
Joseph James DeAngelo
Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., former California police officer identified in 2018 as the Golden State Killer via genetic genealogy (GEDmatch, MyHeritage); pleaded guilty in 2020 to 13 murders and dozens of rapes, sentenced to life without parole.
Joseph Jankovic
Joseph Jankovic is an American neurologist, Professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, who pioneered botulinum toxin therapy and tetrabenazine approval for movement disorders.
Joseph Janvier Woodward
Joseph Janvier Woodward (1833–1884) was a United States Army physician and brevet lieutenant colonel who pioneered photomicrography and helped compile the Civil War's medical record.
Joseph Jean Baptiste Neuberg
Joseph Jean Baptiste Neuberg (1840–1926) was a Luxembourg-born Belgian mathematician, professor at the University of Liège, known for the Neuberg cubic and circles in triangle geometry.
Joseph Jefferson Beaman Jr.
Joseph Jefferson Beaman Jr., known as Joseph J. Beaman, is an American mechanical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin who co-invented selective laser sintering, an early form of 3D printing.
Joseph Jez
Joseph M. Jez is an American enzymologist and chemical biologist who studies plant hormone signaling, and is Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis.
Joseph Joffre
Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre (1852–1931), French marshal and commander-in-chief; won the Battle of the Marne, September 1914; created Plan XVII; removed in December 1916; Académie française 1918.
Joseph John Gurney
Joseph John Gurney (1788–1847) was an English Quaker minister, banker's son, and philanthropist from Norwich whose three-year American ministry, 1837 to 1840, made him the leading evangelical Quaker and namesake of the Gurneyite branch.
Joseph Kabila
Joseph Kabila Kabange, born 1971, president of the DRC 2001–2019 after his father's assassination; held power past the 2016 term limit, was sentenced to death in absentia in 2025, US-sanctioned in 2026, and now leads an M23-inclusive coalition in Goma.
Joseph Kallinger
Joseph Kallinger, born Joseph Lee Brenner III, was an American shoemaker from Philadelphia who murdered three people and led home invasions with his son in 1974 and 1975.
Joseph Kampé de Fériet
Joseph Kampé de Fériet (1893–1982) was a French mathematician and fluid mechanician, professor at Lille and first director of its fluid mechanics institute, known for the Kampé de Fériet function.
Joseph Kaplan
Joseph Kaplan (1902–1991) was an American physicist at UCLA who studied the light of the upper atmosphere, helped create aeronomy, and chaired the US committee for the International Geophysical Year.
Joseph Kasa-Vubu
Joseph Kasa-Vubu was a Congolese politician who led the ABAKO independence movement and served as the first President of the Congo from 1960 to 1965.
Joseph Kearns
Joseph Sherrard Kearns (1907 or 1904-1962), American character actor: radio's Man in Black on Suspense, Ed the Guard on Jack Benny, Doorknob voice in Alice in Wonderland, and Mr. Wilson on CBS's Dennis the Menace until his death in February 1962.
Joseph Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula
Joseph Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula is a Native Hawaiian clinical health psychologist who chairs Native Hawaiian Health at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and studies cardiometabolic disease disparities.
Joseph Keller
Joseph Bishop Keller (1923–2016) was an American applied mathematician, professor at NYU and Stanford, best known for the Geometrical Theory of Diffraction and the Einstein–Brillouin–Keller quantization rules.
Joseph Kestin
Joseph Kestin (1913–1993) was a Polish-born thermodynamicist and Brown University professor known for precision measurement of steam and fluid properties, his two-volume A Course in Thermodynamics, and election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1982.
Joseph Keter
Joseph Keter (born 1969, Lessos, Nandi, Kenya) is a Kenyan former steeplechaser and Army officer who won 3000 m steeplechase gold at Atlanta 1996 in 8:07.12, beating world record holder Moses Kiptanui; personal best 8:05.99.