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Joseph Kimani
Joseph Kimani (1972-2012), Kenyan road runner, also written Joseph K. Kimani; mid-1990s American road circuit star who set two world 10K records in 1996, ran 27:04 at Peachtree (fastest 10K on U.S. soil), and died of pneumonia in Eldoret.
Joseph Kittinger
Joseph William Kittinger, known as Joe Kittinger, was an American Air Force officer and balloonist who set a 1960 record parachute jump from 102,800 feet over New Mexico.
Joseph Klafter
Joseph Klafter (יוסף קלפטר), known as Yossi Klafter, is an Israeli chemical physicist who introduced Lévy walks and served as Tel Aviv University's president from 2009 to 2019.
Joseph Konopka
Joseph Konopka (born 1976), alias Dr. Chaos, an American who led the Realm of Chaos in sabotage of Wisconsin infrastructure 1998–2001 and stored cyanide in Chicago subway tunnels, receiving 23 years in federal prison.
Joseph Kony
Joseph Kony (born 1961) is the Ugandan founder and leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, wanted by the ICC since 2005 for war crimes and crimes against humanity; charges were confirmed in absentia in November 2025 while he remains at large.
Joseph Kosinski
Joseph Kosinski (born 1974, Iowa) is an American director of Tron: Legacy, Oblivion, Only the Brave, Spiderhead, Top Gun: Maverick, and F1; trained in engineering and architecture, known for in-camera spectacle and musician scores.
Joseph Kraut
Joseph Kraut (1926–2012) was an American protein crystallographer at UC San Diego known for determining the structures of chymotrypsinogen and subtilisin and analyzing serine protease catalysis.
Joseph Kruskal
Joseph Bernard Kruskal, Jr. (1928–2010) was an American mathematician and statistician at Bell Laboratories who created Kruskal's algorithm and gave nonmetric multidimensional scaling its modern form.
Joseph L. DeRisi
Joseph L. DeRisi is an American molecular biologist and virologist who co-developed the Virochip, identified the SARS coronavirus in 2003, and studies malaria at UCSF.
Joseph L. Dieleman
Joseph L. Dieleman is an American health economist and professor at IHME, University of Washington, who leads research tracking global health spending and development assistance for health.
Joseph L. Galloway
Joseph L. Galloway (1941-2021), American UPI war correspondent, co-author of We Were Soldiers Once... and Young with Hal Moore; only civilian awarded the Bronze Star with V in the Vietnam War, for Ia Drang, 1965.
Joseph L. Goldstein
Joseph L. Goldstein, born 1940, is an American molecular geneticist who co-discovered the LDL receptor and receptor-mediated endocytosis, winning the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Joseph L. Kirschvink
Joseph L. Kirschvink is an American geobiologist and paleomagnetist, Van Wingen Professor of Geobiology, Emeritus, at Caltech, known for the Snowball Earth hypothesis and magnetoreception research.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909-1993), American screenwriter, producer, and director; won back-to-back Best Director and Screenplay Oscars for A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve, and directed the $34-million Cleopatra (1963).
Joseph L. Melnick
Joseph L. Melnick (1914–2001) was an American virologist and epidemiologist at Baylor College of Medicine, best known for polio research and stabilizing oral polio vaccine.
Joseph L. Rice III
Joseph L. Rice III, born around 1932, is an American private equity investor who co-founded Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in 1978, chairing the firm until 2012.
Joseph L. Taylor
Joseph L. Taylor (Joseph Lawrence Taylor, 1941–2016) was an American mathematician at the University of Utah known for work on Banach algebras and noncommutative harmonic analysis.
Joseph L. Witztum
Joseph L. Witztum (1943–2026) was an American physician-scientist, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego from 1979, known for the oxidation hypothesis of atherosclerosis and the 2020 Anitschkow Prize.
Joseph Lane
Joseph Lane was an American politician and soldier who served as the first governor of Oregon Territory. He also served as a U.S. senator and delegate to Congress.
Joseph Larmor
Joseph Larmor (1857–1942) was an Irish mathematical physicist at Cambridge, Lucasian Professor from 1903 to 1932, who first calculated the radiation of an accelerated electron and explained the magnetic splitting of spectrum lines.
Joseph Larner
Joseph Larner (1921–2014) was an American biochemical pharmacologist who chaired pharmacology at the University of Virginia from 1969 to 1990 and founded its Diabetes Center for Research in 1974.
Joseph Lau
Joseph Lau Luen-hung (刘銮雄) is a Hong Kong property developer and investor who founded Evergo in 1978 and built it into the listed Chinese Estates Holdings.
Joseph Lawson Hodges, Jr.
Joseph Lawson Hodges, Jr. (1922–2000) was an American mathematical statistician at Berkeley, a student of Jerzy Neyman, known for the Hodges estimator and the Hodges–Lehmann estimator.
Joseph LeConte
Joseph LeConte (1823–1901) was an American geologist, chemist, and educator, the first professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a founding Sierra Club member.
Joseph Leidy
Joseph Leidy (1823–1891) was a Philadelphia anatomist, vertebrate paleontologist, and parasitologist known as the "Father of American Vertebrate Paleontology" who described the first relatively complete dinosaur skeleton, Hadrosaurus, in 1858.
Joseph Leo Doob
Joseph Leo Doob (1910–2004) was an American mathematician at the University of Illinois, best known for developing martingales systematically and, alongside Kolmogorov, giving probability theory its modern mathematical foundation.
Joseph Leonard Walsh
Joseph Leonard Walsh (1895–1973) was an American mathematician at Harvard known for the Walsh functions, later central to digital signal processing, and for approximation theory.
Joseph Leonide Gerver
Joseph Leonide Gerver is a mathematician at Rutgers University, best known for the Gerver sofa, the shape of area 2.2195 he proposed in 1992 for the moving sofa problem.
Joseph Liberman
Joseph Liberman (Иосиф Меерович Либерман) was a Soviet Leningrad mathematician who worked on convex surfaces, earned his candidate degree, and died in 1941; Perelman and Petrunin's paper names the generalized Liberman theorem.
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (1827–1912), was a British surgeon who founded antiseptic surgery by using carbolic acid to destroy wound microbes, cutting amputation deaths and earning the name father of modern surgery.