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Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy (1908–1957), Republican US senator from Wisconsin, led the Second Red Scare with his 1950 Wheeling claim of 205 Communist State Department employees, chaired the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and was censured 67–22 in 1954.
Joseph Meir Weiss (יוסף מאיר וייס)
Joseph Meir Weiss, also known as Yosef Meir Weiss (יוסף מאיר וייס), was a Hungarian Hasidic rebbe who founded the Spinka dynasty in Spinka, Maramureș, in 1876 and wrote the Imrei Yosef.
Joseph Mercola
Joseph Mercola, American osteopathic physician and founder of Mercola.com (1997), a major natural-health and supplement business; three-time NYT bestselling author, recipient of FDA and FTC enforcement actions, and a CCDH-named 'Disinformation Dozen' member.
Joseph Merrick
Joseph Carey Merrick, known as the Elephant Man, was an Englishman from Leicester with severe deformities who lived at the London Hospital until his death in 1890.
Joseph Michael Daly
Joseph Michael Daly (1922–1993) was an American plant physiologist at the University of Nebraska known for research on wheat rust and the 1970 southern corn leaf blight toxin.
Joseph Miller (aerospace engineer)
Joseph Miller was an American aerospace engineer at TRW who led development of the Apollo Lunar Module Descent Engine and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991.
Joseph Millson
Joseph Millson (born 1974, Berkshire) is an English actor known for Peak Practice, Holby City, Banished, and The Last Kingdom, an RSC associate artist, and since 2022 a writer-director of Care, Signs of Life, and Empire of Lies.
Joseph Misdraji
Joseph Misdraji is an American pathologist specializing in gastrointestinal and liver pathology, known for his classification of appendiceal mucinous neoplasms and pseudomyxoma peritonei, who directed Massachusetts General Hospital's GI Pathology Unit.
Joseph Mitchell
Joseph Mitchell (1908–1996) was an American journalist and New Yorker staff writer whose profiles of New York street characters became famous; he published nothing after 1964 yet stayed on staff.
Joseph Morelle
Joseph D. Morelle, born in 1957, is an American Democratic politician who has represented New York's 25th Congressional District in the U.S. House since 2018, after serving as Majority Leader of the New York State Assembly.
Joseph Morgan (actor)
Joseph Morgan (born Joseph Martin, 1981) is a British actor trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, known for Klaus Mikaelson on The Vampire Diaries and The Originals (2013-2018), and later roles in Brave New World, Titans, and Halo.
Joseph Mougous
Joseph D. Mougous is a microbiologist best known for discovering that the type VI secretion system delivers toxins between bacteria, and is an HHMI Investigator.
Joseph Mundassery
Joseph Mundassery (1903–1977) was a Malayalam literary critic, author of Kavya Peetika and theorist of Roopabhadrata, who served as Kerala's first Minister for Education in the E.M.S. Namboodiripad ministry.
Joseph Murumbi
Joseph Zuzarte Murumbi was a Kenyan politician, anti-colonial activist, and art collector who served as Kenya's second vice-president from May to November 1966 after being foreign minister.
Joseph Muscat
Joseph Muscat (born 1974), Maltese Labour politician, Prime Minister of Malta 2013–2020 and party leader from 2008; introduced citizenship-by-investment, resigned over the Caruana Galizia murder probe, and was charged in 2024 in the hospitals concession case.
Joseph Musch
Joseph Musch (1893–1971), nicknamed "Prince", Belgian midfielder for Union Saint-Gilloise; 258 league matches, 113 goals, three Belgian titles, and Olympic football gold with Belgium at Antwerp 1920.
Joseph N. Laplante
Joseph Normand Laplante is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in New Hampshire since 2007, appointed by George W. Bush; he was chief judge from 2011 to 2018.
Joseph N. Welch
Joseph Nye Welch (1890–1960), Boston Hale and Dorr partner and Army special counsel in the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings, rebuked Senator Joseph McCarthy on June 9, 1954 with 'Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?' after McCarthy attacked associate Fred Fisher.
Joseph Nāwahī
Joseph Nāwahī (1842–1896) was a Native Hawaiian nationalist leader, legislator, lawyer, and newspaper publisher who opposed annexation of the Hawaiian Kingdom and died in 1896 after imprisonment for treason.
Joseph Ndandarika
Joseph Ndandarika (1940–May 1991) was a Zimbabwean sculptor and painter counted among the First Generation of Shona stone sculptors, whose figurative work drew on Shona spiritual beliefs and everyday life.
Joseph Needham
Joseph Needham (1900–1995) was a British biochemist and historian of science at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, known for Science and Civilisation in China and the Needham Question.
Joseph Neng Shun Kwong
Joseph Neng Shun Kwong (1916–1998) was a Chinese-born American chemical engineer who co-created the Redlich–Kwong equation of state with Otto Redlich at Shell in 1949.
Joseph Nguthiru
Joseph Nguthiru is a Kenyan climate-tech engineer and entrepreneur who founded HyaPak Ecotech, converting invasive water hyacinth from Lake Naivasha into biodegradable plastic alternatives. In 2025 UNEP named him a Young Champion of the Earth.
Joseph Nye
Joseph S. Nye Jr. (1937–2025), also known as Joe Nye, American political scientist at Harvard who coined soft power in 1990, co-founded neoliberal IR theory with Keohane, and served as Kennedy School dean and Pentagon official.
Joseph O. Hirschfelder
Joseph O. Hirschfelder (1911–1990) was an American theoretical chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who worked on the Manhattan Project and won the 1975 National Medal of Science.
Joseph of Arimathea
Joseph of Arimathea is the New Testament figure who buried Jesus, appearing in all four Gospels' burial accounts. Later legend made him the Grail-bearer and founder of Glastonbury's church.
Joseph of Cupertino
Joseph of Cupertino, born Giuseppe Desa, was an Italian Conventual Franciscan priest (1603 to 1663) whose reported ecstasies and levitations made him patron saint of pilots, astronauts, and students.
Joseph of Volokolamsk
Joseph of Volokolamsk (Иосиф Волоцкий), born Ivan Sanin, was a Russian Orthodox theologian and saint who founded the Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery in 1479 and defended monastic landholding at the 1503 council.
Joseph Olivier
Joseph Olivier (Joseph Adolphe Théophile Olivier, 1874-1901), French rugby union forward and captain who won gold with France at the 1900 Paris Olympics; Stade Français player, French champion 1894 and 1895.
Joseph Olivier Briand
Jean-Olivier Briand (1715–1794) was a French-born Catholic priest who served as Bishop of Québec from 1766 to 1784, the first bishop appointed under British rule, remembered as the second founder of the Canadian Church.