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Joseph Opoku
Joseph Opoku (Joseph Amankwaah Opoku, born 2005) is a Ghanaian left winger at Swansea City, signed from Zulte Waregem in July 2026; one Ghana cap, distinct from Nicholas and Jerome Opoku.
Joseph Orbeli
Joseph Orbeli (Armenian: Հովսեփ Օրբելի) was an orientalist specializing in Iranian studies, Armenian philology, and Kurdish studies who directed the State Hermitage Museum from 1934 to 1951.
Joseph P. Broderick
Joseph P. Broderick is an American vascular neurologist and stroke researcher at the University of Cincinnati, known for stroke epidemiology and major acute stroke treatment trials.
Joseph P. Colgan
Joseph P. Colgan is an American research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver who studies Cenozoic tectonics and volcanism in the western United States.
Joseph P. Heremans
Joseph P. Heremans (1953–2025) was a Belgian-born condensed matter experimental physicist at Ohio State known for thermoelectrics and spin caloritronics, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013.
Joseph P. Iddings
Joseph P. Iddings (1857–1920) was an American petrologist who worked for the U.S. Geological Survey, deciphered Yellowstone's igneous geology, and co-created the C.I.P.W. classification of igneous rocks.
Joseph P. Kennedy II
Joseph P. Kennedy II (born 1952), also called Joe Kennedy II, eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy, is a Massachusetts Democrat who served six House terms (1987-1999) and founded the nonprofit Citizens Energy Corporation in 1979.
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., also known as Joe Kennedy Jr., was a United States Navy aviator and the eldest Kennedy sibling, killed in 1944 when his explosive-laden drone bomber exploded over England in World War II.
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was an American financier who became the youngest bank president at 25, made a fortune in 1920s stocks and Hollywood, and chaired the new SEC.
Joseph P. LaSalle
Joseph P. LaSalle was a mathematician known for LaSalle's invariance principle, a 1960 stability result for dynamical systems; he later directed the Center for Dynamical Systems at Brown University.
Joseph P. Miletich
Joseph P. Miletich is a physician-scientist in hematology and thrombosis, known for protein C deficiency research, who was a professor at Washington University and later a research executive at Amgen and Merck.
Joseph P. Neglia
Joseph P. Neglia, also published as Joseph Neglia, is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist at the University of Minnesota known for defining second-cancer risk in childhood cancer survivors.
Joseph P. Newhouse
Joseph P. Newhouse, born in 1942, is an American health economist at Harvard who designed and directed the RAND Health Insurance Experiment and founded the Journal of Health Economics.
Joseph P. Noel
Joseph P. Noel is a structural and chemical biologist, a Salk Institute professor from 1994 to 2026 and HHMI investigator who studies how plants make specialized compounds.
Joseph P. Ornato
Joseph P. Ornato is an American emergency physician and resuscitation scientist, professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, who chaired the NIH Public Access Defibrillation trial and co-chaired the $50 million Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium.
Joseph P. Stadtmueller
Joseph P. Stadtmueller (born 1942) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin since 1987, appointed by Ronald Reagan and chief judge from 1995 to 2002.
Joseph P. Vacanti
Joseph P. Vacanti is an American pediatric transplant surgeon and tissue engineering researcher who, with Robert Langer of MIT, defined the field of tissue engineering and created the earmouse.
Joseph Parker
Joseph Parker, New Zealand heavyweight boxer of Samoan heritage, former WBO world champion, lost his title to Anthony Joshua in 2018, rebuilt with wins over Wilder and Zhang, and challenged IBF champion Daniel Dubois in 2025.
Joseph Parkes
Joseph Parkes (1796–1865), Birmingham solicitor and radical election agent, advised the Whigs through the 1832 Reform Act, served as secretary of the 1835 Municipal Corporations Commission, and co-founded the Reform Club.
Joseph Passerat
Joseph Amand Passerat (1772–1858) was a French Redemptorist priest who, as Vicar General of the Transalpines from 1820 to 1848, founded 40 monasteries and sent the first Redemptorists to the United States.
Joseph Paul Franklin
Joseph Paul Franklin (born James Clayton Vaughn Jr., 1950–2013) was an American white supremacist serial killer who killed at least 15 people across 11 states in 1977–1980, shot Vernon Jordan and Larry Flynt, and was executed in Missouri in 2013.
Joseph Paul-Boncour
Joseph Paul-Boncour was a French politician and diplomat, prime minister for six weeks in 1932, who represented France at the League of Nations and signed the UN Charter in 1945.
Joseph Pedlosky
Joseph Pedlosky is an American physical oceanographer at Woods Hole, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1985 and author of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.
Joseph Penzien
Joseph Penzien (1924–2011) was an American structural engineer at UC Berkeley who pioneered probabilistic methods in earthquake engineering, founded its Earthquake Engineering Research Center, and co-wrote Dynamics of Structures.
Joseph Pepe
Joseph Pepe (Guiseppe Pietro Pepe, 1881-1970), British rifle shooter of Italian descent, won gold and silver in the two small-bore rifle team events at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.
Joseph Pérès
Joseph Pérès (1890–1962) was a French mathematician and mechanician, professor of mechanics at Marseille and Paris and dean of the Faculty of Science of Paris.
Joseph Perotaux
Joseph Perotaux (1883–1967), French foil fencer of the Cercle de l'Épée de Nantes; won gold in men's team foil at the 1924 Paris Olympics with Gaudin, Cattiau, Ducret and others; his only Olympic appearance.
Joseph Phua
Joseph Phua is a Singapore-based technology entrepreneur who co-founded the dating app Paktor in 2013, then founded M17 Entertainment, now 17LIVE Group, which listed on the Singapore Exchange in 2023.
Joseph Pilates
Joseph Pilates (1883–1967), German boxer and circus tumbler interned at Knockaloe in WWI, created Contrology, now called Pilates, and ran a New York studio from 1927 with Clara Zeuner.
Joseph Plateau
Joseph Plateau, full name Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (1801–1883), was a Belgian physicist who invented the phenakistiscope, an early device creating the illusion of motion.