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Joseph S. B. Mitchell
Joseph S. B. Mitchell is an American computer scientist and SUNY Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University, known for shortest-path algorithms and the 2010 Gödel Prize.
Joseph S. Davis
Joseph S. Davis (Joseph Stancliffe Davis) was an American agricultural economist who directed Stanford's Food Research Institute and led the American Economic Association in 1944.
Joseph S. Fruton
Joseph S. Fruton (1912–2007) was a Polish-born American biochemist and historian of biochemistry, a Yale professor who studied proteolytic enzymes and coauthored the landmark textbook General Biochemistry (1953).
Joseph S. Nelson
Joseph S. Nelson, born Joseph Schieser Nelson (1937–2011), was a Canadian ichthyologist and University of Alberta zoology professor, author of four editions of Fishes of the World.
Joseph S. Pagano
Joseph S. Pagano is an American physician-scientist and tumor virologist at UNC-Chapel Hill, where since 1965 he has studied Epstein-Barr virus and cancer and founded the Lineberger Cancer Center.
Joseph S. Ross
Joseph S. Ross is an American physician and health services researcher at Yale School of Medicine who studies how medicines are regulated and how hospital care quality is measured.
Joseph S. Takahashi
Joseph S. Takahashi is an American chronobiologist who identified the first mammalian circadian clock gene, Clock, and has chaired neuroscience at UT Southwestern Medical Center since 2009.
Joseph S. V. Bokkelen
Joseph S. Van Bokkelen (born 1943) is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana since 2017.
Joseph Sadoc Alemany
Joseph Sadoc Alemany, also known as José Sadoc Alemany, was a Spanish Dominican friar who became Bishop of Monterey in California and the first Archbishop of San Francisco.
Joseph Saelee
Joseph Saelee (born 2002), also JdMfX, is an American classic Tetris player who won CTWC 2018 and 2019 by hypertapping, first reached Level 31, and returned at CTM Tap Masters 2025.
Joseph Saenz de Aguirre
Joseph Saenz de Aguirre (José Sáenz de Aguirre) was a Spanish Benedictine theologian and cardinal, remembered for his anti-Gallican defense of papal infallibility and his edition of Spanish and New World councils.
Joseph Safra
Joseph Safra (1938–2020) was a Lebanese-born Brazilian banker who built Banco Safra in São Paulo into one of Brazil's largest private banks, worth $23.2 billion at his death.
Joseph Saidu Momoh
Joseph Saidu Momoh (1937–2003), Sierra Leonean soldier and second president (November 1985–April 1992), handpicked by Siaka Stevens, led the APC one-party state, re-introduced multiparty rule via the 1991 Constitution, faced the RUF war, and was overthrown by Strasser's 1992 NPRC coup.
Joseph Sambrook
Joseph Sambrook (1939–2019) was a British-born molecular biologist best known for DNA tumor virus research and as senior author of Molecular Cloning, the standard lab manual.
Joseph Sauer
Joseph Sauer (1872–1949) was a German Catholic priest and art historian who held the first chair of Christian archaeology at a Catholic theology faculty in Germany.
Joseph Sax
Joseph Sax (1936–2014) was an American legal scholar known as the father of environmental law, whose 1970 article revived the public trust doctrine for protecting natural resources.
Joseph Saxton
Joseph Saxton (1799–1873) was an American inventor and metrologist who built the magneto-electric machine in London in 1832, took the oldest extant American photograph in 1839, and led the U.S. Office of Weights and Measures.
Joseph Schacherer
Joseph Schacherer is a geneticist and professor of genetics and genomics at the Université de Strasbourg, known for large-scale surveys of baker's yeast genome diversity in Nature.
Joseph Schildkraut
Joseph Schildkraut (1895/1896–1964), Austrian-American actor, son of Rudolph Schildkraut; Oscar winner as Captain Dreyfus in The Life of Emile Zola (1937) and Otto Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank on Broadway and film.
Joseph Schlessinger
Joseph Schlessinger is a biochemist and pharmacologist at Yale School of Medicine who established how receptor tyrosine kinases activate, and founded biotech companies that discovered sunitinib and vemurafenib.
Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company
Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company, a Milwaukee brewery founded in 1849 by August Krug and renamed for Joseph Schlitz, made "The Beer that Made Milwaukee Famous," was once the world's largest brewery, and saw its brand placed on hiatus by Pabst in May 2026.
Joseph Schooling
Joseph Schooling, Singapore's first and only Olympic gold medallist, won the 2016 Rio 100m butterfly in 50.39s, an Olympic record, beating Michael Phelps; retired from swimming on 2 April 2024.
Joseph Schumpeter
Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950) was an Austrian-born economist who argued that entrepreneurs drive development through creative destruction, predicted capitalism's success would lead to socialism, and taught at Harvard.
Joseph Schwane
Joseph Schwane (1824–1892) was a German Catholic priest and dogmatic theologian at Münster, whose four-volume Dogmengeschichte (1862–1890) was the first Catholic history of dogma in German.
Joseph Shea (FBI agent)
Joseph Gerald Shea (1919–2005), FBI special agent from Brookline, Massachusetts, who arrested Frank Abagnale Jr. near Atlanta and inspired Tom Hanks's Carl Hanratty in Catch Me If You Can; also called Sean O'Riley in the 1980 book.
Joseph Sikora
Joseph Sikora, born 1976 in Chicago, is an American actor best known as Tommy Egan on Starz's Power and lead of Power Book IV: Force, with roles in Ozark, Boardwalk Empire, and Jack Reacher.
Joseph Silk
Joseph Silk, born 1942 in London, is a British and US cosmologist known for Silk damping, cosmic microwave background anisotropy theory, and the physics of galaxy formation.
Joseph Silverman
Joseph Silverman (1860–1930) was an American Reform rabbi, the first American-born rabbi to serve in New York City and the leading figure of Temple Emanu-El for 34 years.
Joseph Simmons
Joseph Simmons (born 1964), known as Run and Rev Run, is the Queens-born rapper, co-founder of Run-D.M.C. with DMC and Jam Master Jay, later an ordained Pentecostal minister, gospel label owner, and MTV reality star.
Joseph Sitruk
Joseph Sitruk (1944–2016) was a French Sephardi rabbi, chief rabbi of France from 1987 to 2008, born in Tunis and known for advising Jews to wear caps instead of kippot in 2003.