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Joseph Slepian
Joseph Slepian, born 1891 in Boston, was an American electrical engineer and mathematician at Westinghouse who invented the autovalve lightning arrester, Deion circuit breaker, and ignitron.
Joseph Smagorinsky
Joseph Smagorinsky (1924–2005) was an American meteorologist who founded and directed NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory from 1955 to 1983, pioneering computer modeling of weather and climate.
Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith is the American religious leader who founded the Latter-day Saint movement, produced the Book of Mormon, and was assassinated by a mob in Illinois in 1844.
Joseph Smith III
Joseph Smith III (1832–1914), eldest son of Joseph Smith and Emma Smith, led the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as prophet-president from 1860 for 54 years.
Joseph Sodroski
Joseph G. Sodroski is a virologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School known for identifying the HIV coreceptor CCR5 and the restriction factor TRIM5α.
Joseph Spiegel
Joseph Spiegel was a German Jewish immigrant to Chicago who founded a home furnishings store in 1865, the origin of the Spiegel mail-order catalog company.
Joseph St. Geme Jr.
Joseph W. St. Geme Jr. (1931–1986) was an American pediatrician who chaired pediatrics at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and served as dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Joseph Stalin (Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин)
Joseph Stalin (Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин, born Dzhugashvili, 1878–1953), Georgian-born Soviet dictator and Communist Party General Secretary from 1922; Five-Year Plans, forced collectivization, Great Terror, WWII leadership, death March 1953.
Joseph Stella
Joseph Stella, born Giuseppe Michele Stella (1877–1946), was an Italian-born American painter who adapted European Futurism to portray New York's industrial cityscape, above all the Brooklyn Bridge.
Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz (born 1943, Gary, Indiana), American economist and Columbia University Professor, co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics with Akerlof and Spence for analyses of markets with asymmetric information; former CEA chairman and World Bank chief economist.
Joseph Stilwell
Joseph Warren Stilwell (1883-1946), 'Vinegar Joe,' was the US Army general and Chinese-speaking chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek who commanded American CBI forces 1942-44 until his recall at Chiang's demand.
Joseph Story
Joseph Story (1779–1845), youngest-ever U.S. Supreme Court justice (appointed 1812), Harvard's Dane Professor, author of the 1833 Commentaries on the Constitution and major opinions Martin v. Hunter's Lessee, Amistad, Swift v. Tyson, and Prigg v. Pennsylvania.
Joseph Sullivan
Joseph Sullivan (born 1987, Rangiora, New Zealand) is a rower, not the Uber CSO or Mad Dog killer; Olympic gold 2012 double sculls with Nathan Cohen, world champion 2010-2011, 2017 America's Cup winner.
Joseph Sunnen
Joseph Sunnen (1897–1979) was an American inventor and industrialist who founded Sunnen Products Company in St. Louis in 1924, holding nearly 100 patents in valve tools and precision honing.
Joseph Süß Oppenheimer
Joseph Süß Oppenheimer (1698–1738) was a Jewish court banker to Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg, executed in Stuttgart after a trial widely called a judicial murder.
Joseph Swan
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was a British chemist and inventor who developed the incandescent lamp independently of Edison and invented carbon printing and bromide paper.
Joseph Sweetman Ames
Joseph Sweetman Ames (1864–1943) was an American physicist and Johns Hopkins University president known for spectroscopy research and chairing the NACA, forerunner of NASA's Ames Research Center.
Joseph T. Bass
Joseph T. Bass is an American physician-scientist at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine who studies how circadian clocks regulate metabolism, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2025.
Joseph T. Coyle
Joseph T. Coyle is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School known for his Huntington's disease animal model and glutamate research in schizophrenia.
Joseph T. Ferrucci
Joseph T. Ferrucci is an American abdominal radiologist who headed abdominal radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and received the American Roentgen Ray Society's Gold Medal in 2000.
Joseph T. Kummer
Joseph T. Kummer (1919–1997) was an American chemical engineer and electrochemist at Ford Motor Company's research laboratories, known for inventing the sodium-sulfur battery and pioneering beta-alumina ionic conductors.
Joseph T. Ling
Joseph T. Ling (1919–2006) was a Chinese-born American environmental engineer who led pollution control at 3M and created its Pollution Prevention Pays program in 1975.
Joseph Taub
Joseph Taub was an American businessman who co-founded Automatic Data Processing (ADP), the payroll services company, with his brother Henry Taub, starting in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1949.
Joseph Taylor (colonel)
Joseph Taylor (1741/42-1815) was Colonel/Commandant of the Granville County, North Carolina militia, 1775-1783, leading it at Moore's Creek Bridge and Guilford Court House; later NC Senator (1781, 1803). Distinct from the Philadelphia politician, Joseph Pannell Taylor, and other same-era namesakes.
Joseph Terry
Joseph Terry (1793–1850) was an English confectioner who took over a York sweet business founded in 1767 and, using the railways, made Terry's products known across England.
Joseph Tsai (蔡崇信)
Joseph Tsai, also known as Joe Tsai, is a Taiwan-born businessman who joined Alibaba as a founding team member in 1999 and has been its chairman since 2023.
Joseph Tyrrell
Joseph Burr Tyrrell was a Canadian geologist with the Geological Survey of Canada who in 1884 found the Albertosaurus skull in the Alberta badlands and later explored the Barren Lands.
Joseph V. Bonventre
Joseph V. Bonventre is an American nephrologist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital whose research defined acute kidney injury, its biomarkers, and repair.
Joseph V. Charyk
Joseph V. Charyk (1920–2016) was a Canadian-born engineer, first director of the US National Reconnaissance Office and founding president of COMSAT, credited with founding the geosynchronous satellite industry.
Joseph Valachi
Joseph Michael Valachi (born 1904), aka Joe Cargo, Charles Sanbano, Anthony Sorge, was a Genovese crime family soldier who in October 1963 became the first Mafioso to break omertà publicly, testifying before a Senate subcommittee and revealing the name La Cosa Nostra; his memoir inspired The Valachi Papers.