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Joseph Woll
Joseph Woll (born 1998, Dardenne Prairie, Missouri) is an American NHL goaltender, drafted 62nd overall by Toronto in 2016, a Boston College alum and 2017 World Junior gold medalist, traded to the Philadelphia Flyers in June 2026.
Joseph Wright of Derby
Joseph Wright of Derby was an English painter, born and based in Derby, whose candlelit pictures of science and industry made him the painter of the Industrial Revolution.
Joseph Wyan Chamberlain
Joseph Wyan Chamberlain (1928–2004) was an American astronomer and geophysicist specializing in the aurora, airglow, and planetary atmospheres; an airglow band system bears his name.
Joseph Zada
Joseph Zada (born Joseph Cumpston, 2005, Sydney) is an Australian actor; credits include Bilched, Invisible Boys, We Were Liars, East of Eden, and Haymitch in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026). Not the Singapore credentialing firm ZADA.
Joseph Zen
Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, cardinal and retired Bishop of Hong Kong (2002–2009), Salesian priest, critic of the 2018 Vatican–China bishops agreement, democracy advocate, convicted 2022 over the 612 fund registration.
Joseph Zobel
Joseph Zobel (1915–2006) was a Martinican novelist and poet best known for La Rue Cases-Nègres (1950), adapted by Euzhan Palcy into the 1983 film Rue Cases-Nègres.
Joseph-Alexander Martigny
Joseph-Alexander Martigny (1808–1880) was a French Catholic priest, canon of Belley, and archaeologist whose Dictionnaire des antiquités chrétiennes (1865) was the first reference dictionary of early Christian antiquities.
Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Joseph-Armand Bombardier (1907–1964) was a Canadian inventor and businessman from Valcourt, Quebec, who invented the snowmobile, launched the Ski-Doo in 1959, and founded Bombardier Inc.
Joseph-François Lafitau
Joseph-François Lafitau (1681–1746) was a French Jesuit priest and missionary to the Iroquois at Kahnawake near Montreal whose 1724 work comparing their customs with those of antiquity is seen as a forerunner of ethnology.
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738-1814), French physician and Paris deputy who proposed machine decapitation in 1789; the guillotine, designed by Antoine Louis, was named for him, though he did not invent it and died naturally in 1814.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, baptized Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia, was an Italian-born mathematician who directed mathematics at the Berlin Academy for 20 years and finished his career in Paris.
Joseph-Octave Plessis
Joseph-Octave Plessis (1763–1825) was the eleventh bishop of Quebec and its first archbishop, who won a measure of legal recognition for the Catholic Church from the British state.
Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery
The Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery (Иосифо-Волоцкий монастырь) is a Russian Orthodox men's monastery near Volokolamsk, founded in 1479 by St. Joseph of Volokolamsk on his family land.
Joseph: King of Dreams
Joseph: King of Dreams is DreamWorks Animation's 2000 direct-to-video animated biblical musical, a prequel to The Prince of Egypt adapting the Genesis Joseph story, directed by Rob LaDuca and Robert C. Ramirez with Ben Affleck voicing Joseph.
Joseph's Tomb
Joseph's Tomb (Kever Yosef) is a domed shrine near ancient Shechem in Nablus, West Bank, venerated by Jews, Samaritans, Christians, and Muslims as the burial place of the patriarch Joseph, though it has never been excavated.
JosephF. Fraumeni
Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr. (1933–2026) was an American cancer epidemiologist who co-discovered Li-Fraumeni syndrome and founded the National Cancer Institute's Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics.
Josephine (2026 film)
Josephine is a 2026 American drama by Beth de Araújo, based on her childhood, in which eight-year-old Mason Reeves witnesses a sexual assault in Golden Gate Park; it won Sundance 2026's Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award, starring Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan.
Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker (Freda Josephine McDonald, 1906–1975), American-born French music-hall star of La Revue nègre and the Folies Bergère banana dance, French Resistance intelligence agent, civil rights activist, and first Black woman inducted into the Panthéon (2021).
Josephine Bakhita
Josephine Bakhita, also known as Saint Bakhita, was a Sudanese Canossian religious sister kidnapped and enslaved as a child, canonized in 2000 as the Catholic Church's first Sudanese saint.
Josephine Bracken
Josephine Bracken, full name Marie Josephine Leopoldine Bracken, was the Hong Kong-born companion of José Rizal during his exile in Dapitan, dying in Hong Kong in 1902.
Joséphine de Beauharnais
Joséphine de Beauharnais (born Marie-Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, 1763–1814) was a Martinique-born empress of the French as Napoleon I's first wife (1804–1809), divorced for lack of an heir, famed for Malmaison's roses and Redouté's art.
Joséphine de La Baume
Joséphine de La Baume (born 1984, Paris) is a French actress, writer, director, singer and songwriter known for One Day, Johnny English Reborn, Rush and The Hitman's Bodyguard, and for the band Singtank with brother Alexandre.
Josephine Dillon
Josephine Dillon (1884-1971), American actress, drama coach, and author of Modern Acting: A Guide for Stage, Screen and Radio (1940); coached and married Clark Gable, 1924-1930.
Josephine Earp
Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp (1861–1944), also called Sadie, was Wyatt Earp's Jewish common-law wife for 47 years, from Tombstone before the 1881 O.K. Corral gunfight to his 1929 death, later shaping his legend through the contested memoir I Married Wyatt Earp.
Josephine Henning
Josephine Henning (born 1989) is a German former centre-back who won four UEFA Women's Champions League titles with Potsdam, Wolfsburg, and Lyon, four Bundesliga titles, Euro 2013, and Rio 2016 Olympic gold, retiring in 2018 to work as an artist.
Josephine Hopper
Josephine "Jo" Verstille Nivison Hopper (1883–1968), American watercolorist, wife and model of Edward Hopper; managed his career, kept his ledgers, and was rediscovered as an artist after 1980.
Josephine Jackson
Josephine Jackson (Yuliia Romanivna Seniuk, Юлія Сенюк), Ukrainian adult film actress born 1995 in Zolochiv; AVN-nominated performer, volunteer raising funds for prosthetics for wounded Ukrainian soldiers, and actress in "10 Bloggers", living in Warsaw since 2025.
Joséphine Japy
Joséphine Japy, born 1994 in Paris, is a French actress, screenwriter, and director known for Respire (César nomination 2015), Tapie, and her Cannes 2025 directing debut Qui brille au combat.
Josephine Jewell Dodge
Josephine Jewell Dodge (1855-1928), Hartford-born philanthropist, Vassar student, day-nursery pioneer, and founding president of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (1911-1920).
Joséphine Jobert
Joséphine Jobert (born 1985, Paris) is a French actress and singer known as DS Florence Cassell in Death in Paradise and Deputy Chief Archambault in CBC's Saint-Pierre.