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Josiah Tongogara

Josiah Magama Tongogara was a Zimbabwean commander who led ZANLA during the Rhodesian Bush War and died in a car crash days after the 1979 Lancaster House Agreement.

Josiah Trotter

Josiah Trotter (born 2005) is a Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker, 46th overall pick of the 2026 NFL Draft from Missouri and West Virginia; son of Jeremiah Trotter, 2024 Big 12 Defensive Freshman of the Year.

Josiah Warren

Josiah Warren (1798–1874), American individualist anarchist, first American anarchist, founder of Equitable Commerce, cost the limit of price, labor notes, Cincinnati Time Store, New Harmony critic, Modern Times community founder.

Josiah Wedgwood

Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795) was an English potter who founded the Etruria works, perfected Queen's Ware and Jasperware, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Josiah Whitney

Josiah Dwight Whitney was an American geologist who directed the California Geological Survey from 1860 to 1874 and later taught at Harvard; Mount Whitney is named for him.

Josiah Willard Gibbs

Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903) was an American theoretical physicist and chemist who spent his career at Yale, laying the foundation of chemical thermodynamics with papers published from 1876 to 1878.

Josias Braun-Blanquet

Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884–1980) was a Swiss botanist, born in Chur and trained in Montpellier, who founded the Zürich-Montpellier school of phytosociology and Europe's standard vegetation classification method.

Josias Simler

Josias Simler (also Simmler) was a Zurich Protestant theologian and professor of the Old and New Testament, known for his biographies and pioneering writings on the Alps.

Josie and the Pussycats (comics)

Josie and the Pussycats, originally She's Josie, is an Archie Comics teen-humor series created by Dan DeCarlo in 1963 about an all-female rock band, adapted into Hanna-Barbera cartoons and a 2001 film.

Josie and the Pussycats (film)

Josie and the Pussycats (2001) is a live-action musical comedy by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont, based on Archie Comics, starring Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, and Rosario Dawson; a box-office flop that became a cult satire of music-industry commercialism.

Josie and the Pussycats (TV series)

Josie and the Pussycats (TV series): Hanna-Barbera animated CBS Saturday morning cartoon based on Archie Comics, premiered September 12, 1970, 16 episodes, retooled as Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space in 1972.

Josie Baff

Josie Baff (Josephine Louise Baff, born 2003, Cooma NSW) is an Australian snowboard cross rider from Jindabyne; 2026 Olympic champion, Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic gold medallist, and 2023 world championship silver medallist.

Josie Bissett

Josie Bissett, born Josie Christine Heutmaker (per TV Guide; TVSA says Jolyn), is an American actress known as Jane Mancini on Melrose Place (1992-1999), Kathleen Bowman on The Secret Life of the American Teenager, and Olivia Pershing in Hallmark's Wedding March films.

Josie Davis

Josie Rebecca Davis (born 1973) is an American actress known as Sarah Powell on Charles in Charge, later Camille Desmond on Beverly Hills, 90210 and Lifetime movie leads.

Josie Gibson

Josie Gibson (Josie Diane Shirley Gibson, born 1985), English TV presenter; won Big Brother series 11 in 2010 with 77.5% of the vote, joined This Morning in 2019, hosted from 2021, and finished fourth on I'm A Celebrity 2023.

Josie Lawrence

Josie Lawrence (born Wendy Lawrence, 1959, Old Hill, Dudley) is an English actor, writer and comedian, a Comedy Store Players member and Whose Line Is It Anyway? regular, also an RSC and West End musical actor with three Olivier nominations.

Josie Lloyd

Josie Lloyd names two figures: a British romantic-comedy and women's fiction author who writes as Joanna Rees with husband Emlyn Rees (Come Together), and an American 1960s actress, Norman Lloyd's daughter, known for The Andy Griffith Show.

Josie Long

Josie Long (born 1982, Orpington, Kent) is an English stand-up comedian and writer, BBC New Comedy Award winner at 17, Edinburgh Comedy Award best newcomer 2006 and three-time nominee, Arts Emergency co-founder, and Radio 4 Short Cuts host.

Josie Loren

Josie Loren (Josie Loren Lopez, born 1987, Miami) is an American attorney and former actress, known as Kaylie Cruz on Make It or Break It and Michelle Vega on The Mentalist, married to Matt Leinart since 2018.

Josie Maran

Josie Maran (Johanna Selhorst Maran, born 1978) is an American model, actress, and founder of Josie Maran Cosmetics, the clean beauty brand built on argan oil, launched at Sephora in 2007.

Josie Music Awards

The Josie Music Awards (JMAs) are a privately owned, all-genre awards program honoring independent musicians, held annually in Nashville, Tennessee since 2015; The Tennessean calls it the world's largest independent music award show.

Josie Totah

Josie Totah (born 2001, Sacramento, California), formerly J.J. Totah, is an American actress, writer, and producer who came out as a transgender woman in a 2018 Time essay; known for Lexi in Saved by the Bell, Mabel in The Buccaneers, and the 2026 Carrie series.

Josie Trinidad

Josie Trinidad is a Filipino-American storyboard artist and director at Walt Disney Animation Studios since 2004, co-head of story on Zootopia, head of story on Ralph Breaks the Internet, director of Zootopia+, and co-director of the 2026 feature Hexed.

Josine Koning

Josine Koning (born 1995) is a Dutch field hockey goalkeeper for HC Den Bosch and Oranje, Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medalist, 2018 World Cup shootout hero, and co-chair of the NOC*NSF Athletes Commission from 2026.

Josip Broz Tito

Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav partisan leader and communist head of state from 1936 to 1980, broke with Stalin in 1948, built workers' self-management market socialism, led the non-aligned movement, and died 4 May 1980 in Ljubljana.

Josip Glasnovic

Josip Glasnović (born 1983, Zagreb) is a Croatian trap shooter, Rio 2016 Olympic champion, 2025 world champion in individual and team trap, and holder of the equalled 125-target qualification world record.

Josip Iličić

Josip Iličić, Slovenian attacking midfielder born in Prijedor, Bosnia; starred for Palermo, Fiorentina, and Atalanta in Serie A, scored four goals against Valencia in the 2020 Champions League, played for Slovenia at Euro 2024, and now plays for Koper.

Josip Jelačić

Josip Jelačić (1801–1859) was a Croatian count and Austrian army officer who served as ban of Croatia from 1848 until his death and confirmed the abolition of serfdom in 1848.

Josip Jurčič

Josip Jurčič (1844–1881) was a Slovenian writer, journalist, and editor, regarded as the first great Slovenian narrator and author of the first Slovenian novel, Deseti brat (1866).

Josip Kosor

Josip Kosor (1879–1961) was a Croatian dramatist and short-story writer, called the Croatian Maxim Gorky, whose expressionist play Požar strasti reached German stages in 1911.