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José Manuel Barroso
José Manuel Durão Barroso, Portuguese politician (PSD), was Prime Minister of Portugal 2002–2004 and President of the European Commission 2004–2014 across the Lisbon Treaty and eurozone crisis; later Goldman Sachs International chairman (2016) and Gavi board chair.
José María Aznar
José María Aznar López, Spanish prime minister 1996–2004 and PP leader from 1989; led liberalization, euro adoption and Spain's Iraq alignment; defeated after 11-M 2004 bombings.
Jose R. Olvera, Jr.
Jose R. Olvera, Jr., born 1963, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Texas since 2015, appointed by President Barack Obama.
José Rodrigo Aréchiga Gamboa
José Rodrigo Aréchiga Gamboa, alias El Chino Ántrax (born 1980, Culiacán), was a Sinaloa Cartel lieutenant who founded and led its armed wing Los Ántrax, was arrested in Amsterdam in 2013, prosecuted in San Diego, and killed in Sinaloa in May 2020 after fleeing supervised release.
José Santacruz Londoño
José Santacruz Londoño, alias Chepe, co-founded and was the third-ranking leader of Colombia's Cali cartel, ran its New York cocaine network, was arrested in Bogotá in July 1995, escaped La Picota prison in January 1996, and was killed by police near Medellín in March 1996.
Josef Bühler
Josef Bühler (1904–1948), Nazi state secretary and deputy to Hans Frank in the General Government of occupied Poland; urged the Final Solution at the Wannsee Conference; executed in Cracow in 1948.
Joseph A. Laroski, Jr.
Joseph A. Laroski, Jr., born in 1971, is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of International Trade since 2024, appointed by President Biden.
Joseph Bankman
Joseph Bankman, also known as Alan Joseph Bankman, is an American tax law scholar and clinical psychologist who holds the Ralph M. Parsons Professorship of Law and Business at Stanford Law School.
Joseph Bonanno
Joseph Bonanno (Giuseppe Bonanno, "Joe Bananas"), 1905-2002, Sicilian-born American Mafia boss who founded and led the Bonanno crime family, one of New York's Five Families, from 1931 to the mid-1960s before exile to Tucson.
Joseph Christopher
Joseph Gerard Christopher (1955–1993), the '.22 Caliber Killer' and 'Midtown Slasher', was a Buffalo-born serial killer who murdered Black men in New York with a sawed-off .22 rifle from September 1980, was convicted in 1982 and 1985, and died in prison in 1993.
Joseph Clarence Smith Jr.
Joseph Clarence Smith Jr. (born 1949), also Joe Clarence Smith, is an Arizona death row inmate sentenced in 1977 for the 1975-1976 asphyxiation murders of hitchhikers Sandy Spencer and Neva Lee; resentenced in 2004, appeals continue.
Joseph Colombo
Joseph Colombo, also known as Joseph Anthony Colombo Sr., was an American crime boss who led the Colombo crime family of the New York Mafia until he was shot in 1971.
Joseph Corcoran
Joseph Edward Corcoran (c. 1975–2024), American mass murderer executed by Indiana for the 1997 Fort Wayne killings of his brother James Corcoran, Robert Scott Turner, Douglas Stillwell, and Timothy Bricker; first Indiana execution in 15 years.
Joseph Dawson III
Joseph Dawson III is an American jurist serving as a judge on the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina since 2020, appointed by President Trump.
Joseph Edward Duncan
Joseph Edward Duncan III, American serial killer and child molester, killed three members of the Groene family near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho in 2005, abducted Shasta and Dylan Groene, and received three federal death sentences; he died of brain cancer on death row in 2021.
Joseph F. Anderson, Jr.
Joseph F. Anderson, Jr., born Joseph Fletcher Anderson, Jr., is an American jurist and senior federal judge in South Carolina, appointed by Reagan in 1986.
Joseph F. Bataillon
Joseph F. Bataillon, born 1949 in Omaha, Nebraska, is a senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska, appointed by President Clinton in 1997.
Joseph F. Bianco
Joseph F. Bianco, born 1966, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Second Circuit since 2019, appointed by President Trump.
Joseph F. Leeson, Jr.
Joseph F. Leeson, Jr. (born 1955) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Joseph F. Saporito, Jr.
Joseph F. Saporito, Jr., born 1960, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania since 2024, nominated by President Biden.
Joseph Force Crater
Joseph Force Crater, known as Judge Crater, was a New York State Supreme Court justice appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt who vanished in Manhattan in August 1930.
Joseph H. McKinley, Jr.
Joseph H. McKinley, Jr. is an American jurist, a United States district judge for the Western District of Kentucky since 1995, nominated by President Clinton.
Joseph J. Longobardi
Joseph J. Longobardi (born 1930) is an American jurist, a former United States district judge for the District of Delaware appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1984.
Joseph James DeAngelo
Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., former California police officer identified in 2018 as the Golden State Killer via genetic genealogy (GEDmatch, MyHeritage); pleaded guilty in 2020 to 13 murders and dozens of rapes, sentenced to life without parole.
Joseph Kallinger
Joseph Kallinger, born Joseph Lee Brenner III, was an American shoemaker from Philadelphia who murdered three people and led home invasions with his son in 1974 and 1975.
Joseph Konopka
Joseph Konopka (born 1976), alias Dr. Chaos, an American who led the Realm of Chaos in sabotage of Wisconsin infrastructure 1998–2001 and stored cyanide in Chicago subway tunnels, receiving 23 years in federal prison.
Joseph M. Hood
Joseph Martin Hood, born 1942, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky since 2007.
Joseph N. Laplante
Joseph Normand Laplante is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in New Hampshire since 2007, appointed by George W. Bush; he was chief judge from 2011 to 2018.
Joseph N. Welch
Joseph Nye Welch (1890–1960), Boston Hale and Dorr partner and Army special counsel in the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings, rebuked Senator Joseph McCarthy on June 9, 1954 with 'Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?' after McCarthy attacked associate Fred Fisher.
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.