Josef (given name)

Josef is a variant of the male given name Joseph, notably used in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany and Switzerland. The name also appears in Scandinavia. Notable people with the surname include:

Arts

Josef Abrhám (1939–2022), Czech actor
Josef Albers (1888–1976), German artist
Josef Bierbichler (born 1948), German actor and writer
Josef Fares (born 1977), Swedish-Lebanese film director and video game designer
Josef Frank (architect) (1885–1967), Austrian-Swedish architect and artist
Josef Gočár (1880–1945), Czech architect
Josef Hlinomaz (1914–1978), Czech actor
Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956), Austrian architect and designer
Josef Kemr (1922–1995), Czech actor
Josef Kjellgren (1907–1948), Swedish writer
Josef Krips (1902–1974), Austrian orchestral conductor
Josef Lada (1887–1957), Czech painter, illustrator and writer
Josef Müller (art collector) (1887–1977), Swiss art collector and curator
Josef Müller-Brockmann (1914–1996), graphic designer
Josef Felix Müller (born 1955), Swiss sculptor, graphic artist and painter
Josef Václav Myslbek (1848–1922), Czech sculptor
Josef Mysliveček (1737–1781), Czech composer
Josef Schmid (composer) (1890–1969), American conductor and composer
Josef Skřivan (1902–1942), Czech actor and director
Josef Skupa (1892–1957), Czech puppeteer
Josef Somr (1934–2022), Czech actor
Josef von Sternberg (1894–1969), Austrian-American film director
Josef Strauss (1827–1870), Austrian composer
Josef Suk (composer) (1874–1935), Czech composer and violinist
Josef Suk (violinist) (1929–2011), Czech violinist and conductor

Sports

Josef Augusta (ice hockey) (1946–2017), Czech ice hockey player and coach
Josef Bican (1913–2001), Austrian-Czech footballer
Josef Beránek (born 1969), Czech ice hockey player
Josef Čtyřoký (1906–1985), Czech footballer
Josef Doležal (1920–1999), Czech race walker
Josef Dostál (canoeist) (born 1993), Czech sprint canoeist
Josef Duchoslav (born 1967), Czech ice hockey player
Josef Effenberger (1901–1983), Czech gymnast
Josef Fahrenholtz (born 2001), American basketball player
Josef Hladký (born 1962), Czech-German medley swimmer
Josef Hügi (1930–1995), Swiss footballer
Josef Hušbauer (born 1990), Czech footballer
Josef Imbach (athlete) (1894–1964), Swiss sprinter
Josef Jandač (born 1968), Czech ice hockey coach
Josef Jungmann (fencer) (1888–1982), Czech fencer
Josef Košťálek (1909–1971), Czech footballer
Josef Kořenář (born 1998), Czech ice hockey player
Josef Kratochvíl (footballer) (1905–1984), Czech footballer
Josef Lontscharitsch (born 1970), Austrian road cyclist
Josef Martínez (born 1993), Venezuelan footballer
Josef Masopust (1931–2015), Czech footballer
Josef Melichar (born 1979), Czech ice hockey player
Josef Mikoláš (1938–2015), Czech ice hockey player
Josef Müller (footballer) (1893–1984), German footballer
Josef Newgarden (born 1990), American racing driver
Josef Odložil (1938–1993), Czech middle-distance runner
Josef Pešice (1950–2017), Czech football player and manager
Josef Samael (born 1974), American professional wrestler
Josef Schmid (athlete) (born 1953), German middle-distance runner
Josef Schneider (footballer) (1901–?), Austrian football player and manager
Josef Schneider (rower) (1891–1966), Swiss rower
Josef Schneider (skier) (born 1957), German skier
Josef Silný (1902–1981), Czech footballer
Josef Šural (1990–2019), Czech footballer
Josef Vašíček (1980–2011), Czech ice hockey player
Josef Vojta (1935–2023), Czech footballer
Sepp Zeilbauer (born Josef Zeilbauer, 1952), Austrian decathlete

Other

Josef Ludwig von Armansperg (1787–1853), Bavarian government minister, Regent and Prime Minister of Greece
Josef Augusta (paleontologist) (1903–1968), Czech paleontologist and geologist
Josef Bühler (1904–1948), German Nazi government official executed for crimes against humanity
Josef Dietrich (1892–1966), German World War II Waffen-SS general and war criminal
Josef Dobrovský (1753–1829), Czech philologist and historian
Josef Ertl (1925–2000), German politician
Josef Frank (politician) (1885–1967), Czech politician
Josef Fritzl (born 1935), Austrian sex offender
Josef Grünwidl (born 1963), Austrian archbishop
Josef Hoop (1895–1959), Prime Minister of Liechtenstein
Josef Imbach (theologian) (born 1945), Swiss theologian
Josef Ježek (1884–1969), Czech politician
Josef Jungmann (1773–1847), Czech linguist and poet
Josef Jungmann (theologian) (1830–1885), German-Austrian theologian
Josef Andreas Jungmann (1889–1975), Austrian Jesuit priest and reformer
Josef Kareis (1837–1913), Austrian electrical engineer and politician
Josef Klaus (1910–2001), Austrian politician
Josef Kleindienst (born 1963), Austrian property developer
Josef Kramer (1906–1945), German commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp executed for war crimes
Josef Albert Meisinger (1899–1947), German Nazi SS and Gestapo officer executed for war crimes
Josef Mengele (1911–1979), German World War II SS officer, physician and war criminal
Josef Müller (entomologist) (1880–1964), Croatian entomologist
Josef Müller (politician) (1898–1979), German politician
Josef Oberhauser (1915–1979), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant and Holocaust perpetrator
Josef Schmid (flight surgeon) (born 1965), NASA flight surgeon
Josef Schmid (theologian) (1883–1975), German Catholic theologian
Josef Schneider Sr. (1840–1927), German electrical engineer
Josef Schütz (1921–2023), Lithuanian-German Nazi SS concentration camp guard
Josef Schwammberger (1912–2004), Nazi SS forced labor camp commandant
Josef Singer (1923–2009), Israeli aeronautic engineer
Josef Meier Spatz, Canadian property developer
Josef Wüst (1925–2003), Austrian journalist, editor-in-chief and publisher

Fictional characters

Josef Landau, fictional character in the book Refugee
Josef K, fictional character in Franz Kafka's novel The Trial
Josef (Vert) Wheeler, a character from various Hot Wheels media

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