Josef (given name)

Josef is a variant of the masculine given name Joseph, notably used in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic, and also in Scandinavia.

People

 * Josef Abrhám (1939–2022), Czech film and stage actor
 * Josef Albers (1888–1976), German Artist
 * Josef Ludwig von Armansperg (1787–1853), Bavarian government minister, Regent and Prime Minister of Greece
 * Josef Bühler (1904–1948), German Nazi government official executed for crimes against humanity
 * Josef Dobrovský (1753–1829), Czech philologist and historian
 * Josef Dietrich (1892–1966), German World War II Waffen-SS general and war criminal
 * Josef Dobrovský, Czech philologist and historian
 * Josef Doležal (1920–1999), Czechoslovak race walker
 * Josef Duchoslav (born 1967), Czech ice hockey player
 * Josef Ertl (1925–2000), German politician
 * Josef Frank (architect) (1885–1967), Austrian-born architect, artist, and designer
 * Josef Fritzl (born 1935), Austrian sex offender
 * Josef Gočár (1880–1945), Czech architect
 * Josef Hladký (born 1962), Czech-German retired medley swimmer
 * Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956), Austrian architect and designer of consumer goods
 * Josef Hoop (1895–1959, Prime Minister of Liechtenstein
 * Josef Hügi (1930–1995), Swiss footballer
 * Josef Imbach (disambiguation)
 * Josef Ježek, Czech politician
 * Josef Jungmann (1773–1847), Czech poet and linguist
 * Josef Kareis (1837–1913), Austrian electrical engineer and politician
 * Josef Kjellgren (1907–1948), Swedish writer
 * Josef Klaus (1910–2001), Austrian politician
 * Josef Košťálek (1909–1971), Czech footballer
 * Josef Kramer (1906–1945), German commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp executed for war crimes
 * Josef Krips (1902–1974), Austrian orchestral conductor
 * Josef Lontscharitsch (born 1970), Austrian former road cyclist
 * Josef Martínez (born 1993), Venezuelan footballer
 * Josef Albert Meisinger (1899–1947), also known as the "Butcher of Warsaw", 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 Muller (disambiguation)
 * Josef Václav Myslbek (1848–1922), Czech sculptor
 * Josef Mysliveček (1737–1781), Czech composer
 * Josef Newgarden (born 1990), American IndyCar Series driver
 * Josef Oberhauser (1915–1979), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant and Holocaust perpetrator
 * Josef Odložil (1938–1993), Czech middle-distance runner
 * Josef Samael or Josef (wrestler), ring names of professional wrestler The Sheik II
 * Josef Schmid (disambiguation)
 * Josef Schneider (disambiguation)
 * Josef Schuetz, or 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 President of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
 * Josef von Sternberg (1894–1969), Austrian-American film director born Jonas Sternberg
 * Josef Strauss (1827–1870), Austrian composer, brother of Johann Strauss II
 * Josef Suk (composer) (1874–1935), Czech composer and violinist
 * Josef Suk (violinist) (1929–2011), his grandson, Czech violinist and conductor
 * Josef Wüst (1925–2003), Austrian journalist, editor-in-chief and publisher
 * Josef Sepp Zeilbauer (born 1952), Austrian former decathlete

Fictional characters

 * Josef Landau, fictional character in the book Refugee