* Joseph Chang ( 張孝全 as Wu Min 吳敏 )

Another source from this period is from the work of the missionary Joseph Edkins who gathered prolific amounts of data and published several educational works on Shanghainese as well as a bible in Shanghainese and a few other major Wu varieties.

* Joseph Wu, 2007 – 2008

* In the historical novel Manituana by Wu Ming, a 1770s incarnation of the Mohock gang tries to contact Joseph Brant, a Mohawk leader in visit to the king, and they apply to become the seventh Iroquois nation.

He was appointed Cardinal-Priest of the Titulus S. Chrysogoni by Pope John Paul II on February 21, 1998, and was, following the death of Cardinal Ignatius Kung in 2000, and then Cardinal John Wu in 2002, and before the elevation of Cardinal Joseph Zen, the only known living Chinese Cardinal ( a Cardinal appointed in pectore by Pope John Paul II in 2003 was rumored to reside in mainland China, but that appointment expired with the Pontiff's death since the Cardinal's name was never published ).

After the death of Cardinal Wu on 23 September 2002, his coadjutor Joseph Zen became the 6th bishop of Hong Kong.

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (; born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, ; 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953 ) was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 until his death in 5 March 1953.

Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer (; 5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967 ) was a German statesman.

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (; ; 29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953 ) was a Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus ( NKVD ) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and Deputy Premier in the postwar years ( 1946 – 1953 ).

Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (; ; October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000 ), usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and again from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984.

Joseph Michael Straczynski (; born July 17, 1954 ), known professionally as J. Michael Straczynski and informally as Joe Straczynski or JMS, is an American writer and television producer.

Frederick Augustus I ( full name: Frederick Augustus Joseph Maria Anton Johann Nepomuk Aloys Xavier ) (; 23 December 1750 – 5 May 1827 ) was King of Saxony ( 1805 – 1827 ) from the House of Wettin.

Roger Joseph Ebert (; born June 18, 1942 ) is an American journalist, film critic and screenwriter, who has been described by Forbes as " the most powerful pundit in America ".

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (; also Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac ; 6 December 1778 – 9 May 1850 ) was a French chemist and physicist.

Joseph Benedict " Ben " Chifley (; 1885 – 1951 )

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (; – 8 November 1986 ) was a Soviet politician and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik and a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin, to 1957, when he was dismissed from the Presidium ( Politburo ) of the Central Committee by Nikita Khrushchev.

Joseph Henri Maurice " The Rocket " Richard, (; ; August 4, 1921 – May 27, 2000 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League ( NHL ) from 1942 to 1960.

Joseph Gilles Henri Villeneuve, known as Gilles Villeneuve (; January 18, 1950 – May 8, 1982 ), was a Canadian racing driver.

Joseph Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes (; b. 27 May 1970 ) is an English film and stage actor.

Fourier (; ) most commonly refers to Joseph Fourier ( 1768 – 1830 ), French mathematician and physicist, or the mathematics, physics, and engineering terms named in his honor for his work on the concepts underlying them:

Joseph Athanase Paul Doumer, commonly known as Paul Doumer (; 22 March 1857 – 7 May 1932 ) was the President of France from 13 June 1931 until his assassination.

Joseph Ber ( Yosef Dov, Yoshe Ber ) Soloveitchik (; 1903 – 93 ) was an American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist and modern Jewish philosopher.

Joseph Justus Scaliger (; August 5, 1540, Agen – January 21, 1609, Leiden ) was a French religious leader and scholar, known for expanding the notion of classical history from Greek and Ancient Roman history to include Persian, Babylonian, Jewish and Ancient Egyptian history.

Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (; 2 June 1743 – 26 August 1795 ) was the alias of the occultist Giuseppe Balsamo (; also called Joseph Balsamo ), an Italian adventurer.

Patrick Joseph " Pat " Buchanan (; born November 2, 1938 ) is an American paleoconservative political commentator, author, syndicated columnist, politician, and broadcaster.

Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (; 1797 – 1877 )

Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer (; 20 March 191629 August 2007 ) was a French Gaullist politician.

Marie Joseph François ( Francis ) Garnier (; 25 July 1839-21 December 1873 ) was a French officer and explorer known for his exploration of the Mekong River in Southeast Asia.

Joseph William " Joe " Namath (; born May 31, 1943 ), nicknamed " Broadway Joe " or " Joe Willie ",< ref >

Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph, was a Provençal rabbi, born at Lunel, near Montpellier, towards the end of the 13th century.

In the Biblical account, unlike Rachel's first son, Joseph, Benjamin was born in Canaan.

Muslim tradition, however, fleshes out the details regarding Benjamin and refers to him as being born from Jacob's wife Rachel, and further links a connection, as does Jewish tradition, between the names of Benjamin's children and Joseph.

The description of Benjamin being born after the arrival in Canaan is thought by some scholars to refer to the tribe of Benjamin coming into existence by branching from the Joseph group after the tribe had settled in Canaan.

* Becher ( meaning first born ), in reference to Joseph being the first child of Rachel

Barnabas (), born Joseph, was an early Christian, one of the earliest Christian disciples in Jerusalem.

#**** Jérôme Xavier Marie Joseph Victor Bonaparte ( born 1957 )

The period is sometimes referred to as the era of Viennese Classic or Classicism (), since Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Antonio Salieri, and Ludwig van Beethoven all worked at some time in Vienna, and Franz Schubert was born there.

Craig Joseph Charles ( born 11 July 1964 ) is an English actor, comedian, author, poet, television presenter and radio DJ.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traces its origins to western New York, where Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement was born and raised.

David Hume, originally David Home, son of Joseph Home of Chirnside, advocate, and Katherine Falconer, was born on 26 April 1711 ( Old Style ) in a tenement on the north side of the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh.

* The beginning of the nine-day celebration beginning December 16 and ending December 24, celebrating the trials which Mary and Joseph endured before finding a place to stay where Jesus could be born ( Christians of Spanish-origin ):

Ethan Allen was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the first-born child of Joseph and Mary Baker Allen, both of English and Puritan descent.

He is known to have been living in Northampton, Massachusetts in the spring of 1766, where his son Joseph was born, and where he invested in a lead mine.

He was born in Texing in Lower Austria to unmarried mother Josepha Dollfuss and her lover Joseph Weninger.

Wray, a descendant of both Springfield, Massachusetts, settler William Pynchon and Mormon pioneers, was born on a ranch near Cardston, Alberta, Canada, to two Mormons, Elvina Marguerite Jones, who was from Salt Lake City, and Joseph Heber Wray, who was from Kingston upon Hull, England.

Gavin MacLeod ( born Allan George See, February 28, 1931 ) is an American actor notable for playing Joseph " Happy " Haines on McHale's Navy, Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Captain Merrill Stubing on The Love Boat.

Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. ( born September 11, 1967 ) is an American singer, big-band leader / conductor, pianist, actor, and composer.

James Brown was born in Barnwell, South Carolina on May 3, 1933, to Susie ( née Behlings ) Brown ( August 8, 1916-February 26, 2004 ) and Joseph (" Joe ") Gardner ( March 29, 1911-July 10, 1993 ) ( who changed his surname to Brown after Mattie Brown who raised him ).

He was born Joseph Levitch ( some sources say Jerome Levitch ) in Newark, New Jersey, to Russian Jewish parents.

* Christopher Joseph Lewis ; born October 1957 to Patti Palmer

* Anthony Joseph Lewis ; born October 1959 to Patti Palmer

* Joseph Christopher Lewis ; born January 1964 to Patti Palmer, died October 24, 2009 from a narcotics overdose.

* Joseph was born about 1628 and died in Bridgewater on February 8, 1696 / 7.