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 HuÅ¡bauer (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 PeÅ¡ice (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 Å ural (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 aeronatic 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

See also

• Jozef