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 so named include:

Josef Abrhám (born 1939), 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 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 Hügi (1930–1995), Swiss footballer
Josef Imbach (disambiguation)
Josef Ježek, Czech politician
Josef Jungmann (1773–1847), Czech poet and linguist
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 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

See also