Josef
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Josef is a variant of the masculine given name Joseph, notably used in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. People so named include:
- Josef Abrhám (born 1939), Czech film and stage actor
- 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 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 Košťálek (1909-1971), Czech footballer
- Josef Kramer (1906–1945), German commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp executed for war crimes
- Josef Lontscharitsch (born 1970), Austrian former road cyclist
- 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 Merrell (born 1996), brother of Dominic Merrell
- 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 Schmid (disambiguation)
- Josef Schneider (disambiguation)
- Josef Schwammberger (1912–2004), Nazi SS forced labor camp commandant
- 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