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, Czech actor
- Josef Albers, German artist
- Josef Bierbichler, German actor and writer
- Josef Fares, Swedish-Lebanese film director and video game designer
- Josef Frank (architect), Austrian-Swedish architect and artist
- Josef Gočár, Czech architect
- Josef Hlinomaz, Czech actor
- Josef Hoffmann, Austrian architect and designer
- Josef Kemr, Czech actor
- Josef Kjellgren, Swedish writer
- Josef Krips, Austrian orchestral conductor
- Josef Lada, Czech painter, illustrator and writer
- Josef Müller (art collector), Swiss art collector and curator
- Josef Müller-Brockmann, graphic designer
- Josef Felix Müller, Swiss sculptor, graphic artist and painter
- Josef Václav Myslbek, Czech sculptor
- Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer
- Josef Schmid (composer), American conductor and composer
- Josef Skřivan, Czech actor and director
- Josef Skupa, Czech puppeteer
- Josef Somr, Czech actor
- Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-American film director
- Josef Strauss, Austrian composer
- Josef Suk (composer), Czech composer and violinist
- Josef Suk (violinist), Czech violinist and conductor
Sports
- Josef Augusta (ice hockey), Czech ice hockey player and coach
- Josef Bican, Austrian-Czech footballer
- Josef Beránek, Czech ice hockey player
- Josef Čtyřoký, Czech footballer
- Josef Doležal, Czech race walker
- Josef Dostál (canoeist), Czech sprint canoeist
- Josef Duchoslav, Czech ice hockey player
- Josef Effenberger, Czech gymnast
- Josef Fahrenholtz, American basketball player
- Josef Hladký, Czech-German medley swimmer
- Josef Hügi, Swiss footballer
- Josef Hušbauer, Czech footballer
- Josef Imbach (athlete), Swiss sprinter
- Josef Jandač, Czech ice hockey coach
- Josef Jungmann (fencer), Czech fencer
- Josef Košťálek, Czech footballer
- Josef Kořenář, Czech ice hockey player
- Josef Kratochvíl (footballer), Czech footballer
- Josef Lontscharitsch, Austrian road cyclist
- Josef Martínez, Venezuelan footballer
- Josef Masopust, Czech footballer
- Josef Melichar, Czech ice hockey player
- Josef Mikoláš, Czech ice hockey player
- Josef Müller (footballer), German footballer
- Josef Newgarden, American racing driver
- Josef Odložil, Czech middle-distance runner
- Josef Pešice, Czech football player and manager
- Josef Samael, American professional wrestler
- Josef Schmid (athlete), German middle-distance runner
- Josef Schneider (footballer), Austrian football player and manager
- Josef Schneider (rower), Swiss rower
- Josef Schneider (skier), German skier
- Josef Silný, Czech footballer
- Josef Šural, Czech footballer
- Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey player
- Josef Vojta, Czech footballer
- Sepp Zeilbauer, Austrian decathlete
Other
- Josef Ludwig von Armansperg, Bavarian government minister, Regent and Prime Minister of Greece
- Josef Augusta (paleontologist), Czech paleontologist and geologist
- Josef Bühler, German Nazi government official executed for crimes against humanity
- Josef Dietrich, German World War II Waffen-SS general and war criminal
- Josef Dobrovský, Czech philologist and historian
- Josef Ertl, German politician
- Josef Frank (politician), Czech politician
- Josef Fritzl, Austrian sex offender
- Josef Grünwidl, Austrian archbishop
- Josef Hoop, Prime Minister of Liechtenstein
- Josef Imbach (theologian), Swiss theologian
- Josef Ježek, Czech politician
- Josef Jungmann, Czech linguist and poet
- Josef Jungmann (theologian), German-Austrian theologian
- Josef Andreas Jungmann, Austrian Jesuit priest and reformer
- Josef Kareis, Austrian electrical engineer and politician
- Josef Klaus, Austrian politician
- Josef Kleindienst, Austrian property developer
- Josef Kramer, German commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp executed for war crimes
- Josef Albert Meisinger, German Nazi SS and Gestapo officer executed for war crimes
- Josef Mengele, German World War II SS officer, physician and war criminal
- Josef Müller (entomologist), Croatian entomologist
- Josef Müller (politician), German politician
- Josef Oberhauser, German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant and Holocaust perpetrator
- Josef Schmid (flight surgeon), NASA flight surgeon
- Josef Schmid (theologian), German Catholic theologian
- Josef Schneider Sr., German electrical engineer
- Josef Schütz, Lithuanian-German Nazi SS concentration camp guard
- Josef Schwammberger, Nazi SS forced labor camp commandant
- Josef Singer, Israeli aeronatic engineer
- Josef Meier Spatz, Canadian property developer
- Josef Wüst, 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 Wheeler, a character from various Hot Wheels media