Joss (name)
Joss is a given name and surname.
Notable people with the name include:
Given name or nickname
- Joss Ackland, British actor
- Joss Ambler, Australian-born British film and television actor
- Joss Christensen, American freestyle skier and 2014 Olympic gold medalist
- Joss Fritz, insurgent in Germany
- Joss Labadie, English footballer
- Joss McKinley English photographic artist
- Joss Naylor, English fell runner
- Joss Sackler, Canadian fashion designer
- Joss Whedon, American screenwriter, film and television director and producer, television series creator, comic book author and composer
- George (Duala king) or Joss, a late 18th-century king of the Duala people of Cameroon
Stage name or pen name
- Joss., taxonomic author abbreviation of Marcel Josserand, a French mycologist
- Joss Stirling, a pen name of British novelist Julia Golding
- Joss Stone, stage name of British female soul singer, songwriter and actress Joscelyn Eve Stoker
- Lewis Joss, one half of the magic double act Jay & Joss
Surname
- Addie Joss, American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Chris Joss, French musician and record producer
- Johnny Joss, American college football player
- Jonathan Joss, American actor
- Morag Joss, English-born Scottish writer
- Robert L. Joss, American businessman, banker, professor and former university administrator
- Scott Joss, American country musician
Fictional characters
- Joss Carter, from the American television series Person of Interest
- Joss Kendrick, American Girl character
- Joss Merlyn, from the novel Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
- Joss Moody, from the novel Trumpet by Jackie Kay
- Joss Peroni, from the Australian television series Blue Heelers
- Joss Possible, from the animated American television series Kim Possible
- Palmer Joss, a character in the 1985 science fiction novel ''Contact''