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
- Josef Abrhám (1939–2022), 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 Bierbichler (born 1948), German actor and writer
- 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 Dobrovský, Czech philologist and historian
- 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 Hoop (1895–1959, Prime Minister of Liechtenstein
- Josef Hügi (1930–1995), Swiss footballer
- Josef Imbach (disambiguation)
- Josef Ježek, Czech politician
- Josef Jungmann (1773–1847), Czech poet and linguist
- Josef Kareis (1837–1913), Austrian electrical engineer and politician
- 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 Schuetz, or 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 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
Fictional characters
- Josef Landau, fictional character in the book Refugee
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See also
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