Josef (given name)

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 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 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 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