# Josef (given name)

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 Kleindienst, Austrian property developer
* 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
* Josef K, fictional character in Franz Kafka's novel The Trial
* Josef (Vert) Wheeler, a character from various Hot Wheels media