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Joe Curtis John Spencer "Big Joe" Curtis (November 14, 1882 – January 29, 1972) was an American football player and coach. While playing for the University of Michigan, he was selected as a first-team All-Western tackle three consecutive years from 1904 ...

(1882–1972), American college football player and coach *

Big Joe Duskin Joseph L. "Big Joe" Duskin (February 10, 1921 – May 6, 2007) was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist. He is best known for his debut album, ''Cincinnati Stomp'' (1978), and the tracks "Well, Well Baby" and "I Met a Girl Named Martha". ...

(1921–2007), American blues and boogie-woogie pianist * Big Joe Krash, pseudonym of American rapper KRS-One *

Joseph Lonardo Joseph Lonardo (; October 20, 1884 – October 13, 1927), also known as "Big Joe", was an American mobster who became the first crime boss of the Cleveland crime family, which he structured from a number of competing organized crime gangs. When ...

(1884–1927), American Mafia crime boss *

Big Joe Mufferaw Joseph "Jos" Montferrand (; born Joseph Favre ; October 25, 1802 – October 4, 1864) was a French-Canadian logger, strongman, and folk hero of the working man and was the inspiration for the legendary Ottawa Valley figure Big Joe Mufferaw. ...

, French Canadian folk hero * Big Joe Nasty, ring name of Joe D'Acquisto, American professional wrestler *

Joe Roberts (actor) Joseph Henry Roberts (February 2, 1871 – October 28, 1923) was an American comic actor who appeared in 16 of Buster Keaton's 19 silent Short subject, short films of the 1920s. "Big Joe" Roberts, as he was known in vaudeville, toured the coun ...

(1871–1923), American comic actor * Joseph Todaro Jr. (born 1945 or 1946), American businessman and alleged Mafia crime boss *

Big Joe Turner Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner Jr. (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. According to songwriter Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never happened without him". Turner's greatest fa ...

(1911–1985), American blues shouter *

Joe Vagana Joseph Sonny Vagana (born 21 January 1975), also known by the nickname of "Big Joe", is a former professional rugby league footballer who played as a Rugby league positions#Prop forward, Prop forward in the 1990s and 2000s. During his career Vag ...

(born 1975), New Zealand former rugby league footballer *

Joe van Niekerk Johann "Joe" van Niekerk (born 14 May 1980) is a South African former professional rugby union player who played either as a flanker or number 8. Career overview After starring for the South Africa Schools, under-19, and under-21 sides, a ...

(born 1980), South African former rugby union player *

Big Joe Williams Joseph Lee Williams (October 16, 1903 – December 17, 1982) was an American Delta blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, notable for the distinctive sound of his nine-string guitar. Performing over five decades, he recorded the songs "Baby, Pl ...

(1903–1982), American Delta blues musician and songwriter *

Big Joe (reggae) Big Joe (born Joseph Spalding; 1955) is a Jamaican reggae deejay and record producer, who recorded extensively in the 1970s and early 1980s. Biography Spalding was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1955, and began his recording career in the early ...

, Jamaican deejay born Joseph Spalding in 1955

Space exploration

Big Joe (Project Mercury) Big Joe 1 (Atlas-10D) launched an uncrewed boilerplate Mercury capsule from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 9 September 1959. The purposes of the Big Joe 1 were to test the Mercury spacecraft ablative heat shield, afterbody heating, reentry dynamics ...

, a subprogram of Project Mercury *

Big Joe 1 Big Joe 1 (Atlas-10D) launched an uncrewed boilerplate Mercury capsule from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 9 September 1959. The purposes of the Big Joe 1 were to test the Mercury spacecraft ablative heat shield, afterbody heating, reentry dynamics ...

, a Project Mercury mission * Big Joe, a rock on Mars - see

List of rocks on Mars Martian rocks and outcrops have been studied ''in-situ'' by various landers and rovers. While many of the rocks identified on the Martian surface are similar to each other, some have been considered scientifically important or otherwise notabl ...

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Big Joe (bell) Joseph (commonly known as Big Joe) is a bronze bell that hangs into the bell tower of Neo-Gothic Saint Francis De Sales Catholic Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The endearing moniker Big Joe is a combination of the names of Joseph T ...

, a bell in Saint Francis De Sales Catholic Church, Cincinnati, Ohio *

Big Joe (mascot) Big Joe () is the mascot of the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). The mascot was introduced in February 2014, prior to the 2014 CFL season. The Redblacks launched a contest to provide a name to the mascot. When originally nam ...

, the mascot of the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League * Big Joe (dinosaur), the most complete and best-preserved Allosaurus fossil known to date * Big Joe,

Robert Een Robert Een (born 1952) is an American composer, cellist, and vocalist. Career Known for his use of extended vocal and cello techniques, Een has recorded eight albums of his compositions and scored several films. He received Bessie Awards for mus ...

's band * ''Big Joe'', a novel by

Samuel R. Delany Samuel R. "Chip" Delany (, ; born April 1, 1942) is an American writer and literary critic. His work includes fiction (especially science fiction), memoir, criticism, and essays on science fiction, literature, sexual orientation, sexuality, and ...

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