Józef is a Polish variant of the masculine given name

Joseph Joseph is a common male name, derived from the Hebrew (). "Joseph" is used, along with " Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic count ...

Art

Józef Chełmoński Józef Marian Chełmoński (7 November 1849 – 6 April 1914) was a Polish painter of the Realism (art movement), realist school with roots in the historical and social context of the late Romanticism in Poland, Romantic period in partitioned Pol ...

(1849-1914), Polish painter * Józef Gosławski (1908-1963), Polish sculptor

Clergy

Józef Glemp Józef Glemp (18 December 192923 January 2013) was a Polish Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was List of bishops and archbishops of Warsaw, Archbishop of Warsaw from 1981 to 2006, and was elevated to the cardinalate ...

(1929-2013), Polish cardinal * Józef Kowalski (1911-1942), Polish priest * Józef Milik (1922-2006), Polish priest and biblical scholar * Józef Tischner (1931-2000), Polish priest * Józef Andrzej Załuski (1702-1774), Polish priest and Bishop of Kyiv * Józef Życiński (1948-2011), Polish archbishop

Literature

* Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński (1748-1826), Polish novelist and poet * Józef Wybicki (1747-1822), Polish poet

Military

Józef Bem Józef Zachariasz Bem (, ; 14 March 1794 – 10 December 1850) was a Polish engineer and general, an Ottoman pasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary, and a figure intertwined with other European patriotic movements. Like Tadeusz Kościus ...

(1794-1850), Polish general and engineer * Józef Grzesiak (1900-1975), Polish resistance member and scoutmaster *

Józef Haller Józef Haller (''de Hallenburg''; 13 August 1873 – 4 June 1960) was a Polish lieutenant general and legionary in the Polish Legions during the First World War. He was a harcmistrz (the highest Scouting instructor rank in Poland), the p ...

(1873-1960), Polish general * Józef Piotrowski (1840-1923), Polish participant in the

January Uprising The January Uprising was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at putting an end to Russian occupation of part of Poland and regaining independence. It began on 22 January 1863 and continued until the last i ...

Józef Poniatowski Prince Józef Antoni Poniatowski (; 7 May 1763 – 19 October 1813) was a Polish general, minister of war and army chief, who became a Marshal of the French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. A nephew of the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lit ...

(1763-1813), Polish general * Józef Sowiński (1777-1831), Polish general * Józef Zając (1891-1963), Polish general and pilot

Politics

Józef Piotr Klim Józef Piotr Klim (born 19 October 1960 in Mońki) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005 getting 7815 votes in 24 – Białystok for Civic Platform The Civic Platform (, PO)The party is officially the Civic Pla ...

(born 1960), Polish politician *

Józef Kajetan Ossoliński Count Józef Kajetan Ossoliński (1758–15 April 1834) was a notable Polish szlachcic (nobleman) with a distinguished political career. He served as the Castellan of the Podlaskie Voivodeship from 1790 and was a Senator Castellan of the Kingdom ...

(1758-1834), Polish castellan *

Józef Kanty Ossoliński Józef Jan Kanty Ossoliński (1707–1780) was a magnate in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Supported Stanisław Leszczyński, although abandoned him in 1733 when his cause looked worse and from 1735 he became a supporter of August III th ...

(1707-1780), Polish magnate *

Józef Piłsudski Józef Klemens Piłsudski (; 5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State (Poland), Chief of State (1918–1922) and first Marshal of Poland (from 1920). In the aftermath of World War I, he beca ...

(1867-1935), Polish chief of state

Science

* Józef Gosławski (1865-1904), Polish architect *

Józef Płoszko Józef Płoszko (, ; 1867–1931) was a Polish architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was the author of multiple architectural projects in Baku, Azerbaijan. Biography Józef Płoszko was born in 1867. He studied at the Russian ...

(1867-1931), Polish architect *

Józef Przytycki Józef Henryk Przytycki (, ; born 14 October 1953 in Warsaw, Poland), is a Polish mathematician specializing in the fields of knot theory and topology. Academic background Przytycki received a Master of Science degree in mathematics from Unive ...

(born 1953), Polish mathematician *

Józef Rostafiński Józef Tomasz Rostafiński (14 August 1850 – 5 May 1928) was a Polish botanist. Life He was born in Warsaw, and studied in Szkoła Główna Warszawska (1866–1869), Jena, Halle (Saale), Halle, and Strasbourg, where he achieved his PhD befor ...

(1850-1928), Polish botanist * Józef Zawadzki (1886-1951), Polish physical chemist

Sport

Józef Gąsienica-Sobczak Józef Gąsienica Sobczak (born 9 July 1934) is a Polish skier. He competed at the 1956, 1960, 1964 and the 1968 Winter Olympics The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games (), were a winter multi-sport event ...

(born 1934), Polish skier * Józef Grzesiak (1941-2020), Polish boxer *

Józef Młynarczyk Józef Młynarczyk (born 20 September 1953) is a Polish former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper. He is currently the goalkeeping coach for the Poland national under-21 fo ...

(born 1953), Polish footballer and coach *

Józef Stefański Józef Stefański (7 February 1908 – 21 December 1997) was a Polish cycle sport, cyclist. He competed in the Cycling at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race, individual and Cycling at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's t ...

(1908-1997), Polish cyclist * Józef Szmidt (1935-2024), Polish triple jumper * Józef Zapędzki (1929-2022), Polish sport shooter

Television and film

* Józef Kostecki (1922-1980), Polish actor

Other fields

* Józef Zawadzki (1781-1838), Polish publisher

Art