Famous People with Name Joseph

Joseph Henry            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph Henry: was an American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. During his lifetime, he was considered one of the greatest American scientists since Benjamin Franklin. While building electromagnets, Henry discovered the electromagnetic phenomenon of self-inductance. He also discovered mutual inductance independently of Michael Faraday, though Faraday was the first to publish his results.[1][2] Henry's work on the electromagnetic relay was the basis of the electrical telegraph, jointly invented by Samuel Morse and Charles Wheatstone.

Joseph Story            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph Story: was an American lawyer and jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1811 to 1845. He is most remembered today for his opinions in Martin v. Hunter's Lessee and United States v. The Amistad.In November 1811, at the age of thirty-two, he became the youngest Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Judge Story continues to be the youngest-appointed Supreme Court Justice. Here he found a congenial home for the brilliance of his scholarship and the development and expression of his political philosophy.

Joseph Stella            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph Stella: was an Italian-born, American Futurist painter best known for his depictions of industrial America. He is associated with the American Precisionism movement of the 1910s-1940s. He was born in Muro Lucano, Italy but came to New York City in 1896. He studied at the Art Students League of New York under William Merritt Chase. His first paintings are Rembrandtesque depictions of city slum life. In 1908, he was commissioned for a series on industrial Pittsburgh later published in The Pittsburgh Survey.It was his return to Europe in 1909, and his first contact with modernism, that would truly mold his distinctive personal style.

Joseph Nechvatal            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph Nechvatal: a post-conceptual art digital artist and art theoretician who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses.His work in the early 1980s chiefly consisted of postminimalist gray graphite drawings that were often photomechanically enlarged.[1] During that period he was associated with the artist group Colab and helped establish the non-profit cultural space ABC No Rio. In 1983 he co-founded the avant-garde electronic art music audio project Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine.[2] In 1984, Nechvatal began work on an opera called XS: The Opera Opus (1984-5) with the no wave musical composer Rhys Chatham.[3]

Joseph Giunta            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph Giunta: was a Canadian painter whose career spanned over 70 years. He was born in Montreal and began painting at the age of 14. He studied the arts at the Monument National and at the Ecole des beaux-arts de Montréal. Giunta also studied with Adrien Hebert in 1925, Johnny Johnston in 1930, as well as in Boston, France and Italy. Throughout his career, Giunta's style evolved into 4 major styles:

Ronald Joseph            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ronald Joseph: was an American figure skater. Ronald and his younger sister Vivian Joseph began skating together as children, attended Highland Park High School, and competed for the Broadmoor Skating Club of Colorado.

Vivian Joseph            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Vivian Joseph: is a female American figure skater. Vivian and her older brother Ronald Joseph began skating together as children, attended Highland Park High School, and competed for the Broadmoor Skating Club of Colorado. In 1961 the pair won the Junior National Skatin

Cregan Joseph            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Cregan Joseph: is a field hockey player from Canada. Joseph started playing at age six. The resident of Scarborough, Ontario was selected to the Junior National Squad in 1998, and made his first appearance at the Men's National Team for the 2002 European Tour, when he s

Lawrence Joseph            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lawrence Joseph: is a former U.S. Congressman and university president. DeNardis was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on March 18, 1938; graduated from Hamden High School, Hamden, Connecticut, in 1956 and received a B.A. from Holy Cross College in 1960, an M.A. and a Ph.D.

George W. P. Joseph            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George W. P. Joseph: was an attorney and Republican politician in the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of California, his family relocated to Oregon when he was young. There he would practice law and serve in the Oregon State Senate. Joseph was elected to the Oregon State Senat