Joseph Murphy may refer to:
- Joseph Murphy (author) (1898–1981), author and lecturer on the subconscious
- Joseph Murphy (equestrian), Irish equestrian
- Joe Murphy (Irish republican) (1895–1920), hunger striker
- Joseph C. Murphy (1907–1987), Michigan State Representative
- Joseph P. Murphy (1899–?), Wisconsin State Assemblyman
- Joseph R. Murphy (born 1947), documentary film maker
- Joe Murphy (ice hockey) (born 1967), Canadian ice hockey player
- Joseph Murphy (Irish politician), Irish independent politician who represented Dublin County, 1927–32
- Joseph Warner Murphy (1892–1977), Canadian Member of Parliament
- Joey Murphy, screenwriter and producer
- Joe Murphy (American football) (1897–?), former Texas A&M University–Commerce head football coach
- Joe Murphy (baseball) (1866–1951), pitcher for Major League Baseball
- Joe Murphy (footballer born 1981), Irish footballer, playing for Coventry City
- Joe Murphy (footballer born 1873) (1873–?), English footballer, who played for Hibernian, Stoke City, Arsenal and Raith Rovers
- Joe Murphy (hurler) (born 1947), Irish retired hurler
- Joe Murphy (Australian footballer) (1931–1985), Australian rules footballer
Famous quotes containing the words joe and/or murphy:
“While we were thus engaged in the twilight, we heard faintly, from far down the stream, what sounded like two strokes of a woodchopper’s axe, echoing dully through the grim solitude.... When we told Joe of this, he exclaimed, “By George, I’ll bet that was a moose! They make a noise like that.” These sounds affected us strangely, and by their very resemblance to a familiar one, where they probably had so different an origin, enhanced the impression of solitude and wildness.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the “Naught is more real ...” and the “Ubi nihil vales ...” both already in Murphy and neither very rational.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)