Joe Public

Joe Public may refer to:

  • A generic name used informally to denote a hypothetical member of society deemed a "common man" in the United Kingdom, known as John Q. Public in the United States.
  • Joe Public (band), a new jack swing musical group.*
    • Joe Public (album), the debut album by the new jack swing group.
  • Joe Public F.C., a football (soccer) club based in Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago.
  • Joe Public, a song by The Rutles on their album The Rutles Archaeology.

Famous quotes containing the words joe and/or public:

    “I do wish that as long as they are translating the thing, they would go right on ahead, while they’re at it, and translate Fedor Vasilyevich Protosov and Georgei Dmitrievich Abreskov and Ivan Petrovich Alexandrov into Joe and Harry and Fred.”
    —Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

    “It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.”
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)