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:
“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)
“The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)