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:

    “We saw a pair of moose-horns on the shore, and I asked Joe if a moose had shed them; but he said there was a head attached to them, and I knew that they did not shed their heads more than once in their lives.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The story is told of a man who, seeing one of the thoroughbred stables for the first time, suddenly removed his hat and said in awed tones, “My Lord! The cathedral of the horse.””
    —For the State of Kentucky, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)