Joe Williams

Joe Williams may refer to:

  • Big Joe Williams (1903–1982), Delta blues singer
  • Cyclone Joe Williams (1886–1951), Negro Leagues baseball pitcher, a.k.a. "Smokey Joe" Williams
  • Joseph G. Williams (born 1920), country music singer and songwriter
  • Joe Williams (American football) (1896–?), American football fullback for the Canton Bulldogs and the New York Giants
  • Joe Williams (running back) (born 1947), former NFL running back
  • Joe Williams (basketball), American basketball coach at Jacksonville, Furman, and Florida State universities
  • Joe Williams (Cook Islands politician), former Prime Minister of the Cook Islands
  • Joe Williams (English footballer) (1873–?), English footballer
  • Joe Williams (film critic), film critic for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • Joe Williams (Irish footballer) (1907–1987), Irish football player
  • Joe Williams (jazz singer) (1918–1999), achieved prominence in the late 1950s
  • Joe Williams (Joedelta) (born 1965), software developer
  • Joe Williams (Ohio politician), former member of the Ohio House of Representatives
  • Joe Williams (rugby league) (born 1983), Australian rugby league player for the Bulldogs National Rugby League team

Famous quotes containing the words joe and/or williams:

    “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)

    “What is more pretentiously
    useless
    or about which
    we more pride ourselves?
    It leads as often as not
    to our undoing.”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)