Joseph Johnson

Joseph Johnson may refer to:

  • Joseph Johnson (publisher) (1738–1809), London bookseller
  • Joseph Johnson (Virginia politician) (1785–1877), U.S. Representative and Governor of Virginia
  • Joseph Johnson (watch maker) (died 1851), watchmaker from Liverpool
  • Joseph Johnson (FDNY Commissioner) (appointed 1911), American fire department commissioner
  • Joseph Johnson (cricketer) (1916–2011), English cricketer
  • Joseph B. Johnson (1893–1986), Governor of Vermont
  • Joseph E. Johnson (1906–1990), American government official
  • Joseph Ellis Johnson (1817–1882), American newspaper publisher
  • Joseph Forsyth Johnson (1840–1906), English landscape architect
  • Joseph French Johnson (1853–1925), American economist
  • Joseph I. Johnson (1914–1940), WWII RAF aviatior
  • Joseph McMillan Johnson (1912–1990), American movie art director
  • Joseph P. Johnson (born 1931), Virginia state delegate
  • Joseph Travis Johnson (1858–1919), U.S. federal judge
  • Joseph T. Johnson (1858–1919), U.S. Representative from South Carolina
  • J. M. Johnson (Joseph Modupe Johnson, 1911–1987), Nigerian politician
  • Jo Johnson (born 1971), columnist and British MP for Orpington
  • Billy Johnson (Mormon) (born Joseph William Billy Johnson, 1934), leader and missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ghana
  • Smokey Johnson, New Orleans jazz musician
  • Charles Leroux (Joseph Johnson, 1856–1889), American balloonist and parachutist
  • Joseph Johnson (murderer) (died 1964), American murderer executed by the state of Texas
  • Joseph Johnson (soldier), an American soldier, killed in Afghanistan, whose memory was used in an attack ad against Bridget McCormack

Famous quotes containing the words joseph and/or johnson:

    “The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly—because if they don’t speak fast nobody will listen to them.”
    —Michael Caine [Maurice Joseph Micklewhite] (b. 1933)

    “Yet, when the city sleeps;
    When all the cries are still:
    The stars and heavenly deeps
    Work out a perfect will.”
    —Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867–1902)