Joseph Wright may refer to:
- Joseph A. Wright (1810-1867), governor of Indiana
- Joseph C. Wright (1892-1985), American art director
- Joseph Robert Wright, Jr. (born 1938), Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget
- Joseph Wright (linguist) (1855-1930), English philologist
- Joseph Wright (rower) (1864–1950), Canadian rower
- Joseph Wright (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1930s for Great Britain, England, and Swinton
- Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797), English painter
- Joseph Wright (American Artist) (1756–1793), American portraitist
- Joseph Wright, Jr. (rower) (1906-1981), Canadian rower
- Joseph Wright (greyhound trainer) (1824-1908), greyhound trainer and father of Jack Wright (greyhound trainer), Joe Wright (greyhound trainer), Robert Kelsell Wright and Tom Wright (greyhound trainer)
Famous quotes containing the words joseph and/or wright:
“It is indeed typical that you Earth people refuse to believe in the superiority of any world but your own. Children looking into a magnifying glass, imagining the image you see is the image of your true size.”
—Franklin Coen. Joseph Newman. The Monitor (Douglas Spencer)
“... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)