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José Santa José Fernando Santa (born November 12, 1970) is a retired football defender who was capped 25 times for Colombia between 1995 and 1998. He played two matches at the 1998 World Cup, and his club at that time was Atlético Nacional.
José Santacruz Londoño José "Chepe" Santacruz Londoño, or simply "Chepe" Santacruz, (1943 to March 5, 1996) was, after Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela and Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, considered the number three leader in the Cali Cartel, which at its height was said to supply 80% of the world's cocaine supply and have billions of dollars in annual income. Santacruz Londoño himself was said to be worth several billion dollars.
José Santana José Manuel Santana Silvestre (February 25, 1962), is the Executive Director of the Dominican Republic Presidential Commission of Science and Technology and Research Associate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Santana was born in Santo Domingo capital of the Dominican Republic, and is an economist specialist in technology and development.
José Santos José Santos (born April 26, 1961 in Concepcion, Chile) is an United States thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He first raced horses in his native Chile until moving to the United States in 1984 where he was the top money-winning jockey four years in a row from 1986 through 1989, winning the 1988 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey in the United States.
José Santos Guardiola General José Santos Guardiola (November 1, 1816 – January 11, 1862) was President of Honduras from February 17, 1856 to January 11, 1862, when he became the only President of Honduras to be assassinated while in office in a crime committed by his personal guard. He was born in 1816 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
José Sócrates José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa, GCIH (pron. IPA []; born in Portobut registered by his father in Vilar de Maçada], [[Alijó, 6 September 1957) is a Portuguese politician, secretary-general of the Socialist Party and the current prime minister of Portugal, since March 12, 2005.
José Sánchez José Sánchez, cousin of Santos Sánchez and Araña Sánchez, was a football player for the Argentine team Cañuelas our of Buenos Aires. He was the top-scorer of the 1972 season, scoring 73 goals by the end of the season.
José Sánchez del Río José Luis Sánchez del Río was a young Mexican Cristero who was put to death by government officials because he refused to give up his Catholic faith. He has been declared a martyr and was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI on November 20, 2005.
José Serrano (composer) José Serrano (Sueca, Valencia, 14 October 1873 - Madrid, 8 March 1941) was a Spanish composer of zarzuelas whose most famous works include La dolorosa ("The Pained One") and La canción del olvido ("The song of forgetting"). Serrano’s works tend to be simple popular theater but filled with dramatic emotion.
José Silva (parapsychologist) José Silva (August 11, 1914 - February 7, 1999) was a parapsychologist and author of the Silva Method and the Silva UltraMind ESP System, intended to help people increase their IQ, develop psychic skills, and to develop the ability to heal both themselves and others remotely, using forces unknown to science.
José Solís Folch de Cardona José Solís y Folch de Cardona, grande de España and knight of the Order of Santiago (February 4, 1716, Madrid—April 27, 1770) was a Spanish colonial administrator and viceroy of New Granada from November 24, 1753 to February 25, 1761.
José Soto José Alberto Soto Gómez (born January 11, 1970 in Lima) is a retired football defender from Peru, who obtained a total number of 75 international caps for his national team, in which he scored three goals. Nicknamed "Pepe" he made his debut on November 25, 1992 against Ecuador (1-1), and played his last international match for his native country in a World Cup Qualifier on September 9, 2003 against Chile (1-2), at age 33.
José Tadeo Monagas José Tadeo Monagas (October 28 1784 - November 18 1868) was President of Venezuela 1847-1851 and 1855-1858, and a hero of the Venezuelan Wars of Independece. This Monagas was one of the most unpopular presidents in Venezuelan history, distinguished by his nepotist and favoritist policies, his disregard for laws passed by Congress when he disagreed with them, and the amount of power he attributed to the Executive branch.
José Tartabull José Milages Tartabull Guzman (born November 27, 1938) was an Major League Baseball outfielder; his career lasted nine years, from 1962 to 1970. He played for the Kansas City A's, Boston Red Sox, and the Oakland A's all of the American League.
José Theodore José Nicholas Theodore (Born - September 13, 1976 in Laval, Quebec, Canada) is a French Canadian professional hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League who has played for the Montreal Canadiens and currently plays for the Colorado Avalanche.
José Thomás de Sousa Martins Dr José Thomás de Sousa Martins (7 March1843-19 August1897) was a doctor renowned for his work amongst the poor in Lisbon, Portugal. After his death, a secular cult has arisen around him in which he is thanked for "miraculous" cures.
José Tohá José Tohá González (born February 6, 1927 in Chillán – died March 15, 1974 in Santiago) was a Chilean journalist and Socialist politician. He was Salvador Allende's Interior minister and Defense minister.
José Tomás Sánchez José Tomás Sánchez (born March 17, 1920) is a Roman Catholic archbishop and Cardinal Priest from the Philippines. He was born in Pandan town in the island-province of Catanduanes and attended the seminary of the Holy Rosary in Naga City, where he obtained a doctorate in theology at the University of Santo Tomas of Manila.
José Tribolet José Tribolet (full name: José Manuel Nunes Salvador Tribolet) is a full professor of the Computer Engineering Department at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) of the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.
José Uribe José Altagracia González Uribe (January 21 1959 – December 8 2006) was a Dominican shortstop in Major League Baseball from 1984 until 1993. Most of his ten-year career was spent with the San Francisco Giants.
José Valentín José Antonio Valentín (born on October 12, 1969 in Manati, Puerto Rico) is a Major League Baseball second baseman who plays for the New York Mets.Previously he played with the Los Angeles Dodgers (2005), Chicago White Sox (2000–2004) and the Milwaukee Brewers (1992–1999).
José Vasconcelos José Vasconcelos (February 28 1882, Oaxaca, Oaxaca – June 30 1959, Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, thinker and politician of Native American and Portuguese ancestry. He married Serafina Miranda of Tlaxiaco in the state of Oaxaca in 1906.
José Víctor Ríos Rull José-Víctor Ríos-Rull is a macroeconomist born on the Canary Island of Tenerife, currently (2006) at the Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania. He is a student of the 2004 Nobel Laureate Edward C.
José Velásquez (footballer) José Manuel Velásquez Castillo (born June 4 1954 in Lima) is a retired football defender from Peru. He competed for the Peru national football team at the 1978 and 1982 FIFA World Cup, wearing the number six jersey.
José Verdú Nicolás José Verdú Nicolás also know as Toché is a Spanish football player who currently plays for Real Valladolid of the Spanish Segunda División on loan from Atlético de Madrid. He was born on the 1st of January, 1983, and is 23 years old.
José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage (1823, Funchal, Madeira - 1907, Lisbon, Portugal) was a Portuguese zoologist and politician. He was the curator of Zoology at the Museum of Natural History in Lisbon. He published numerous works on mammals, birds, and fishes. In the 1880's he became the Minister of the Navy and later the Minister for Foreign Affairs for Portugal. The zoology collection at the Lisbon Museum is called the Bocage Museum in his honor.
José Vicente Rangel José Vicente Rangel Vale (born on 10 July 1929 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan leftist politician. He ran for president three times in the 1970s and 1980s, and later supported Hugo Chávez, successively becoming foreign minister, defense minister, and vice-president in Chávez's government.
José Vidal José (Nicolas) Vidal (born April 3, 1940 in Batey Lechugas, Dominican Republic) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. He was signed by the San Francisco Giants as an amateur free agent before the 1958 season, and played for the Cleveland Indians (1966-1968) and Seattle Pilots (1969).
José Vidro José Vidro (born August 27, 1974 in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico) is a Major League Baseball player who currently plays second base for the Seattle Mariners. He is a switch hitter, going for average from the left and for power from the right.
José Villalonga Llorente José Villalonga Llorente ( born Córdoba, Spain, December 12 1919, died August 8 1973), commonly referred to as José Villalonga and also known as Pepe Villalonga, was a Spanish football manager during the 1950s and 1960s. He coached Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid and Spain, winning major trophies with all three.
José Villanueva José Villanueva is an amateur boxer from the Philippines who competed at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics in the Bantamweight (-54 kg) division winning the bronze medal in a lost bout in the semifinals.Olympic Movement's results database
José Villarrubia José Villarrubia (born in Madrid, Spain, November 17, 1961) is an artist who has done considerable work in the American comic book industry, particularly as a colorist. Villarrubia's fine art photography has been exhibited in the U.
José Watanabe José Watanabe, born in 1946 in Laredo, a large sugar cane farm in northern Peru, is widely recognized as one of the all-time major Peruvian poets. His father was a Japanese immigrant and his mother a Peruvian of Andean origin.
José Yves Limantour José Yves Limantour (1854-1935), Secretary of the Finance of Mexico from 1893 until the fall of the Porfirio Díaz regime in 1911. He is considered the political leader of the technocratic advisors to President Díaz known as Científicos who were educated and wanted expanded intellectualism and prosperity in Mexico, thus they supported the Diaz regime because of his support of the modernization of Mexico, yet they also wanted expanded freedom.
José Zardón José Antonio (Sanchez) Zardón (born May 20, 1923 in Havana, Cuba), is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who played for the Washington Senators in 1945. The 22-year-old rookie stood 6'0" and weighed 150 lbs.
José-Maria David José Maria David was born in France under the sign of the liberation on August 21st, 1944 near the forest of Gâvre. Specialist of the animal sculpture, his style is characterized by the speed of execution: he is able of creating a big size sculpture in four hours.
José, Prince of Brazil Joseph of Braganza, Prince of Brazil KGF (full name: José Francisco Xavier de Paula Domingos António Agostinho Anastácio de Bragança, pron. IPA []), (August 20 1761 - September 11 1788), was Duke of Braganza, Prince of Beira, Prince of Brazil and heir presumptive to the throne of Portugal as the oldest son of Queen Maria I of Portugal and her King consort Peter III of Portugal.
Josée Chouinard Josée Chouinard (born on August 21, 1969 in Rosemont, Quebec) is a Canadian figure skater. Chouinard was a strong technical skater (with impressive jumps and spins), skated well-choreographed programs, and was both attractive and relatively charismatic, which led many observers to predict she would become a figure skating sensation.
Josée Verner Josée Verner, PC, MP (born December 30, 1959 in Gatineau, Québec) is a Canadian politician. She represents the electoral district of Louis-Saint-Laurent in the Canadian House of Commons and is a minister in the Conservative cabinet.
Joscelin Verreuil In Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series, Joscelin Verreuil is a member of the Cassiline Brotherhood whom Anafiel Delaunay contracts to guard Phèdre. He is tall and well-proportioned, with clear blue eyes and wheat-colored hair that is generally caught in a club at the nape of his neck.
Jose "Pepi" Diaz Jose "Pepi" Diaz is a Cuban-American attorney from Miami, Florida who was a contestant on NBC's show The Apprentice 5 in 2006. He was part of team Synergy in Week 1, and was then the third person fired after his team lost while he was project manager.
Jose Abello Silva Jose Abello Silva (born 1945) was a top ranking member of the notorious MedellĂ­n Cartel. He was considered among the major drug traffickers in the Santa Marta region and the reputed chief of Caribbean coast operations on the cartel's behalf.
Jose Angel Llamas José Ángel Llamas Olmos (born 13 October 1966) is a Mexican actor best known for his roles of Pelluco and Rudolfo in Amor descarado. He has been married to Mara Croatto since 29 August 2004 and has one son, Rafael.
Jose Antonio Vidaurre Colonel José Antonio Vidaurre Garretón (December 22, 1798 - October 4, 1837) was a Chilean military officer who led a failed insurrection in 1837 that culminated in the assassination of minister Diego Portales.
Jose Antonio Yorba José Antonio Yorba (1746-1825), known also as Don José Antonio Yorba I, was one of the important early settlers of Spanish California (then known as Alta California). Born in San Sadurni de Noya in the Spanish province of Catalonia, Yorba first came to the New World as an officer in the Portola Expedition of 1769.
Jose ben Halafta Jose ben Halafta or Yose ben Halafta (Hebrew: יוסי בן חלפתא) was a Tanna of the fourth generation (2nd century CE). Jose was a student of Rabbi Akiva and was regarded as one of the foremost scholars of halakha and aggadah of his day.
Jose Baray Jose Baray Ramirez (1942-) is the oldest and most experienced painter/muralist of a colony of artists in the Copper Canyon area of northwestern Mexico. Born in Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua in 1942, Baray earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1969.
Jose Barraquer José Ignacio Barraquer (January 24, 1916; Barcelona, Spain – February 13, 1998) was a Spanish ophthalmologist known to many as "the father of modern refractive surgery". Barraquer invented the cryolathe and microkeratome and developed the surgical procedures of keratomileusis and keratophakia.
Jose Ceda Jose Ceda is a Major League Baseball player in the Chicago Cubs minor league system, traded from the San Diego Padres for Todd Walker on July 31, 2006. In 2005, Ceda, a right-handed pitcher, had a record of 4 wins and 2 losses in 13 games for the Padres' Dominican Summer League Team, while posting an impressive 1.
Jose Clavijo y Fajardo José Clavijo y Fajardo (1730-1806), Spanish publicist, was born at Lanzarote (Canary islands) in 1730. He settled in Madrid, became editor of El Pensador, and by his campaign against the public performance of autos sacramentales, secured their prohibition in 1765.
Jose F. Valdez Private First Class Jose F. Valdez (January 3, 1925-February 17, 1945) was a United States Army soldier who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor — the United States' highest military decoration for his actions near Rosenkrantz, France during World War II.
Jose Gaspar José Gaspar, known by his nickname Gasparilla (supposedly lived c. 1756 – 1821), was a purported Spanish pirate, the "last of the Buccaneers," who is claimed to have raided the west coast of Florida during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Jose Gonzalez (wrestler) Jose Huertas Gonzalez, better known as Invader #1 to the wrestling fans in Puerto Rico is a pro wrestler that wrestled in the United States for the WWE and around the world especially in Puerto Rico since 1973 for both the World Wrestling Council & the International Wrestling Association.
Jose Herrera (disambiguation) * José Concepción Herrera Ontiveros - best known as José Herrera [er-REH-rah], and nicknamed "Loco", is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter who played for the Houston Astros (1967-68) and Montreal Expos (1969-70).
Jose Chung Jose Chung is a fictional writer created by Darin Morgan, who appears in The X-Files episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" and the Millennium episode "Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense". Chung is played by Charles Nelson Reilly, and is the author of both the titular works in both episodes.
Jose Chung's "From Outer Space" "Jose Chung's "From Outer Space"" is the twentieth episode of the third season of The X-Files. When a couple claims to have been abducted by aliens, Agents Mulder and Scully try to get at the truth but everyone has a different version of the story, including the "aliens" themselves.
Jose Iturbi José Iturbi (born 28 November 1895 in Valencia, Spain; died 28 June 1980 in Los Angeles) was a Spanish conductor and pianist. He appeared in several Hollywood films of the 1940s, notably playing himself in the 1943 musical, Thousands Cheer.
Jose Landi-Jons Jose "Pele" Landi-Jons is a Brazillian Mixed Martial Artist. He was formerly a member of the Chute Boxe Academy, however he eventually left as a result of a conflict over his training of fellow Chute Boxe student Murilo "Ninja" Rua.
Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda Jose Luis de JesĂşs Miranda claims himself to be "Jesus in the flesh" in His second manifestation. His group, Growing in Grace, has been identified as a cult by sources including cult expert Rick Ross and Daniel Alvarez, professor of religion at Florida International University] Notes on the Miranda's TV segments==
Jose Miguel Arroyo Jose Miguel Tuason Arroyo (born June 27, 1946) is the husband of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the current President of the Philippines and is the current First Gentleman of the Philippines, being the spouse of a female President of the Philippines. His major projects as First Gentleman were the funding of the training of Philippine athletes for the 2005 Southeast Asian Games held in the Philippines.
Jose Nepumuceno Jose Nepomuceno was born on 15 May 1893, and was still a child when the American-Spanish war resulted in the Philippines becoming an American colony in 1898, after more than three centuries of Spanish rule. One year earlier, January 1, 1897, the Philippines experienced its first film screening, as a Spanish man, Pertierra, introduced the chromophotograph.
Jose O'Callaghan Father Jose O'Callaghan, SJ, a papyrologist, along with Carsten Peter Thiede, have proposed that lettering on a postage stamp-sized papyrus fragment found in a cave at Qumran, 7Q5, represents a fragment from the Gospel of Mark.
Jose Pacheco José Francisco Pacheco is a Portuguese educator who pioneered a school called Escola da Ponte(Bridge School), in Vila das Aves, Portugal. He is also a published writer, with some books and a wide range of articles.
Jose Reyes (catcher) Jose Reyes (born February 26, 1983 in Barahona, Dominican Republic) is a Major League Baseball catcher, currently on the Chicago Cubs extended roster. He made his major league debut on September 13, 2006 against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Jose Sanchez Zolliker Jose Sanchez Zolliker (b.March 15, 1976 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican writer (author), who has published several short stories and articles in different Mexican magazines and newspapers (mostly independent media).
Jose Veras Jose Romero Veras (born October 20, 1980 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a major league relief pitcher for the New York Yankees.Veras was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays] in [[1998.
Joseba Elosegi Joseba Elosegi was a basque nationalist who self-immolated trying to embrace dictator Franco during a pelota game in San Sebastian September 19 1970. He did it as a protest against the fascist Bombing of Gernika in 1937.
Josef Albers Josef Albers (March 19 1888 – March 26 1976) was a German artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century.
Josef Bachmann Josef Erwin Bachmann (1945 - February 24, 1970) was a German unskilled worker. He became widely known in Germany for his assassination attempt on the leader of the German student movement, Rudi Dutschke, firing three bullets at him, on April 11, 1968.
Josef Bürckel Joseph Bürckel (March 30, 1895, Lingenfeld, Germersheim—September 28, 1944, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Rhineland-Palatinate) was a German National Socialist politician, a member of the National Socialist Reichstag.
Josef Berger Josef Berger, or Joseph Isadore Berger (May 12, 1903 - November 1971), was an American journalist and speechwriter. Berger was born in Denver, Colorado in 1903 and graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1924.
Josef Bican Josef "Pepi" Bican (September 25, 1913 - December 12, 2001) was an Austrian and Czech football forward, one of the world's most prolific goalscorers of all-time. He was a member of the Austrian Wunderteam of the 1930s, and was a five-time European Golden Boot winner.
Josef Bradl Josef Bradl (nicknamed Sepp, January 8, 1918-March 3, 1982) was an Austrian ski jumper who competed during the 1930's and 1950's. He won the ski jumping gold medal at the 1939 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Zakopane while competing under Nazi Germany in the wake of Austria being annexed in late 1938.
Josef Emanuel Hilscher Josef Emanuel Hilscher (22 January 1806 -2 November 1837) was born in Austria . He became a soldier, and rose to quartermaster, but he is remembered for his own exuberant poems, and highly regarded translations into German of Byron's poems.
Josef Franke Josef Franke (born March 12, 1876, Bochum, Germany, died January 16, 1944, Gelsenkirchen, Germany) was a German Expressionist architect. He created a number of sacred and secular buildings, in the Ruhrgebiet, particularly in Gelsenkirchen.
Josef Gingold Josef Gingold (1909-1995) was born in Brest-Litovsk, Poland and emigrated to the United States in 1920 where he studied violin with Vladimir Graffman in New York City and then moved to Belgium for several years to study with master violinist Eugène Ysaÿe. In 1937 he won a spot in the NBC Symphony Orchestra with Arturo Toscanini as its conductor, then was the concertmaster (and occasional soloist) of the Detroit Orchestra, and later was the Cleveland Orchestra's concertmaster under conductor George Szell.
Josef Hickersberger Josef Hickersberger (born April 27, 1948 in Amstetten, Austria) is a former professional football player and former coach of the Austrian soccer cult-club SK Rapid Wien. Since January 2006 he is coaching the Austrian national team.
Josef Hora Josef Hora (1891-1945) was one of the most important figures in twentieth century Czech literature. He is famous mainly as a poet, but he also won recognition as a prose writer, literary critic, translator from Russian, German and Serbo-Croatian and as a literary and political publicist.
Josef Issels Josef Issels (November 21, 1907 - February 11, 1998) was a german physician and known for having developed an alternative cancer therapy, the Issels treatment, that caused a great amount of controversy among medical professionals. He claimed to cure cancer patients who had otherwise been declared incurable by conventional cancer treatments.
Josef Jakobs Corporal Josef Jakobs (30 June 1898 – 14 August 1941) a German agent, who was shot by firing squad in the Tower of London during the Second World War after conviction under the Treachery Act of 1940. He was the last person to be executed in the Tower.
Josef Jindřich Šechtl Josef Jindřich Šechtl (1877 Tábor – 1954 Tábor) was a Czech photographer who specialized in photojournalism and portrait photography. When his father, photographer Ignác Šechtl died, Josef inherited the photographic studios Šechtl and Voseček.
Josef Joffe Josef Joffe (born March 15, 1944) is editor and publisher of Die Zeit, a weekly German newspaper, the Marc and Anita Abramowitz Fellow in International Relations at the Hoover Institution, a fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and adjunct professor of political science at Stanford University, and an associate of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University.
Josef Jungmann Josef Jungmann (born 16th July 1773 in Hudlice, near Beroun, died 14th November 1847 in Prague) was a Czech poet and linguist, and a leading figure of the Czech National Revival. Together with Josef DobrovskĂ˝, he is considered to be a creator of the modern Czech language.
Josef Kammhuber General Josef Kammhuber (August 19, 1896–January 25, 1986) was the first General of the Night Fighters in the Luftwaffe during World War II. He is credited with setting up the first truly successful night fighter defense system, the so-called Kammhuber Line, but a detailed knowledge of the system provided to the RAF by British military intelligence allowed them to render it ineffective.
Josef Klaus Josef Klaus (August 15 1910, Kötschach-Mauthen, Carinthia - July 26 2001, Vienna) was an Austrian Christian/Conservative politician of the Peoples Party (ÖVP) and the Federal Chancellor (Bundeskanzler) from 1964 to 1970.
Josef Knap Josef Knap (July 28, 1900, Podůlší by Jičín – December 13, 1973, Prague) was a Czech writer, poet, literature-reviewer and one of the most popular Catholic ruralistic writers (along with Jan Čep and František Křelina).
Josef Kramer Josef Kramer (November 10, 1906 – December 13, 1945) was the Commandant of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Dubbed "The Beast of Belsen" by camp inmates; he was one of the most notorious of Nazi war criminals, directly responsible for the deaths of many thousands of people.
Josef Lanner Josef Lanner (12 April 1801 – 14 April 1843) was an Austrian dance music composer. He was best remembered as one of the earliest Viennese composers to reform the waltz from a simple peasant dance to something that even the highest society could enjoy, either as an accompaniment to the dance or for the music's own sake.
Josef Ludwig von Armansperg Josef Ludwig, Graf von Armansperg (Κόμης Ιωσήφ Λουδοβίκος Άρμανσμπεργκ) (28 February 1787 - 3 April 1853) served as the Interior and Finance Minister (1826-1828) and Foreign and Finance Minister (1828-1831) under King Ludwig I of Bavaria in the government of Bavaria. He was a liberal monarchist and an economic conservative who promoted the unification of Germany with his attempts at a tariff union.
Josef Maleček Josef Maleček (June 18 1903 in Prague – September 26 1982 Bay Port, USA) was a Czechoslovakian hockey player, very successful during period between World Wars. After communist takeover in Czechoslovakia (1948) he emigrated the country.
Josef Marha Josef Marha (born June 2, 1976 in Havlickuv Brod, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech professional ice hockey player who currently plays in Switzerland's Nationalliga A for HC Davos. Marha played in the National Hockey League for the Colorado Avalanche, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and the Chicago Blackhawks, playing 159 regular season games goals 21 goals and 32 assists for 53 points, picking up 32 penalty minutes.
Josef Maria Klumb Josef Maria Klumb (born 1962) is a German musician who has been a member of a number of punk rock, industrial, and darkwave bands in the "dark culture". He is best known for his work with Forthcoming Fire and Von Thronstahl.
Josef Matthias Hauer Josef Mattias Hauer (March 19, 1883 – September 22, 1959) was an Austrian composer and music theorist. He is most famous for developing, independent of and years before Arnold Schoenberg, a method for composing with all 12 notes of the chromatic scale.
Josef Melichar Josef Melichar IV (Born on January 20, 1979 in Ceske Budejovice, Czechoslovakia) is an NHL defenseman for the Pittsburgh Penguins. He is the longest-tenured Penguin, and he is one of the team's three draft picks from the 1990's who still remain in the organization, along with Rob Scuderi and Ryan Malone.
Josef Mengele Dr Josef Mengele (March 16 1911 – February 7, 1979) was a German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. He gained notoriety chiefly for being one of the SS physicians who supervised the selection of arriving transports of prisoners, determining who was to be killed and who was to become a forced labourer, and for performing human experiments of dubious scientific value on camp inmates, amongst whom Mengele was known as the Angel of Death.
Josef Mik Josef Mik, also Joseph (23 March 1839 -13 October 1900) was a Czech entomologist mainly interested in Diptera. He described many new species and made significant contributions to knowledge of the Diptera of Central Europe.
Josef Mikl Josef Mikl born August 8, 1929, Vienna, Austria was an Austrian painter who received his first training at the Graphischen Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt. Studied at the prominent Viennese academy from 1949-1956 under Josef Dobrowsky.
Josef Myrow Josef Myrow (1910 - 1987) was a Russian-born composer known for his work in film scores n the 1940s and 50s. He was nominated for an Academy Award twice: in 1947 for the song 'You Do' from the film "Mother Wore Tights" and in 1950 for 'Wilhelmina' from the film "Wabash Avenue".
Josef Obajdin Jozef Obajdin (born on November 7 1970) is a Czech footballer (striker) playing currently for Wisła Płock. The best years of his career he spent in Sparta Prague where he was many times a champion of the Czech Republic .
Josef Peukert Josef Peukert (1855 - 1910)was an Austrian Anarchist. he was involved in distributing Freiheit published by Johann Most, but became increasingly critical of Most as Social-Revolutionist as opposed to an anarchist.

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