Jozef or Józef is a
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Polish
Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles
Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ...
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Slovak version of masculine given name
Joseph
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...
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Józef Beck
Józef Beck (; 4 October 1894 – 5 June 1944) was a Polish statesman who served the Second Republic of Poland as a diplomat and military officer. A close associate of Józef Piłsudski, Beck is most famous for being Polish foreign minister in ...
(1894–1944), Polish foreign minister in the 1930s
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Józef Bem
Józef Zachariasz Bem ( hu, Bem József, tr, Murat Pasha; March 14, 1794 – December 10, 1850) was a Polish engineer and general, an Ottoman pasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary, and a figure intertwined with other European patriot ...
(1794–1850), Polish general, Ottoman pasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary
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Józef Bilczewski
Józef Bilczewski (26 April 1860 – 20 March 1923) was a Polish Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Lviv from 1900 until his death. He served as a theological and dogmatics professor in the Lviv college after himself havin ...
(1860–1923), Polish Catholic archbishop and saint
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Józef Brandt
Józef Brandt (1841 in Szczebrzeszyn – 1915 in Radom) was a Polish painter, a representative of the Munich School, best known for his paintings of battles.
Life
Brandt studied in Warsaw in the school of J.N. Leszczynski and at the Noblemen's ...
(1841–1915), Polish painter
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Jozef M.L.T. Cals (1914–1971), Dutch Prime Minister
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Józef Marian Chełmoński
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...
(1849–1914), Polish painter
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Jozef Chovanec
Jozef Chovanec (born 7 March 1960) is a Czech former professional football player and manager.
Playing career
As a player, Chovanec spent almost his whole career at Sparta Prague. In 1988, he moved to the Netherlands, to play briefly for PSV E ...
(born 1960), Slovak footballer
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Jozef De Kesel
Jozef De Kesel (born 17 June 1947) is a Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been a cardinal since 2016 and Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels since 2015. He served as Bishop of Bruges from 2010 to 2015.
Early life
De Kesel was b ...
(born 1947), Belgian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
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Jozef De Veuster (1840–1889), Belgian missionary better known as Father Damien
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Józef Elsner (1769–1854), Silesian composer, music teacher, and music theoretician
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Jozef Gabčík
Jozef Gabčík (; 8 April 1912 – 18 June 1942) was a Slovak soldier in the Czechoslovak Army involved in the Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of acting ''Reichsprotektor'' (Imperial-Protector) of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, ...
(1912–1942), Slovak soldier in the Czechoslovak army involved in Operation Anthropoid
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Jozef A.A. Geeraerts (1930–2015), Belgian writer
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Józef Grudzień
Józef Grudzień (1 April 1939 – 17 June 2017) was a Polish boxer.
Grudzień was born 1 April 1939 in Piasek Wielki, Poland, which is near Busko-Zdrój. He won two medals at the Olympic Games: gold in the Lightweight division at Toky ...
(born 1939), Polish boxer and Olympic champion
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Józef Kazimierz Hofmann (1876–1957), Polish American pianist, composer, and inventor
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Jozef Israëls
Jozef Israëls (27 January 1824 – 12 August 1911) was a Dutch painter. He was a leading member of the group of landscape painters referred to as the Hague School and, during his lifetime, "the most respected Dutch artist of the second half o ...
(1824–1911), Dutch painter
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Józef Klotz (1900–1941), Polish footballer
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Jozef Lenárt
Jozef Lenárt (3 April 1923 – 11 February 2004) was a Slovak politician who was the prime minister of Czechoslovakia from 1963 to 1968.
Life and career
Born in Liptovská Porúbka, Slovakia, he graduated from a chemistry high school and worke ...
(1923–2004), Slovak Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia 1963–68
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Józef Lustgarten
Józef Lustgarten (1 November 1889, Krakow - 22 September 1973, Kraków) was a Polish Jewish footballer.
Born in Cracow, he was Jewish. He represented Cracovia. He also represented Poland in international matches. He was the first manager of t ...
(1899–1973), Polish footballer
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Jozef Moravčík
Jozef Moravčík (born 19 March 1945) is a Slovak diplomat and political figure
A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and crea ...
(born 1945), Slovak diplomat and politician, Prime Minister of Slovakia in 1994
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Jozef Teodor Mousson
Jozef Teodor Mousson (; 15 December 1887 – 6 November 1946) was a Slovak Impressionist painter.
Born in a Hungarian village called Hőgyész to a family of a French origin, he moved to Michalovce, Slovakia in 1911, where he stayed for anothe ...
(1887–1946), Slovak Impressionist painter
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Jozef Murgaš
Jozef Murgaš (English Joseph Murgas) (17 February 1864 – 11 May 1929) was a Slovak inventor, architect, botanist, painter and Roman Catholic priest. He contributed to wireless telegraphy and helped in the development of mobile communicati ...
(1864–1929), Slovak inventor, architect, botanist, painter, and priest
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Jozef Peeters
Jozef Peeters (1895–1960) was a Belgian painter, engraver and graphic artist.
In 1913, Jozef Peeters attended for a short time the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts, but was mainly interested by his own experiments. In 1914 he started painti ...
(1895–1960), Belgian painter
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Józef Piłsudski
Józef Klemens Piłsudski (; 5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Naczelnik państwa, Chief of State (1918–1922) and Marshal of Poland, First Marshal of Second Polish Republic, Poland (from 1920). He was ...
(1867–1935), Polish head of state and commander-in-chief of the armed forces
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Józef Pińkowski
Józef Pińkowski (; 17 April 1929 – 8 November 2000) was a Polish Communist politician who served as 51st Prime Minister of Poland from 1980 to 1981.
By profession Pińkowski was an economist. In 1971 he became a member of the central commi ...
(1929–2000), Polish Communist politician, Prime Minister from 1980 to 1981
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Józef Poniatowski
Prince Józef Antoni Poniatowski (; 7 May 1763 – 19 October 1813) was a Polish general, minister of war and army chief, who became a Marshal of the French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.
A nephew of king Stanislaus Augustus of Poland (), ...
(1763–1813), Polish political and military leader
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Jozef Pribilinec
Jozef Pribilinec (; born 6 July 1960) is a Slovak track and field athlete who mainly competed in racewalking. He was born in Kopernica. Pribilinec competed for the former Czechoslovakia at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea ...
(born 1960), Slovak racewalker
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Józef Rotblat (1908–2005), Polish physicist
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Józef Szajba (1910–1945), Polish sailor
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Józef Szmidt (born 1935), Polish retired triple jumper, world record holder and twice Olympic champion
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Jozef Stümpel
Jozef Stümpel (born 20 July 1972) is a Slovak former professional ice hockey centre. He played in the National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins, Los Angeles Kings, and Florida Panthers between 1992 and 2008. Internationally Stümpel played ...
(born 1972), Slovak former National Hockey League player
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Jozef Tiso
Jozef Gašpar Tiso (; hu, Tiszó József; 13 October 1887 – 18 April 1947) was a Slovak politician and Roman Catholic priest who served as president of the Slovak Republic, a client state of Nazi Germany during World War II, from 1939 to 194 ...
(1887–1947), Slovak priest and puppet head of state of Slovakia from 1939 to 1945 executed for war crimes
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Jozef Tomko
Jozef Tomko (11 March 1924 – 8 August 2022) was a Slovak prelate of the Catholic Church who held positions in the Roman Curia from 1962 until he retired in 2007. He was prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples from 1985 ...
(1924–2022), Slovak Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
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Jozef Van Roey (1874–1961), Belgian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
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Jozef Vengloš (born 1936), Slovak football coach
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Józef Andrzej Załuski (1702–1774), Polish Bishop of Kiev and bibliophile
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Joseph
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...
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Josef
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József
József () is a Hungarian masculine given name. It is the Hungarian name equivalent to Joseph.
Notable people bearing this name include:
* József Braun (also known as József Barna; 1901–1943), Hungarian Olympic footballer
* József Cse ...
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