Jozef

Jozef or Józef is a Dutch, Polish and Slovak version of masculine given name Joseph. A selection of people with that name follows. For a comprehensive list see All pages beginning with "Jozef" and All pages beginning with "Józef"..
Jozef Adamec (born 1942), Slovak footballer
Jozef Barmoš (born 1954), Slovak footballer
Józef Beck (1894-1944), Polish foreign minister in the 1930s
Józef Bem (1794-1850), Polish general, Ottoman pasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary
Józef Bilczewski (1860–1923), Polish Catholic archbishop and saint
Józef Brandt (1841–1915), Polish painter
Jozef M.L.T. Cals (1914–1971), Dutch Prime Minister
Józef Marian Chełmoński (1849–1914), Polish painter
Jozef Chovanec (born 1960), Slovak footballer
Jozef De Kesel (born 1947), Belgian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Jozef De Veuster (1840–1889), Belgian missionary better known as Father Damien
Józef Elsner (1769–1854), Silesian composer, music teacher, and music theoretician
Jozef Gabčík (1912–1942), Slovak soldier in the Czechoslovak army involved in Operation Anthropoid
Jozef A.A. Geeraerts (1930–2015), Belgian writer
Józef Grudzień (born 1939), Polish boxer and Olympic champion
Józef Kazimierz Hofmann (1876–1957), Polish American pianist, composer, and inventor
Jozef Israëls (1824–1911), Dutch painter
Jozef Lenárt (1923–2004), Slovak Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia 1963–68
Jozef Moravčík (born 1945), Slovak diplomat and politician, Prime Minister of Slovakia in 1994
Jozef Teodor Mousson (1887–1946), Slovak Impressionist painter
Jozef Murgaš (1864–1929), Slovak inventor, architect, botanist, painter, and priest
Józef Piłsudski (1867-1935), Polish head of state and commander-in-chief of the armed forces
Józef Pińkowski (1929-2000), Polish Communist politician, Prime Minister from 1980 to 1981
Józef Poniatowski (1763-1813), Polish political and military leader
Jozef Pribilinec (born 1960), Slovak racewalker
Józef Rotblat (1908–2005), Polish physicist
Józef Szmidt (born 1935), Polish retired triple jumper, world record holder and twice Olympic champion
Jozef Stümpel (born 1972), Slovak former National Hockey League player
Jozef Tiso (1887–1947), Slovak priest and puppet head of state of Slovakia from 1939 to 1945
Jozef Tomko (born 1924), Slovak Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Jozef Van Roey (1874–1961), Belgian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Jozef Vengloš (born 1936), Slovak football coach
Józef Andrzej Załuski (1702–1774), Polish Bishop of Kiev and bibliophile

Joseph is a masculine given name originating from Hebrew, recorded in the Hebrew Bible, as יוֹסֵף‎, Standard Hebrew Yossef, Tiberian Hebrew and Aramaic Yôsēp̄. The name can be translated from Hebrew יוסף יהוה‎ yosef YHWH as signifying "Yahweh/Jehovah shall increase/add".
The name appears in the book of Genesis: Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, and known in the Jewish Bible as Yossef ben-Yaakov.
In the New Testament there are two others named Joseph: 1) Joseph, the husband of Mary, the mother of Jesus; and, 2) Joseph of Arimathea, a secret disciple of Jesus who supplied the tomb in which Jesus was buried.
The form "Joseph" is used mostly in English, French and German-speaking countries. In Persian the name is called "yousef" or "یوسف" . In Arabic, including in the Qur'an, the name is spelled يوسف or Yūsuf. The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and Joseph was one of the two names, along with Robert, to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century.

He will enlarge, he will add.