In honor of the president-elect, let’s have this time in First Names First the name Joe! Often short for Joseph. Pick one of the names below, follow the Wikipedia link to read about the person, and then see what if anything he could contribute your life with. Inspiration, passion, enlightenment, encouragement, empathy, etc. Or just thoughts for the day.
Give a couple of minutes of your life to this. Lives lived may all have something worthwhile to tell us – let them!
Shoeless Joe Jackson* baseball player – Pickens County, SC USA (1887)
Joe Malone* hockey player – Quebec City, QC Canada (1890)
Joe Rosenthal* photographer (Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima ) - Washington, D.C. USA (1911)
Joe Shuster* comic book artist – Toronto, ON Canada (1914)
Joe Hin Tjio* cytogeneticist – Pekalongan, Java, Dutch East Indies (1919)
Joe Sinnott* comic book artist – Saugerties, NY USA (1926)
Joe Moakley* a politician who sought to end the wars in Central America – Boston, MA USA (1927)
Joe Jackson* talent manager – Fountain Hill, AR USA (1928)
Joe Coulombe* entrepreneur/ founder of Trader Joe’s – San Diego, CA USA (1930)
Joe Brown* mountaineer – Ardwick, Manchester, England (1930)
Joe Orton* playwright/author/ diarist – Leicester, England (1933)
Joe Ruby* animator/writer/ producer – Los Angeles, CA USA (1933)
Joe Bussard* collector of 78-rpm records – Frederick, MD USA (1936)
Joe McCain* actor/newspaper reporter/brother of John McCain – New London, CT USA (1942)
Joe Biden* politician/46usp – Scranton, PA USA (1942)
Joe Pesci* actor – Newark, NJ USA (1943)
Joe Namath* Am.football player/actor – Beaver Falls, PA USA (1943)
Joe Frazier* boxer/OG/coach – Beaufort, SC USA (1944)
Joe Cocker* singer – Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (1944)
Joe Mantegna* actor/producer/director – Chicago, IL USA (1947)
Joe Piscopo* actor/radio talk show host – Passaic, NJ USA (1951)
Joe Pantoliano* actor – Hoboken, NJ USA (1951)
Joe R. Landsdale* writer/martial arts expert – Gladewater, TX USA (1951)
Joe Penny* actor – Uxbridge, London, England (1956)
Joe Exotic* (b Schreibvogel) zoo operator/convicted felon – Garden City, KS USA (1963)
Joe Nieuwendyk* hockey player/OG – Oshawa, ON Canada (1966)
Joe Rogan* stand-up comedian/podcast host/UCF commentator – Newark, NJ USA (1967)
Joe Sakic* hockey player/3GC/executive – Burnaby, BC Canada (1969)
Joseph “Fat Joe” Cartagena* rapper/actor – The Bronx, NY USA (1970)
Joe Russo* film director/screenwriter/actor – Cleveland, OH USA (1971)
Joe McFadden* actor (Heartbeat) – Glasgow, Scotland (1975)
Joe Thornton* hockey player/OG – London, ON Canada (1979)
Joe Pavelski* hockey player – Plover, WI USA (1984)
Joe Grimaldi* hockey player – Ronkonkoma, NY USA (1986)
Joe Kovacs* athlete (shot put)/WC – Nazareth, PA USA (1989)
Joe Alwyn* actor – North London, England (1991)
Joe Morrow* hockey player – Edmonton, AB Canada (1992)
Updated 22.11.2022