Joseph Johnson may refer to:
- Joseph Johnson (publisher) (1738–1809), London bookseller
- Joseph Johnson (Virginia politician) (1785–1877), U.S. Representative and Governor of Virginia
- Joseph Johnson (watch maker) (died 1851), watchmaker from Liverpool
- Joseph Johnson (FDNY Commissioner) (appointed 1911), American fire department commissioner
- Joseph Johnson (cricketer) (1916–2011), English cricketer
- Joseph B. Johnson (1893–1986), Governor of Vermont
- Joseph E. Johnson (1906–1990), American government official
- Joseph Ellis Johnson (1817–1882), American newspaper publisher
- Joseph Forsyth Johnson (1840–1906), English landscape architect
- Joseph French Johnson (1853–1925), American economist
- Joseph I. Johnson (1914–1940), WWII RAF aviatior
- Joseph McMillan Johnson (1912–1990), American movie art director
- Joseph P. Johnson (born 1931), Virginia state delegate
- Joseph Travis Johnson (1858–1919), U.S. federal judge
- Joseph T. Johnson (1858–1919), U.S. Representative from South Carolina
- J. M. Johnson (Joseph Modupe Johnson, 1911–1987), Nigerian politician
- Jo Johnson (born 1971), columnist and British MP for Orpington
- Billy Johnson (Mormon) (born Joseph William Billy Johnson, 1934), leader and missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ghana
- Smokey Johnson, New Orleans jazz musician
- Charles Leroux (Joseph Johnson, 1856–1889), American balloonist and parachutist
- Joseph Johnson (murderer) (died 1964), American murderer executed by the state of Texas
- Joseph Johnson (soldier), an American soldier, killed in Afghanistan, whose memory was used in an attack ad against Bridget McCormack
Famous quotes containing the words joseph and/or johnson:
“If you tie a horse to a stake, do you expect he will grow fat? If you pen an Indian up on a small spot of earth, and compel him to stay there, he will not be contented, nor will he grow and prosper. I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They can not tell me.”
—Chief Joseph (c. 1840–1904)
“I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)