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 word johnson:
“So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)