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:
“Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television—with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)