Joseph Wright may refer to:
- Joseph A. Wright (1810-1867), governor of Indiana
- Joseph C. Wright (1892-1985), American art director
- Joseph Robert Wright, Jr. (born 1938), Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget
- Joseph Wright (linguist) (1855-1930), English philologist
- Joseph Wright (rower) (1864–1950), Canadian rower
- Joseph Wright (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1930s for Great Britain, England, and Swinton
- Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797), English painter
- Joseph Wright (American Artist) (1756–1793), American portraitist
- Joseph Wright, Jr. (rower) (1906-1981), Canadian rower
- Joseph Wright (greyhound trainer) (1824-1908), greyhound trainer and father of Jack Wright (greyhound trainer), Joe Wright (greyhound trainer), Robert Kelsell Wright and Tom Wright (greyhound trainer)
Famous quotes containing the word wright:
“The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)