Josiah (given name)

People with this name

• Josiah, a King of Judah who instituted major reforms
• Josiah Bailey, U.S. senator from North Carolina
• Josiah Bartlett, American physician and statesman and a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence
• Josiah Bartlett Jr., U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
• Josiah Begole, U.S. Representative and 19th Governor of Michigan
• Josiah Child, English merchant, economist proponent of mercantilism, and governor of the East India Company
• Josiah Mushore Chinamano, Zimbabwean politician
• Josiah Conder , British architect, first teacher of Japanese architects to build western-style buildings in Japan
• Josiah Conder , British author and editor
• Josiah Deguara, American football player
• Josiah Forster, English Quaker, teacher, anti-slavery advocate and philanthropist
• Josiah Francis, Australian politician and Minister for the Army
• Josiah Willard Gibbs, American theoretical physicist, chemist, and mathematician
• Josiah Gorgas, Confederate general and chief of ordnance during the American Civil War, later president of the University of Alabama
• Josiah Harlan, a prince of Ghor and American adventurer in Afghanistan and Punjab
• Josiah Harmar, United States Army officer in the American Revolution and the Northwest Indian War, and the senior army officer from 1784 to 1791
• Josiah Henson, American author, abolitionist, minister and ex-slave widely believed to be the inspiration of Uncle Tom
• Josias Kumpf, Nazi concentration camp guard
• Josiah K. Lilly, Sr., pharmaceutical industrialist, President of Eli Lilly and Company, and philanthropist
• Josiah Martin, last colonial governor of the Province of North Carolina
• Josiah Ng, Malaysian professional track cyclist
• Josiah Parker, member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia in the first six Congresses
• Josiah Pittman, British organist, composer and music editor
• Josiah Quincy, various members of the same American family
• Josiah Royce, American objective idealist philosopher
• Josiah Scott, multiple people
• Josiah "Doc" Scurlock, American cowboy and gunfighter
• Josiah Spode, English potter and founder of the Spode pottery works
• Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician, writer, banker and director of the Bank of England
• Josiah Symon, Scottish-Australian lawyer and politician
• Josiah Taft, farmer, soldier and legislator in colonial Massachusetts
• Josiah Tattnall, officer in the United States Navy and the Confederate Navy
• Josiah Tauaefa, American football player
• Josiah Thomas, Cornish Australian miner and politician
• Josiah Tongogara, a commander of the ZANLA guerrilla army in Rhodesia expected to become the first President of Zimbabwe before his death
• Josiah Tuck, American inventor and submarine pioneer
• Josiah Warren, individualist anarchist, inventor, musician, and author, widely regarded as the first American anarchist
• one of a family of British potters and entrepreneurs:
• * Josiah Wedgwood, English potter, founder of the Wedgwood company, and abolitionist
• * Josiah Wedgwood II, son of the first Josiah Wedgwood
• * Josiah Wedgwood III, son of the second Josiah Wedgwood
• * Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood, a.k.a. Josiah Wedgwood IV, great grandson of the second Josiah Wedgwood and great nephew of the third
• * Josiah Wedgwood V, son of the fourth Josiah Wedgwood
• Josiah Whitney, American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard, and chief of the California Geological Survey
• Josiah Winslow, Pilgrim leader and governor of Plymouth Colony

  Fictional characters

• Josiah Bartlet, President of the United States in the television series The West Wing
• Josiah Beardsley, a character in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series and its TV adaptation
• Josiah Power, DC Comics superhero
• Josiah X, in the Marvel Comics Universe