Lista de Personas Famosas llamadas Josiah

Josiah Bartlett fue el delegado de New Hampshire en el Congreso Continental de los Estados Unidos y uno de los firmantes de la Constitución de los Estados Unidos. Asimismo fue presidente del Tribunal Supremo de la Corte Superior de New Hampshire y Gobernador del estado de New Hampshire.

Josiah Conder, correspondent of Robert Southey and well-connected to Romantic authors of his day, was editor of the British literary magazine The Eclectic Review, the Nonconformist and abolitionist newspaper The Patriot, the author of romantic verses, poetry, and many popular hymns that survive to this day. His most ambitious non-fiction work was the thirty-volume worldwide geographical tome The Modern Traveller; and his best-selling compilation book The Congregational Hymn Book. Conder was a prominent London Congregationalist, an abolitionist, and took an active part in seeking to repeal British anti-Jewish laws.

Josiah Kirby Lilly Sr., nicknamed "J. K.," was an American businessman, pharmaceutical industrialist, and philanthropist who became president and chairman of the board of Eli Lilly and Company, the pharmaceutical firm his father, Colonel Eli Lilly, founded in 1876. Josiah, the colonel's sole heir, began working at his father’s company at the age of fourteen. He graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science and became superintendent of the Lilly laboratories in 1882 and company president in 1898. Under his leadership, the company introduced standardized manufacturing processes, expanded its sales force, and increased its research efforts to develop new drugs. Eli Lilly and Company grew into one of the largest and most influential pharmaceutical corporations in the world, and the largest corporation in Indiana. Lilly’s eldest son, Eli Jr., succeeded him as president in 1932. His younger son, Josiah Jr. ("Joe"), succeeded Eli as company president in 1948. J. K. served as chairman of the board from 1932 until his death in 1948.

Josiah Bartlett Jr. was an American physician and politician from New Hampshire. He served as a United States Representative from New Hampshire and as a member of the New Hampshire Senate during the early 1800s.

Josiah Dwight Whitney fue un geólogo y profesor de geología en la Universidad de Harvard. Él era el jefe del Servicio Geológico de California (1860-1874).

Josiah Harlan, Príncipe de Ghor fue un aventurero estadounidense, conocido por haber viajado a Afganistán y el Punjab con la intención de ser hecho rey. Una vez allí se involucró en la política local y las luchas militares entre facciones, consiguiendo el título de Príncipe de Ghor de forma perpetua para él y para sus descendientes como recompensa por sus servicios y consejos militares. Se considera que la novela de Rudyard Kipling El hombre que pudo reinar está basada en Harlan.

Josiah Parsons Cooke was an American scientist who worked at Harvard University and was instrumental in the measurement of atomic weights, inspiring America's first Nobel laureate in chemistry, Theodore Richards, to pursue similar research. Cooke's 1854 paper on atomic weights has been said to foreshadow the periodic law developed later by Mendeleev and others. Historian I. Bernard Cohen described Cooke "as the first university chemist to do truly distinguished work in the field of chemistry" in the United States.

Josiah Parker was an American politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia in the First through Sixth United States Congresses.