Lista de Personas Famosas llamadas Josiah

Josiah Henson fue un activista estadounidense nacido en la esclavitud. Nació el 15 de junio de 1789 en el condado de Charles, Maryland, Estados Unidos y falleció en Dresden, Canadá, el 5 de mayo de 1883. En 1830, para conseguir la libertad, se escapó hacia el Alto Canadá donde fundó una escuela en Dawn destinada principalmenta a esclavos fugitivos, para enseñarles oficios con los que pudieran ganar su propio pan en libertad.

El comodoro Josiah Tattnall, Jr. fue un oficial de la Armada de los Estados Unidos durante la Guerra anglo estadounidense de 1812, la Segunda guerra berberisca y la Guerra contra México. Finalmente sirvió en la Armada de los Estados Confederados durante la Guerra Civil.

Josiah Gilbert Holland was an American novelist and poet who also wrote under the pseudonym Timothy Titcomb. He helped to found and edit Scribner's Monthly, in which appeared his novels, Arthur Bonnicastle, The Story of Sevenoaks, Nicholas Minturn. In poetry he wrote "Bitter-Sweet" (1858), "Kathrina", the lyrics to the Methodist hymn "There's a Song in the Air", and many others.

Josiah Williams Begole was a U.S. Representative from 1873 to 1875 and the 19th Governor of Michigan from 1883 to 1885.

Josiah Tattnall was an American planter, soldier and politician from Savannah, Georgia. He represented Georgia in the U.S. Senate from 1796 to 1799, and was the 25th Governor of Georgia in 1801 and 1802. Born near Savannah, Georgia, at Bonaventure Plantation in the early 1760s to Mary Mullryne and Josiah Tattnall, he studied at Eton School before joining Anthony Wayne's troops at Ebenezer during the American Revolutionary War. After the war, he was elected brigadier general of the 1st Regiment in the Georgia Militia. He helped to rescind the Yazoo land fraud of 1795. He died in Nassau, New Providence.