Franz Josef

Franz Josef, in certain Anglophone contexts rendered Francis Joseph may refer to the following people:
* Franz Joseph Och, German machine translation researcher now at Google and involved with GIZA++ and Pharaoh
* Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen, Austrian dramatist, poet and short-story writer
* Franz Joseph (1914-1994), artist and author loosely associated with Star Trek
* Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830-1916), Emperor of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary and King of Bohemia
**The Franz-Joseph, in barbering the pattern of facial hair combining sideburns with a mustache, named after Franz Joseph I of Austria
* Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1726-1781), Knight of the Golden Fleece
* Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1906-1989), Knight of the Golden Fleece
* Franz Joseph Antony (1790-1837), choral composer
* Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877-1947), German chemist
* Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer (1660-1718), sculptor and stuccoist
* Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828), neuroanatomist and physiologist
* Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), one of the most prominent composers of the Classical period
* Franz Joseph Molitor (1779-1860), German writer and philosopher
* Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (1740-1825), Hungarian mineralogist
* Franz Josef Strauß (1915-1988), German politician

There also exist a few eponym placenames:
* Franz Josef Land an archipelago located in the far north of Russia.
* Franz Joseph Cliffs
* Franz Josef Glacier on New Zealand's South Island and the associated town of Franz Josef

ee also

* Joseph Franz