Joe
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Joe can refer to:
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People
- Joe Clark, the 16th Prime Minister of Canada
- Joe Kelly (Formula One), famous formula one driver from Dublin, Ireland
- Joe Menosky, the Star Trek writer credited with starting the trend of trying to work the number 47 into every script
- Joe Perry, guitarist for Aerosmith
- Joe Piscopo, American comedian known for his work on Saturday Night Live
- Joe Strummer, co-founder and lead singer of punk rock band The Clash, and later, The Mescaleros
- Joe Thomas, US R & B singer best known for his 2000 album My Name is Joe featuring the #1 hit in the US "Stutter"
- Joe Van Holsbeeck, a youth who was murdered by a mugger in a Brussels subway station, prompting huge outrage from the Belgian public
- Uncle Joe, American nickname for Josef Stalin
- Samoa Joe, Profesional wrestler
- * Joe 1, Joe 4, Soviet nuclear tests
Slang
- Joe, common male name, normally being a shortened form of Joseph
- Joe, common placeholder name for a person such as "your average Joe", "Joe Sixpack", "Joe Cool", "Joe Peasant" or "Joe Bloggs"
- Joe Blow, similar to Average Joe but more often associated with someone who is gullible or down on his luck
- Joe, nickname for coffee derived from the name of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, who in 1913 banned alcohol from being served on U.S. Navy warships, causing the sailors to drink more coffee
Fictional
- Joe (movie), 1970 film starring Peter Boyle as the title character
- Joe Cartoon, the creator of classical Flash cartoons such as "Frog blender" and "Gerbil in a microwave" [link]
- Joes, group of enemy robots from the Mega Man games, identified as being humanoid having a single eye, which is commonly their weak spot
- Joe, the name of the Doctor in Star Trek: Voyager in one possible future
- Joe Kido, one of the main characters in the popular anime Digimon Adventure
- Viewtiful Joe, the main hero of the Viewtiful Joe series
Other
- Joe's Own Editor, a Unix text editor
- Joe FM, a brand for several radio stations in North America
- Joe job, essentially spam designed to look like it is coming from someone else
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