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G.I. Joe

The action figure G.I. Joe was created by the Hasbro toy company in 1964, in part as a response to the popularity of Barbie dolls with American girls. Joe was a World War II-style fighting man,…

Joe Montana

Joe Montana is the most famous quarterback in the history of the San Francisco 49ers, having led the team to four Super Bowl victories in the 1980s. Joe Montana joined the San Francisco 49ers in 1979…

Joe Jonas

Name at birth: Joseph Adam JonasJoe Jonas is the middle member of the Jonas Brothers, the popular teen pop-punk band. Joe plays guitar and swaps lead and backing vocals with his younger brother Nick…

Joe Hill

Name at birth: Joseph Hillstrom KingJoe Hill is the award-winning fantasy/horror author whose novels include Heart-Shaped Box (2007) and NOS4A2 (2013). He's also the oldest son of novelists Stephen…

Joe Frazier

Joe Frazier was an Olympic gold medalist in 1964 and the world heavyweight boxing champion between 1970 and 1973. He is famous especially for his three brutal fights with fellow heavyweight Muhammad…

Joe DiMaggio

Joe DiMaggio was one of the most gifted batters in pro baseball history. (Ted Williams once called him "the greatest all-around player I ever saw.") A center fielder for the New York Yankees, Joe…

Joe Pesci

Joe Pesci is the short, fiery actor who won an Oscar for his supporting role as Tommy DeVito, the funny-but-psychopathic mobster in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1990). Joe Pesci started his…

Joe Paterno

Name at birth: Joseph PaternoJoe Paterno of Penn State University was the winningest football coach in NCAA Division 1 history and a popular national figure until he was fired in 2011 in the wake of…

Joe Namath

Quarterback Joe Namath played American football from 1965 to 1977, but it was his performance in 1969's Super Bowl III that catapulted him to stardom and cemented his place in sports history. Joe…

Brewer's: Joe

or a Joe Miller. A stale joke; so called from the compilation of jokes under that nom de plume. (See Miller.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894JoeyJockey of…