Joseph Cannon or Joe Cannon may refer to: Joseph A. Cannon (born 1949), former chairman of the Utah Republican Party and former chairman of Geneva Steel Joseph Gurney Cannon (1836–1926), U.S. Representative from Illinois and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; nicknamed "Uncle Joe" Joseph J. Cannon (1877–1945), Utah politician, newspaper editor, and LDS Church leader Joe Cannon (baseball) (Joseph Jerome Cannon, born 1953), Major League Baseball outfielder Joe Cannon (soccer) (born 1975), American goalkeeper Joseph Cannon (socialist), American labor leader and socialist politician Joe B. Cannon (born 1935), American politician in the Texas House of Representatives