Jost

Jost is both a German given name and a surname and a Jewish (Ashkenazi) surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Jost Amman (1539–1591), Swiss
• Jost Bürgi (1552–1632), Swiss clockmaker, maker of astronomical instruments, and mathematician
• Jost Metzler (1909–1975), German submarine commander during World War II
• Jost Vacano (born 1934), German cinematographer
• Jost Capito (born 1958), German Motorsport manager and current CEO and team principal of Williams Racing Formula One team

Surname

• Alfred Jost (1916–1991), French endocrinologist
• Christian Jost (born 1963), German composer
• Christian Jost, French geographer
• Colin Jost (born 1982), American writer and comedian
• Heinz Jost (1904–1964), Nazi war criminal
• Henry L. Jost (1873–1950), U.S. politician
• Isaak Markus Jost (1793–1860) Jewish historical writer
• Jeffrey Jost, American bobsledder
• John Jost (born 1968), American social psychologist
• Jon Jost (born 1943), American independent filmmaker
• Jürgen Jost, German mathematician
• Matthieu Jost (figure skater) (born 1981), French ice dancer
• Mike Jost (born 1979), American musician
• Peter Jost (1921–2016), German-British mechanical engineer of Jewish descent, founder of tribology
• Res Jost (1918–1990), Swiss theoretical physicist
• Tyson Jost (born 1998), Canadian hockey player

See also

• Jost Van Dyke, an island in the British Virgin Islands
• Joest, a surname