Iosif Hodoș, (alternatively spelled Hodoșiu; 20 October 1829, Bandu de Câmpie, Mureș – 28 November/9 December 1880, Sibiu) was a Romanian historian, politician, lawyer, and publisher.

"No one (perhaps not even Papiu and Hodoș) enjoyed their success more sincerely than the good Father Balint from Roșia Montană, who wrote them an epistle on January 21, 1854, to show them how happy he would be the Romanian nation of the high title they had won."

As a deputy in the Hungarian diet of Pest, he supported the autonomy and integrity of Transylvania for which he was congratulated by the people of Brașov, Craiova, Bucharest and by those from the Sibiu Academy of Rights.

On behalf of the Romanian Academy, he translated and edited the works of Dimitrie Cantemir Descriptio Moldaviae and The history of the Ottoman Empire.

In 1861, he collaborated with The Carpathian Magazine (Revista Carpaților) edited by Gheorghe Sion and in The Paper for the Mind, Heart and Literature (Foaie pentru minte, inimă şi literatură).