Józef Użycki (born 1 December 1932) is a Polish military officer, and communist politician.

He was born in the village of Kiertyn in Stryi county (now Ukraine), in the Polish Second Republic.

He began his military service in 1950, as a podchorąży, attending Officer Infantry school Number One in Wrocław.

In 1959-1966 he served in the Staff of the Silesian Military District, where he was an officer of the Operational Department.

From 1971 to 1973, he was a student at the Military Academy of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR in Moscow.

The division he commanded was repeatedly distinguished, including twice in one year by order of the Minister of National Defence.

He was the Co-author of the new Polish Defence doctrine, which he presented in January 1990 at the conference of Chiefs of General Staff of European and North American countries in Vienna.