Joshua Butler Wright (October 18, 1877 – December 4, 1939) was a United States diplomat who served as representative of the US in Hungary, Uruguay, Czechoslovakia, and Cuba.

While living in Cody, Wyoming, he passed the foreign service examination on May 17, 1909, and became a career diplomat.

Wright later served in Belgium, Brazil, Russia and the United Kingdom.

During his stint as ambassador to Cuba, the SS St. Louis with its cargo of mostly German Jewish refugees tried to land in Havana in 1939.

[7] His remains were returned to the United States at the Washington Navy Yard aboard the cruiser USS Omaha.