Joseph "Joe" Ray Fazio (11 September 1942 – August 2011) was an Australian national champion rower who won a silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

He was born in Taree, New South Wales and was sent to school in Sydney in 1955 at St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill following the death of his father when Joe was nine years of age.

[1] At the College's Cadet Camp in 1959 he was involved in a tragic accident when his close friend Michael Farrell was critically injured by an unexploded shell which he and Fazio found on the Singleton rifle range.

[2] Back pain caused by the shrapnel still lodged close to his spine forced Fazio to undergo a spinal fusion operation in 1967 but within six months he was again rowing at the highest level.

[3] He made another state representative appearance for New South Wales in the King's Cup crew at the 1969 Interstate Championships.