Josef Schaupper (3 August 1963 – 11 November 2000) was an Austrian deaf alpine skier.

He died in the Kaprun funicular railway fire on 11 November 2000, along with his fellow deaf skiers.

[2][3] Schaupper made his debut at the 1987 Winter Deaflympics and competed on two further occasions.

[7][8] In the 1999 Winter Deaflympics, he again won silver medals in the men's slalom and super giant events.

[9][10] Schaupper and his friends Sandra Mayr, Karl Hutegger and Stephan Mohr, who were also deaf skiers, were trapped and killed in a fire in an ascending train in the tunnel of the Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2 in Kaprun.