Joseph Hambro (4 November 1780 – 3 October 1848) was a Danish merchant, banker and political advisor.

[1] His father, Calmer Hambro, was a Jewish silk and textile merchant, who was born in Rendsburg.

[1] In 1800, he joined his father's bank and renamed it C. J. Hambro & Son.

1830, he acquired Bodenhoffs Plads in Christianshavn, from then on known as Hambros Plads, establishing both a rice mill with Denmark's first steam engine, the country's first canned food factory and a bakery at the site.

[2] Hambro became an advisor to Johan Sigismund von Møsting, who served as the Danish Minister of Finance.