Joseph William Kemp (16 December 1872 – 4 September 1933) was a Baptist minister and preacher, a revivalist, and a leader of the Christian fundamentalist movement in New Zealand.
[1] His father, a policeman, drowned while on duty, and his mother died less than two years later when he was only nine.
He pastored churches in Kelso (1897–1898), Hawick (1898–1902), and Charlotte Chapel, Edinburgh (1902–1915), and then pastored Calvary Baptist Church (1915–1917) and Metropolitan Baptist Tabernacle (1917–1919) in New York City.
After seeing the detrimental effect of fundamentalism on interdenominational work during a visit to the United States in 1926, Kemp softened his stance somewhat, partly due to the influence of Baptist College of New Zealand principal J. J.
His grandson Ian served as a lecturer, vice principal and acting Principal at the Auckland campus of Bible College of New Zealand, and his great-grandson Hugh has served as lecturer and Dean at the Manawatu Regional centre of Bible College of New Zealand in Palmerston North.