Joseph William McMurrin (September 5, 1858 – October 24, 1932) was a general authority and a member of the First Council of the Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

[1] Joseph W. McMurrin was married to Mary Ellen Hunter on April 1, 1880, and had seven children.

In 1881 he took up a contract with some associates to build a portion of the Oregon Short Line Railroad through Wyoming.

In 1885 he was shot by a US Marshall through his vitals, but survived after being given a priesthood blessing by John Henry Smith.

Although based in Britain he traveled extensively to oversee missionary work in continental Europe as well.