Joseph Warwick Bigger (11 September 1891 – 17 August 1951) was an Irish politician and academic.

His parents were Sir Edward Coey Bigger and Maude Coulter Warwick.

[1] In 1900, his family moved to Dublin due to appointment of his father as medical inspector under the Local Government Board of Ireland.

Soon after his graduation from the Trinity College, he was appointed as a demonstrator in pathology and bacteriology at Sheffield University in South Yorkshire, England.

However, in 1919 he returned to Dublin and became pathologist and medical inspector under the Local Government Board and the professor of forensic and preventive medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1920.