Joseph "Joe" Musaphia (born 1935) is a New Zealand writer and actor who was born in London. In 1971 Musaphia and Roger Hall won a Logie Award for best television comedy, Australia A – Z. In 1979 he received the first Victoria University of Wellington Writer's Fellowship. Musaphia wrote his first novel in 1997, has been a columnist for The Evening Post in Wellington, and continues to write stage and radio plays.