Joseph Francis Fitzgerald (6 February 1912 – 1 November 1985) was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives for the Sydney seat of Phillip from 1949 to 1955 and a member of the Australian Senate for New South Wales from 1961 to 1974. After his Senate retirement, he served as a member of the National Advisory Committee for the Handicapped from 1974 to 1980. He was made a life member of the Labor Party in 1979. He died in 1985.