Sir Joseph Ashe, 1st Baronet (16 February 1617 – 15 April 1686) was an English Whig politician and merchant. He was born into a rising and prominent family of industrialists from Somerset, and was the third surviving son of James Ashe Esquire and his wife Grace Pitt, daughter of Richard Pitt. In London, Joseph took up his father's profession as a clothier to great success, and married Mary Wilson, the daughter of a local draper, later raising with her seven daughters and two sons.