Joel (given name)
| Joel | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation |
/ˈdʒoʊɛl/ or JOH-el |
| Gender | Male |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Hebrew |
| Meaning | "YHWH is God" |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Joe, Joey, Joelle |
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Joel (יוֹאֵל Standard Hebrew Yoʾel, Tiberian Hebrew Yôʾēl) "Yahu is god", "YHWH is God", or the modern translation:Jehovah Is God.
Joel as a given name appears in the Hebrew Bible.
Joel as a given name
Biblical figures
- Joel, Hebrew Biblical prophet
- Joel is also the name of several minor figures in the Hebrew Bible.
Others
- Joel Achenbach, staff writer for The Washington Post and author
- Joel Anderson, California politician
- Joel Augustus Rogers, Jamaican author, journalist and historian
- Joel John Bailey, soccer player for the Montreal, QC Impact
- Joel Conrad Bakan, Canadian lawyer and writer
- Joel Barlow, American poet and politician
- Joel Barr, part of the Soviet Atomic Spy Ring
- Joel Beckett, English actor
- Joel Beinin, professor
- Joel Benjamin, chess grandmaster
- Joel Bouchard, French Canadian professional ice hockey
- Joel Bowden, Australian rules footballer
- Joel Brand, played a prominent role in trying to save the Hungarian Jewish community
- Joel Breton, game producer, international D.J. and entrepreneur
- Joel Brind, pro-life born again Christian, scientist, and advocate of the abortion-breast cancer hypothesis
- Joel Brutus, Haitian judoka
- Joel Carreño, a pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays
- Joel Casamayor, Cuban boxer
- Joel Chernoff, Singer-songwriter and Messianic Jew, founder member of the music group Lamb
- Joel Clinton, Australian rugby league footballer
- Joel Coen, American director and producer
- Joel Connable, news reporter, paramedic, and former private pilot from Long Island, NY
- Joel Courtney, American actor
- Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist
- Joel Crothers, Actor
- Joel Cummins, American musician
- Joel Dorn, American jazz and R&B music producer and record label serial entrepreneur
- Joel Edgerton, Australian actor
- Joel Engle, recording artist
- Joel Erhardt, Commissioner of Police of New York City
- Joel Fabiani, American actor
- Joel Feinberg, American political and social philosopher
- Joel Fitzgibbon, Australian politician
- Joel Fleischman M.D., fictional central character of the TV series Northern Exposure
- Joel Freeland, British basketball player
- Joel Fuhrman, American family medicine physician and author
- Joel Garner, West Indian International Cricketer (Fast bowler)
- Joel Garreau, American journalist and author
- Joel Geist, American actor
- Joel Gerber, Chief Judge of the United States Tax Court
- Joel Gertner, American Professional wrestling personality
- Joel Gion, American musician brother man
- Joel Gistedt, professional Swedish ice hockey player
- Joel Glazer, part of the Glazer family, who control First Allied Corporation and the Zapata Corporation, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL, and England's Manchester United Football Club.
- Joel Goldsmith, composer of film, television music and video games
- Joel S. Goldsmith, author, teacher, spiritual healer, mystic and founder of the Infinite Way movement
- Joel Godard, American television announcer
- Joel Greenblatt, chairman of The St. Lawrence Seaway Corporation
- Joel Gretsch, American actor
- Joel Grey, American actor
- Joel Gustave Nana Ngongang, African LGBT human rights activist
- Joel Heyman, voice actor
- Joel Hailey, American musician
- Joel Hanrahan, Major League Baseball player
- Joel Hefley, American politician
- Joel Higgins, American actor and singer
- Joel Hirschhorn, American songwriter
- Joel Henry Hildebrand, American educator and a pioneer chemist
- Joel Hodgson, creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Joel Robinson, the character he plays on the show
- Joel Holmes, Pokémon Trainer
- Joel Horlen, American All Star major league baseball pitcher
- Joel Houston, song writer and worship leader at the Hillsong Church
- Joel Hurt, important businessman and developer
- Joel Hyatt, prominent businessman, former attorney and American politician
- Joel Isasi, former sprinter from Cuba
- Joel Jeannot, wheelchair racer
- Joel Jones, Puerto Rican professional basketball player
- Joel Kauffman, stock car racer
- Joel Kwiatkowski, Canadian ice hockey player for the Pittsburgh Penguins
- Joel Klein, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education
- Joel Kovel, American politician, academic, writer and eco-socialist
- Joel Lane, British author, poet, critic and anthology editor
- Joel Lebowitz, mathematical physicist
- Joel Löwe, German Biblical commentator
- Joel Luani, Australian Rugby League player
- Joel Lundqvist, Swedish professional ice hockey player with Dallas Stars in NHL.
- Joel Lynch, professional British football player
- Joel Madden, lead vocalist for the band Good Charlotte
- Joel Makower, entrepreneur, writer, and strategist
- Joel Meyers, American sportscaster
- Joel McCormack, designer of the NCR Corporation version of the p-code machine
- Joel McCrea, actor
- Joel McHale, American actor and host
- Joel McIlroy, Australian actor
- Joel McIver, British author
- Joel McNeely, music composer for movies and television
- Joel Meyerowitz, American photographer
- Joel David Moore, American actor
- Joel Moses, Israel-born American computer scientist
- Joel Müller, German rabbi
- Joel Murray, American actor
- Joel N. Myers, founder, president and chairman of the board of AccuWeather, Inc.
- Joel Oppenheimer, American poet
- Joel Osteen, American author, pastor, and televangelist
- Joel Otto, former American ice hockey player
- Joel Palmer, author of an immigrant guidebook, co-founder of Dayton, Oregon, an Indian Affairs administrator, and a politician
- Joel Parker, politician, Governor of New Jersey
- Joel Peralta relief pitcher on the Kansas City Royals of Major League
- Joel Piñeiro, American Baseball Player
- Joel Plaskett, Canadian rock musician
- Joel Porter, Australian football (soccer) player
- Joel Primack, professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Joel Przybilla, professional basketball player in the NBA
- Joel Robles, Spanish football player
- Joel Quarrington, Canadian bass player and soloist
- Joel Quenneville, Canadian former defenceman and coach of the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks
- Joel Reddy, Australian Rugby League player
- Joel Rifkin, American serial killer
- Joel Roberts Poinsett, physician, botanist and American statesman
- Joel Robinson, fictional character in the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K)
- Joel Rosenberg, science fiction and fantasy author
- Joel C. Rosenberg, author and a communications strategist
- Joel Roth, American rabbi in the Rabbinical Assembly
- Joel Salatin, American farmer, lecturer, and author
- Joel Santana, Brazilian manager and former football player
- Joel Selwood, Australian Rules footballer
- Joel Schumacher, American director and producer
- Joel Shapiro, American sculptor
- Joel Shepherd, Australian science fiction author
- Joel Sherman, American Scrabble expert
- Joel ibn Shu'aib, 15th century rabbi
- Joel Siegel, American film critic
- Joel Silbersher, musician from Melbourne, Australia
- Joel Silver, producer
- Joel Sirkis, Central European rabbi
- Joel Skinner, former catcher in Major League Baseball and coach
- Joel Sonnenberg, a Christian motivational speaker
- Joel Elias Spingarn, American educator and literary critic
- Joel Spolsky, software engineer
- Joel Stebbins, American astronomer who pioneered photoelectric photometry in astronomy
- Joel Stein, American journalist
- Joel Steinberg, New York criminal defense attorney
- Joel Stelly, American football player for the Chicago, IL Bears
- Joel Sternfeld, photographer
- Joel Stransky, South African rugby union footballer
- Joel Stroetzel, guitarist from the Massachusetts metalcore band Killswitch Engage
- Joel Surnow, American writer and producer
- Joel Teitelbaum, Hungarian Hasidic Rabbi and Talmudic scholar
- Joel Thompson, Federalist member of the United States House of Representatives
- Joel Tobeck, New Zealand film and television actor
- Joel Turner (musician), musician
- Joel Veitch, English web animator and member of the B3ta collective
- Joel Walker Sweeney, musician
- Joel Ward, Canadian professional ice hockey player
- Joel Yanofsky, Canadian novelist and literary columnist
- Joel Youngblood, retired Major League baseball player
- Joel Zifkin, Canadian musician and songwriter from Montreal, QC
- Joel Zimmerman, Canadian progressive house and electro house DJ better known as deadmau5
- Joel Zumaya, Major League Baseball relief pitcher
- Joel Zwick, American director of movies, theatre, and television shows
Fictional characters
- Joel Miller, protagonist of The Last of Us video game