Joel (given name)

Joel is a male given name derived from יוֹאֵל Standard Hebrew, Yoʾel, Tiberian Hebrew, or Yôʾēl meaning "Yahu is god", "YHWH is God", or the modern translation "Yahweh 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 Barnett, Baron Barnett, British politician
• Joel Beckett, English actor
• Joel Beinin, professor
• Joel Benjamin, chess grandmaster
• Joel Bomgar, American businessman and politician.
• 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 Carpenter, American screenwriter
• 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 Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer
• Joel Ângelo Couto Ferreiro Vital, Portuguese footballer known as Joel
• 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
• Joël Fuchs, Swiss 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 Heath, American football 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, British soldier
• Joel Horlen, American All Star major league baseball pitcher
• Joel Houston, songwriter 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 Kinnaman, Swedish-American actor
• 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 Landau, rabbi
• Joël Letac, a member of the Free French Forces (FFF) during the Second World War
• Joël Le Theule (1930-1980), French politician.
• Joel Lebowitz, mathematical physicist
• Joel Löwe, German Biblical commentator
• Joel Luani, Australian Rugby League player
• Joel Lundqvist, Swedish professional ice hockey player
• Joel Lynch, professional British football player
• Joel Madden, lead vocalist for the band Good Charlotte
• Joel Makower, entrepreneur, writer, and strategist
• Joel Antônio Martins (1931-2003), Brazilian footballer often referred to as simply "Joel"
• Joël Matip (born 1991), Cameroonian footballer
• 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
• Joël Mergui (born 1958), French Jewish official.
• Joel Meyerowitz, American photographer
• Joel Meyers, American sportscaster
• 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
• Yoel Rodríguez Oterino (born 1988), Spanish footballer
• 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)
• Yoel Romero, Cuban wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
• 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
• Yoel Sela (born 1951), Israeli Olympic competitive sailor
• Joel Spitzer (born c. 1957), smoking cessation educator who often signs his posts "Joel"
• 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 (politician), United States Representative from New York
• Joel Thompson (rugby league), Australian rugby league footballer
• 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 Crawford, character in the Shall We Date?: Wizardess Heart+ App
• Joel Miller, protagonist of The Last of Us video game