Joel (given name)

For other uses, see Joel (disambiguation).

Joel
Pronunciation	/ˈdʒoʊəl/ or JOH-əl
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Hebrew
Meaning	"YHWH is God"
Other names
Related names	Joe, Joey, Joelle

Joel (יוֹאֵל Standard Hebrew Yoʾel, Tiberian Hebrew Yôʾēl) "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 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, 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 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
• 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 Mellin, Swedish meteorologist in TV
• Joel Antônio Martins (1931-2003), Brazilian footballer often referred to as simply "Joel"
• 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 Meyers, American sportscaster
• Joel David Moore, American actor
• Joel C. Mora, American computer scientist
• 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)
• 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 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