Joel (given name)

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

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.

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

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)

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

Yoel Sela (born 1951), Israeli Olympic competitive sailor

Fictional characters

Joel Crawford, character in the Shall We Date?: Wizardess Heart+ App

Joel Miller, protagonist of The Last of Us video game

References

Joel (given name) Wikipedia

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