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.
| Pronunciation | /ˈdʒoʊəl/ JOH-əl, /ˈdʒoʊl/ JOHL |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Hebrew |
| Meaning | "YHWH is God" |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Joe, Joey, Joelle |
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 of Dotawo, Sudanese ruler
- Joel Achenbach, staff writer for The Washington Post and author
- Joel Anderson, California politician
- Joel Augustus Rogers, Jamaican author, journalist and historian
- Joël Ayayi (born 2000), French basketball player
- Joel John Bailey, Canadian soccer player
- 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 Berghult, Swedish musician and YouTuber
- Joel Bomgar, American businessman and politician
- Joel Bouagnon, American football player
- Joel Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player
- Joel Bowden, Australian rules footballer
- Joel Brand, prominent role in trying to save the Hungarian Jewish community
- Joel Breton, game producer, DJ and entrepreneur
- Joel Brind, scientist, and abortion activist
- Joel Brutus, Haitian judoka
- Joel Carpenter, American screenwriter
- Joel Carreño, baseball player
- Joel Casamayor, Cuban boxer
- Joel Clinton, Australian rugby footballer
- Joel Coen, American director and producer
- Joel Connable, American news reporter, paramedic, and private pilot
- 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 DeLisa, American physiatrist
- Joel Dorn, American music producer and record label entrepreneur
- Joel Edgerton, Australian actor
- Joel Ekelöf, Swedish vocalist of the band Soen
- Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player
- 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 French III, American Ice Hockey player
- Joël Fuchs, Swiss basketball player
- Joel Fuhrman, American physician and author
- Joel Garner, West Indian cricketer
- Joel Garreau, American journalist and author
- Joel Geist, American actor
- Joel Gerber, Chief Judge of the United States Tax Court
- Joel Gertner, American wrestling personality
- Joel Gion, American musician
- Joel Gistedt, Swedish ice hockey player
- Joel Glazer, part of the Glazer family
- Joel Glucksman (born 1949), American Olympic fencer
- 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, 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 (born 1937), American All Star baseball player
- Joel Houston, songwriter and worship leader at the Hillsong Church
- Joel Hurt, businessman and developer
- Joel Hyatt, American businessman, attorney and politician
- Joel Isasi, Cuban sprinter
- Joel Iyiegbuniwe (born 1995), American football player
- Joel Jeannot, wheelchair racer
- Joel Jones, Puerto Rican basketball player
- Joel Kauffman, stock car racer
- Joel Kinnaman, Swedish-American actor
- Joel Kramer (b. 1955), American basketball player
- Joel Kwiatkowski, Canadian ice hockey player
- 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
- Joel Lanning (born 1994), American football player
- Joël Letac, 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 player
- Joel Lundqvist, Swedish ice hockey player
- Joel Lynch, British football player
- Joel Madden, lead vocalist for Good Charlotte
- Prince Joel Dawit Makonnen, Ethiopian prince
- Joel Makower, entrepreneur, writer, and strategist
- Joel Antônio Martins (1931-2003), Brazilian footballer, "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 player
- Joel Primack, professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Joel Przybilla, basketball player
- 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 Florida Panthers
- Joel Reddy, Australian Rugby League player
- Joel Lais, German business man
- 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 Shatzky (1943-2020), American writer and literary professor
- 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 Australia
- Joel Silver, producer
- Joel Sirkis, Central European rabbi
- Joel Skinner, former catcher in Major League Baseball and coach
- Joel Sonnenberg, 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 Varg Johansson, Swedish Twitch (service) streamer known as Vargskelethor
- Joel Veitch, English web animator and member of the B3ta collective
- Joel Walker Sweeney, musician
- Joel Ward, Canadian professional ice hockey player
- Joel Waterman (born 1996), Canadian soccer player
- Joel Wiener (born 1948/49), American billionaire real estate developer and landlord
- 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 Goodson, protagonist of the film Risky Business, portrayed by Tom Cruise
- Joel Crawford, character in the Shall We Date?: Wizardess Heart+ App
- Joel Miller, protagonist of The Last of Us video game
gollark: The entire american system for that seems like a terrible system which needs to be totally redesigned.
gollark: What insurance specifically?
gollark: Insurance makes sense in some cases, I think, where you have low-probability high-badness events, insurance for stuff you can pay for out of pocket easily less so, insurance horribly bodged together with tons of bureaucracy and strongly tied to the stuff it's paying for is utter bees.
gollark: I mean, mostly raised in England and also partly by long term internet exposure, so also not particularly Scottish, but whatever.
gollark: Scottish, ish, but it counts.
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