Joel (given name)

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, 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
• 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, American football player
• Joël Letac, member of the Free French Forces during the Second World War
• Joël Le Theule, 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, Brazilian footballer, "Joel"
• Joël Matip, 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, 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, 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
• 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, 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, Israeli Olympic competitive sailor
• Joel Spitzer, 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, United States Representative from New York
• Joel Thompson, Australian rugby league footballer
• Joel Tobeck, New Zealand film and television actor
• Joel Turner, musician
• Joel Varg Johansson, Swedish Twitch 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, Canadian soccer player
• Joel Wiener, 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