Joel (given name)
Joel or Yoel 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.
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| 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, Jewish Biblical prophet
- Joel (biblical figure), several minor figures in the Hebrew Bible
Others
- Joel of Dotawo, Sudanese ruler
- Joel Achenbach, American staff writer for The Washington Post and author
- Joel Anderson, California politician
- 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 Barnett, Baron Barnett, British politician
- Joel Barr, American spy for the Soviet Union
- Joël Batteux (1943–2021), French politician
- Joel Beckett, English actor
- Joel Beinin, American historian of the Middle East
- Joel Benjamin, American chess grandmaster
- Joel Berghult, Swedish musician and YouTuber
- Joel Bomgar, American businessman and politician
- Joel Bouagnon, American football player
- Joël Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player
- Joel Bowden, Australian rules footballer
- Joel Brand (1906–1964), Hungarian who had a prominent role in trying to save the Hungarian Jewish community
- Joel Breton, American game producer, DJ and entrepreneur
- Joel Brind, American scientist and anti-abortion activist
- Joel Brooks, American actor
- Joel Brutus, Haitian judoka
- Joel Carpenter, American screenwriter
- Joel Carreño, Dominican baseball player
- Joel Casamayor, Cuban boxer
- Joel Chan (actor), Hong Kong actor and singer
- Joel Chan (photographer), Singaporean photographer
- 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 Crawford (film director), American story artist and film director
- Joel Crawford (politician) (1783–1858), American politician, soldier and lawyer
- Joel Crothers, American 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, American 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 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 (born 1949), American Olympic fencer
- Joel Godard, American television announcer
- Joel Goldsmith (1957–2012), American composer of film, television music and video games
- Joel S. Goldsmith (1892–1964), American author, teacher, spiritual healer, mystic and founder of the Infinite Way movement
- Joel Greenberg (historian) (born 1946), English educational technology consultant and historian
- Joel Greenberg (politician) (born 1984), American politician and former Florida tax collector
- Joel Greenblatt, American academic, hedge fund manager, investor, and writer
- Joel Gretsch, American actor
- Joel Grey, American actor
- Joel Hailey, American musician
- Joel Hanrahan, American baseball player
- Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist
- Joel Heath, American football player
- Joel Hefley, American politician
- Joel Heyman, American voice actor
- Joel Higgins, American actor and singer
- Joel Henry Hildebrand, American educator and a pioneer chemist
- Joel Hirschhorn, American songwriter
- Joel Hodgson, American creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Joel Robinson, the character he plays on the show
- Joel Holmes (1821–1872), British soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Joel Horlen (1937–2022), American All Star baseball player
- Joel Houston, Australian musician and songwriter, worship leader at the Hillsong Church
- Joel Hurt (1850–1926), American businessman and developer
- Joel Hyatt, American businessman, attorney and politician
- Joel Isasi, Cuban sprinter
- Joel Iyiegbuniwe (born 1995), American football player
- Joël Jeannot, French Olympic wheelchair racer
- Joel Jones, Puerto Rican basketball player
- Joel Kaplan, American political advisor
- Joel Kauffman, American stock car racer
- Joel Kinnaman, Swedish-American actor
- Joel Klein, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education
- Joel Kovel, American politician, academic, writer and eco-socialist
- Joel Kramer (b. 1955), American basketball player
- Joel Kwiatkowski, Canadian ice hockey player
- Joel Landau, American entrepreneur, founder of The Allure Group
- Joel Landau (rabbi), American rabbi
- Joel Lane, British author, poet, critic and anthology editor
- Joel Lanning (born 1994), American football player
- Joël Le Tac (1918–2005), member of the Free French Forces (FFF) during the Second World War
- Joël Le Theule (1930–1980), French politician
- Joel Lebowitz (born 1930), American mathematical physicist
- Joel S. Levine, American planetary and atmospheric scientist
- Joel Löwe, German Biblical commentator
- Joel Luani, Australian rugby player
- Joel Lundqvist, Swedish ice hockey player
- Joel Lynch, British football player
- Joel Madden, American musician, lead vocalist for Good Charlotte
- Joel Dawit Makonnen, Ethiopian prince
- Joel Makower, American entrepreneur, writer, and strategist
- Joel Antônio Martins (1931–2003), Brazilian footballer known as "Joel"
- Joël Matip (born 1991), Cameroonian footballer
- Joel McCormack, American computer scientist
- Joel McCrea, American actor
- Joel McHale, American actor and host
- Joel McIlroy, Australian actor
- Joel McIver, British author
- Joel McNeely, American 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 Myers, American businessman, founder, president and chairman of the board of AccuWeather, Inc.
- Joël Gustave Nana Ngongang, Cameroonian activist for LGBT human rights & HIV/AIDS in Africa
- Joel Oppenheimer, American poet
- Joel Osteen, American author, pastor, and televangelist
- Joel Otto, American ice hockey player
- Joel Palmer (1810–1881), American pioneer, author and politician
- Joel Parker (disambiguation), multiple people
- Joel Peralta, Dominican baseball player
- Joel Perovuo, Finnish football player
- Joel Pimentel (born 1999), American singer
- Joel Piñeiro, American baseball player
- Joel Plaskett, Canadian rock musician
- Joel Pohjanpalo, Finnish football player
- Joel Roberts Poinsett, American physician, botanist and diplomat
- Joel Porter, Australian football player
- Joel Primack, American professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Joel Przybilla, American basketball player
- Joel Robles, Spanish football player
- Yoel Rodríguez (born 1988), Spanish footballer
- Joel Quarrington, Canadian bass player and soloist
- Joel Quenneville, Canadian former ice hockey defenceman, and coach of the NHL's Florida Panthers
- Joel Reddy, Australian Rugby League player
- Joel Rifkin, American serial killer
- Joel Augustus Rogers, Jamaican author, journalist and historian
- Yoel Romero, Cuban wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
- Joel Rosenberg, Canadian-American science fiction and fantasy author
- Joel C. Rosenberg, American author and communications strategist
- Joel Ross, American tennis player
- Joel Roth, American rabbi in the Rabbinical Assembly
- Joel Salatin, American farmer, lecturer, and author
- Yoel Moshe Salomon (1838–1912), Ottoman newspaper publisher and co-founder of towns
- Joel Santana, Brazilian manager and former football player
- Joel Schumacher, American director and producer
- Joel Selwood, Australian Rules footballer
- 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 from Aragon
- Joel Siegel, American film critic
- Joel Silbersher, musician from Australia
- Joel Silver, American film producer
- Joel Sirkis (1561–1640), Central European rabbi
- Joel Skinner, American baseball player 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), American smoking cessation educator
- Joel Spolsky, American 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, American photographer
- Joel Stransky, South African rugby union footballer
- Joel Stroetzel, American guitarist from the Massachusetts metalcore band Killswitch Engage
- Joel Surnow, American writer and producer
- Joel Sweeney (1810–1860), American musician who popularized the banjo
- 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), Australian musician
- Joel Veitch, English web animator and member of the B3ta collective
- Joel Vital, Portuguese footballer known as Joel
- Joël Voordewind (born 1965), Dutch politician
- Joel Ward (disambiguation), multiple people
- Joel Waterman (born 1996), Canadian soccer player
- Joel Wiener (born 1948/49), American billionaire real estate developer and landlord
- Joel Wilson (disambiguation), multiple people
- Joel Yanofsky, Canadian novelist and literary columnist
- Joel Youngblood, American 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, American Major League Baseball relief pitcher
- Joel Zwick, American director of movies, theatre, and television shows
Fictional characters
- Joel Barish, protagonist of the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, portrayed by Jim Carrey
- Joel Fleischman M.D., central character of the TV series Northern Exposure
- Joel Goodson, protagonist of the film Risky Business, portrayed by Tom Cruise
- Joel Hammond, a main character in Netflix series Santa Clarita Diet
- Joel Miller, protagonist of The Last of Us video game
- Joel Robinson, in the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000
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