Joel (given name)
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Joel
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The Hebrew Bible is a term used by biblical scholars outside of Judaism to refer to the Tanakh , a canonical collection of Jewish texts, and the common textual antecedent of the several canonical editions of the Christian Old Testament...
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Joel as a given name
- Joel AchenbachJoel AchenbachJoel Leroy Achenbach is an American staff writer for the Washington Post and the author of seven books, including A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea, The Grand Idea, Captured by Aliens, It Looks Like a President only Smaller, and three compilations of his former syndicated newspaper column "Why...
, staff writer for The Washington Post and author - Joel AndersonJoel AndersonJoel Anderson is a California politician and Republican member of the California State Senate in the 36th Senate District. Before his election to the State Senate he was a member of the California Assembly representing the 77th Assembly District, and he also served on the Padre Dam Municipal Water...
, California politician - Joel Augustus RogersJoel Augustus RogersJoel Augustus Rogers was a Jamaican-American author, journalist, and historian who contributed to the history of Africa and the African diaspora, especially the history of African Americans in the United States. His research spanned the academic fields of history, sociology and anthropology...
, Jamaican author, journalist and historian - Joel John BaileyJoel John BaileyJoel John Bailey is a forward who last played for the Carolina RailHawks of the USL First Division. He played three seasons in Major Indoor Soccer League.-Indoor:...
, soccer player for the Montreal, QC Impact - Joel Conrad BakanJoel BakanJoel Conrad Bakan is a Canadian writer and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law.Born in Lansing, Michigan and raised for most of his childhood in East Lansing, Michigan where his parents, Paul and Rita Bakan, were both long-time professors in psychology at...
, Canadian lawyer and writer - Joel BarlowJoel BarlowJoel Barlow was an American poet, diplomat and politician. In his own time, Barlow was well-known for the epic Vision of Columbus. Modern readers may be more familiar with "The Hasty Pudding"...
, American poet and politician - Joel BarrJoel BarrJoel Barr , also Iozef Veniaminovich Berg and Joseph Berg, was part of the Soviet Atomic Spy Ring...
, part of the Soviet Atomic Spy Ring - Joel BeckettJoel BeckettJoel Beckett is an English actor, best known for playing Jake Moon in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders from December 2004 to October 2006 and as Lee in the British comedy series The Office...
, English actor - Joel BeininJoel BeininJoel Beinin is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University. From 2006 to 2008 he served as Director of Middle East Studies and Professor of History at the American University in Cairo.-Education:...
, professor - Joel BenjaminJoel BenjaminJoel Benjamin is an American chess Grandmaster. In 1998, he was voted "Grandmaster of the Year" by the U.S. Chess Federation. , his Elo rating was 2576, making him the No. 12 player in the U.S. and the 214th-highest rated player in the world.-Life and career:Benjamin is a native of Brooklyn, New...
, chess grandmaster - Joel BouchardJoel BouchardJoël Bouchard nicknamed "Mortimer" is a retired professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League. He is currently the president and general manager of the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.-Playing career:Bouchard last played for the...
, French Canadian professional ice hockey - Joel BowdenJoel BowdenJoel Bowden was an Australian rules footballer with the Richmond Football Club in the AFL. In 2007, he was declared the new president of the AFL Players Association....
, Australian rules footballer - Joel BrandJoel BrandJoel Brand was a Hungarian sailor and odd-job man who became known for his role during the Holocaust in trying to save the Hungarian-Jewish community from deportation to the Auschwitz concentration camp....
, played a prominent role in trying to save the Hungarian Jewish community - Joel BretonJoel BretonJoel Maximilian Breton is an international video game producer, video game designer, D.J. and entrepreneur. Joel is also known as an international super producer and he is best known for producing award winning video games including Bomberman Live, Unreal, Duke Nukem, and Pirates of the...
, game producer, international D.J. and entrepreneur - Joel BrindJoel BrindDr. Joel Brind is a professor, scientist, and a leading advocate of the abortion-breast cancer hypothesis. He is a professor of biology and endocrinology at Baruch College and critiques abortion-breast cancer studies.-Education:...
, pro-life born again Christian, scientist, and advocate of the abortion-breast cancer hypothesis - Joel BrittonJoel BrittonJoel Britton is an American Communist and serves on the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party. Britton is a longtime trade unionist having been a member of the United Food and Commercial Workers union as well as a member of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers union while working as a...
, American Communist - Joel BrutusJoel BrutusJoel Brutus is a male judoka from Haiti, who won the silver medal in the men's heavyweight division at the 2003 Pan American Games....
, Haitian judoka - Joel CasamayorJoel CasamayorJoel "El Cepillo" Casamayor Johnson is a Cuban boxer, who turned pro after defecting to the United States on the eve of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The nickname "El Cepillo", literally translated to "the brush", comes from his uppercut, which rakes his opponents across the face...
, Cuban boxer - Joel ChernoffJoel ChernoffJoel Chernoff is an American Singer-songwriter and a founding member of the music group Lamb.-External links:* - official website of Lamb and Joel Chernoff...
, Singer-songwriter and Messianic Jew, founder member of the music group Lamb - Joel ClintonJoel ClintonJoel Clinton is an Australian professional rugby league footballer with Hull Kingston Rovers of the European Super League and most previously the Brisbane Broncos of the National Rugby League...
, Australian rugby league footballer - Joel Coen, American director and producer
- Joel ConnableJoel ConnableJoel Connable is an American television host, news anchor and reporter. He is a former 6pm and 7pm news anchor at NBC6 in Miami. He was named "Best News Anchor," by the New Times Magazine in 2009...
, news reporter, paramedic, and former private pilot from Long Island, NY - Joel CourtneyJoel CourtneyJoel Courtney is an American actor. Courtney is most known for his role of Joseph "Joe" Lamb in the 2011 J. J. Abrams film Super 8. Courtney currently resides in Moscow, Idaho.-Acting career:...
, American actor - Joel Chandler HarrisJoel Chandler HarrisJoel Chandler Harris was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years...
, American journalist - Joel CrothersJoel CrothersJoel Anthony Crothers was an American actor who, in 1981, was noted by columnist Liz Smith to so strongly resemble Tom Selleck that they could be twin brothers...
, Actor - Joel CumminsJoel CumminsJoel Nathan Cummins is an American musician, and founding member/keyboardist for progressive rock band Umphrey's McGee....
, American musician - Joel DornJoel DornJoel Dorn was an American jazz and R&B music producer and record label entrepreneur. He worked at Atlantic Records, and later founded the 32 Jazz, Label M, and Hyena Records labels...
, American jazz and R&B music producer and record label serial entrepreneur - Joel EdgertonJoel EdgertonJoel Edgerton is an Australian film and television actor.-Early life:Edgerton was born in Blacktown, Sydney, to a homemaker mother and a solicitor/property developer father, Michael. His brother, Nash Edgerton, is a stuntman and filmmaker...
, Australian actor - Joel EngleJoel EngleJoel Engle is a Christian recording artist living in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. He has recorded the #1 song "Shadow of Your Cross" and the top 10 songs "Louder Than The Angels" and "Be A Father To Her." - Biography :...
, recording artist - Joel ErhardtJoel ErhardtJoel Benedict Erhardt was an American politician, civil servant, lawyer and businessman. He served as the police commissioner for the New York Police Department, U.S. Marshal for the Southern Port of New York, the Collector of the Port of New York and was the Republican candidate who ran against...
, Commissioner of Police of New York City - Joel FabianiJoel FabianiJoel Fabiani is an American film and television actor.Fabiani was born in Watsonville, California. He co-starred in the British espionage series Department S as Stewart Sullivan in 1969-1970...
, American actor - Joel FeinbergJoel FeinbergJoel Feinberg was an American political and social philosopher. He is known for his work in the fields of ethics, action theory, philosophy of law, and political philosophy as well as individual rights and the authority of the state...
, American political and social philosopher - Joel FitzgibbonJoel FitzgibbonJoel Andrew Fitzgibbon is an Australian politician and Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Hunter in New South Wales. From December 2007 to June 2009 he was the Minister for Defence in the Rudd Ministry...
, Australian politician - Joel Fleischman M.D., fictional central character of the TV series Northern Exposure
- Joel FreelandJoel FreelandJoel Freeland is a British professional basketball player. He is a forward-center. His playing style has been compared to that of David Lee of the Golden State Warriors and former NBA player Keon Clark...
, British basketball player - Joel FuhrmanJoel FuhrmanJoel Fuhrman, MD , is an American board-certified family physician who specializes in nutrition-based treatments for obesity and chronic disease. He is a member of the board of directors of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and serves as Research Director of the Nutritional Research...
, American family medicine physician and author - Joel GarnerJoel GarnerJoel Garner , also known as "Big Joel" or "Big Bird", is a former West Indian cricketer, and a member of the highly regarded late 1970s and early '80s West Indies cricket teams....
, West Indian International Cricketer (Fast bowler) - Joel GarreauJoel GarreauJoel Garreau is an American journalist, scholar and author of Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies – And What It Means to Be Human, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier and The Nine Nations of North America.In 2010, Garreau became the Lincoln Professor of Law,...
, American journalist and author - Joel GeistJoel GeistJoel T. Geist is an American actor.He is known for his performances on television, ranging from Doug in NBC's short lived drama Windfall, to his portrayal of real life, former prison inmate Alan Beaman, later exonerated after being found to be innocent, in the Discovery Channel's docu-drama Guilty...
, American actor - Joel GerberJoel GerberJoel Gerber was the Chief Judge of the United States Tax Court.Gerber received his B.S. in business administration from Roosevelt University in 1962 and his J.D. from DePaul University in 1965. He then rose through the ranks in the U.S...
, Chief Judge of the United States Tax Court - Joel GertnerJoel GertnerJoel Gertner is an American Professional wrestling announcer and manager best known for his work in Extreme Championship Wrestling.-Early career:...
, American Professional wrestling personality - Joel GionJoel GionJoel Gion is an American indie rock percussionist. He is a member of the neo-psychedelic rock band, The Brian Jonestown Massacre. He was a guest star on the U.S...
, American musician brother man - Joel GistedtJoel GistedtJoel Alf Ivar Gistedt is a professional Swedish ice hockey goaltender. He is currently playing for the Swedish team Rögle BK of the Allsvenskan...
, professional Swedish ice hockey player - Joel GlazerJoel GlazerJoel Glazer is 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...
, 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 GoldsmithJoel GoldsmithJoel Goldsmith is a composer of film, television, and video game music. He is the son of renowned composer Jerry Goldsmith. He was the main composer for the TV series Stargate SG-1, although the main titles were written by David Arnold...
, composer of film, television music and video games - Joel S. GoldsmithJoel S. GoldsmithJoel Solomon Goldsmith was a author, teacher, spiritual healer, mystic, and founder of The Infinite Way movement.- Early years :...
, author, teacher, spiritual healer, mystic and founder of the Infinite Way movement - Joel GodardJoel GodardJoel Clinton Godard, Jr. is an American television presenter, best known as the announcer for Late Night with Conan O'Brien during its entire 16-year run from 1993 to 2009.-Early life:...
, American television announcer - Joel GreenblattJoel GreenblattJoel Greenblatt is a value investor, and adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business...
, chairman of The St. Lawrence Seaway Corporation - Joel GretschJoel GretschJoel James Gretsch is an American actor. His roles include Tom Baldwin on the USA Network series The 4400, the monstruous Capt./Maj./Col. Owen Crawford in the Steven Spielberg produced 2002 sci-fi miniseries Taken and Father Jack Landry on V.-Early life:Gretsch was born in St...
, American actor - Joel GreyJoel GreyJoel Grey is an American stage and screen actor, singer, and dancer, best known for his role as the Master of Ceremonies in both the stage and film adaptation of the Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret. He has won the Academy Award, Tony Award and Golden Globe Award...
, American actor - Joel Gustave Nana NgongangJoel Gustave Nana NgongangJoël Gustave Nana Ngongang , frequently known as Joel Nana, is a leading African LGBT human rightsadvocate and HIV/AIDS activist. Nana's career as a human rights advocate has spanned numerous...
, African LGBT human rights activist - Joel HeymanJoel HeymanJoel Pearce Heyman is an actor who is frequently used in Rooster Teeth Productions machinima series, including Red vs. Blue as Private Michael J. Caboose/O'Malley and The Strangerhood as Wade, as well as Bidderman in 1-800-MAGIC. He also wrote 1-800-MAGIC, and occasional Rooster Teeth Shorts for...
, voice actor - Joel Hailey, American musician
- Joel HanrahanJoel HanrahanJoel Ryan Hanrahan , nicknamed The Hammer, is a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates.-Los Angeles Dodgers:...
, Major League Baseball player - Joel HefleyJoel HefleyJoel M. Hefley is a U.S Republican politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing the 5th Congressional District of Colorado from 1987 to 2007. His wife, Dr. Lynn Hefley, is, like he, a former member of the Colorado State House of Representatives...
, American politician - Joel HigginsJoel HigginsJoel Franklin Higgins is an American actors and singer with a stage career spanning over 30 years.- Life and Career :...
, American actor and singer - Joel HirschhornJoel HirschhornJoel Hirschhorn, , was an American songwriter. During a successful career, he won the Academy Award for Best Song on two occasions...
, American songwriter - Joel Henry HildebrandJoel Henry HildebrandJoel Henry Hildebrand was an American educator and a pioneer chemist. He was a major figure in chemistry research specializing in liquids and nonelectrolyte solutions.-Education and professorship:...
, American educator and a pioneer chemist - Joel HodgsonJoel HodgsonJoel Gordon Hodgson is an American writer, comedian and television actor. He is best known for creating Mystery Science Theater 3000 and starring in it as the character Joel Robinson. In 2007 MST3K was listed as "one of the top 100 television shows of all time" by Time.com...
, creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Joel Robinson, the character he plays on the show - Joel HomanJoel HomanJoel Homan is a child actor.He is perhaps best known for playing Dominic Hughes on the CBS show Yes, Dear, but has also starred as young "Charlie" in the remake of The Italian Job and the series L.A. Doctors....
, American actor - Joel Horlen, American All Star major league baseball pitcher
- Joel HoustonJoel HoustonJoel Timothy Houston is a musician, songwriter and pastor, best known as leader of the Sydney-based worship band Hillsong United, the youth worship band of Hillsong Church....
, song writer and worship leader at the Hillsong Church - Joel HurtJoel HurtJoel Hurt was an important businessman and developer in Atlanta active in the late 19th century through the early 20th century.Born in Hurtsboro, Alabama Joel Hurt (1850–1926) was an important businessman and developer in Atlanta active in the late 19th century through the early 20th...
, important businessman and developer - Joel HyattJoel HyattJoel Z. Hyatt is a prominent businessman and former attorney and American politician of the Democratic party. He is the founder of Hyatt Legal Services, and was featured in the law firm's television commercials speaking the slogan, "I'm Joel Hyatt and you have my word on it."Hyatt graduated from...
, prominent businessman, former attorney and American politician - Joel IsasiJoel IsasiJoel Isasi González is a former sprinter from Cuba who won an Olympic bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Barcelona 1992 and a silver medal at the 4 x 100 relay at the 1990 Goodwill Games. His personal best of 10.22 and 21.64 was both set during 1995.-External links:...
, former sprinter from Cuba - Joel JeannotJoel JeannotJoel Jeannot is a French Olympic wheelchair racer. At the 2004 Olympic Games, he finished 7th in the demonstration sport of Men's 1,500 m wheelchair. He also participated in the 2004 Summer Paralympics, where he took gold in the 10000 metre race and silver in the 4×400 metre relay...
, wheelchair racer - Joel JonesJoel JonesJoel Jones-Camacho is a Puerto Rican professional basketball player. Jones has played in the NCAA, National Superior Basketball League of Puerto Rico with Bayamón Cowboys, Ponce Lions and Quebradillas Pirates. and internationally in the Chinese Basketball Association with the Shandong Lions...
, Puerto Rican professional basketball player - Joel KauffmanJoel KauffmanJoel Kauffman , is a stock car racer. He was the driver of the #12 Supercuts Dodge Charger for FitzBradshaw Racing in the NASCAR Busch Series he was slated to run a full schedule, but after not performing in any starts for the team, he was released.Kauffman began his racing career at the age of ten...
, stock car racer - Joel KwiatkowskiJoel KwiatkowskiJoel Kwiatkowski is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Kwiatkowski currently plays in Switzerland's National League A for SC Bern.-Playing career:...
, Canadian ice hockey player for the Pittsburgh Penguins - Joel KleinJoel KleinJoel Irwin Klein was Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, the largest public school system in the United States, serving more than 1.1 million students in more than 1,600 schools...
, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education - Joel KovelJoel KovelJoel Kovel is an American politician, academic, writer, and eco-socialist. A practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst until the mid-1980s, he has lectured in psychiatry, anthropology, political science and communication studies. He has published many books on his work in psychiatry,...
, American politician, academic, writer and eco-socialist - Joel LaneJoel LaneJoel Lane is a British novelist, short story writer, poet, critic and anthology editor. He has twice received the British Fantasy Award.-Works:...
, British author, poet, critic and anthology editor - Joel LebowitzJoel LebowitzJoel L. Lebowitz is a mathematical physicist widely acknowledged for his outstanding contributions to statistical physics, statistical mechanics and many other fields of Mathematics and Physics...
, mathematical physicist - Joel LöweJoel LöweJoel Löwe was a German-Jewish Biblical commentator. He signed his name in Hebrew writings as Joel Bril, Bril being an acronym for "son of R. Judah Löb"....
, German Biblical commentator - Joel LundqvistJoel LundqvistJoel Lundqvist is a Swedish professional ice hockey centre, currently playing for Frölunda HC of Elitserien. He serves as the team's captain.-Early life:...
, Swedish professional ice hockey player with Dallas Stars in NHL. - Joel LynchJoel LynchJoel John Lynch is an English footballer who is currently plays for Football League Championship side Nottingham Forest. Lynch plays as a defender.-Brighton & Hove Albion:...
, professional British football player - Joel MaddenJoel MaddenJoel Rueben Madden is an American singer, record producer, actor, DJ, and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, best known as the lead vocalist for the pop punk band Good Charlotte.-Early life:...
, lead vocalist for the band Good Charlotte - Joel MakowerJoel MakowerJoel Makower is an entrepreneur, writer, and strategist on sustainable business, clean technology, and green marketing. For more than twenty years, he has been a respected voice on these topics, through books, websites, blogs, articles, and speeches...
, entrepreneur, writer, and strategist - Joel MeyersJoel MeyersJoel Meyers is an American sportscaster and former play-by-play announcer of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association on Fox Sports West and KCAL. Meyers left the Lakers at the end of the 2010-2011 season when the team did not renew his contract.-Career:Meyers joined the Lakers...
, American sportscaster - Joel McCormackJoel McCormackJoel McCormack is the designer of the NCR Corporation version of the p-code machine which is a kind of Stack machine popular in the 1970s as the preferred way to implement new computing architectures and languages such as Pascal and BCPL...
, designer of the NCR Corporation version of the p-code machine - Joel McCreaJoel McCreaJoel Albert McCrea was an American actor whose career spanned 50 years and appearances in over 90 films.-Early life:...
, actor
- Joel McDonald, an American voice actor and ADR director
- Joel McHaleJoel McHaleJoel Edward McHale is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, television producer, television personality, and voice artist. He is best known for hosting The Soup and for his role as Jeff Winger on Community....
, American actor and host - Joel McIlroyJoel McIlroyJoel McIlroy is an Australian actor, best known for being the second actor to take on the role of Flynn Saunders, a character of the popular soap opera Home and Away. McIlroy took over the role of Flynn in 2003 after Martin Dingle-Wall left the role in 2002.-Early years:Joel McIlroy grew up in the...
, Australian actor - Joel McIverJoel McIverJoel McIver is a British author. The best-known of his 20 books to date is the bestselling Justice For All: The Truth About Metallica, first published in 2004 and selling close to 50,000 copies in nine languages since then. McIver's other works include biographies of Black Sabbath, Slayer, Ice...
, British author - Joel McNeelyJoel McNeely-Biography:Joel McNeely was born in Madison, Wisconsin. Both of his parents were involved in music and theater, and as a child he played the piano, saxophone, bass, and flute...
, music composer for movies and television - Joel MeyerowitzJoel MeyerowitzJoel Meyerowitz is a street photographer who began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the idea of color photography as serious art...
, American photographer - Joel David Moore, American actor
- Joel MosesJoel MosesJoel Moses is an Israeli-American computer scientist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Joel Moses was born in Palestine in 1941 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1954. He attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn, New York...
, Israel-born American computer scientist - Joel MurrayJoel MurrayJoel Murray is an American actor who has starred in film and on television.-Early life:Murray, one of nine children, was born and raised in Wilmette, Illinois , the son of Lucille , a mail room clerk, and Edward J. Murray II, a lumber salesman. Murray, along with his siblings, grew up in an Irish...
, American actor - Joel N. MyersJoel N. MyersJoel N. Myers is founder, president and chairman of the board of AccuWeather, Inc., an American commercial weather service. AccuWeather provides forecasts and data to over 175,000 clients around the world and serves millions more through its free website, AccuWeather.com...
, founder, president and chairman of the board of AccuWeather, Inc. - Joel OppenheimerJoel OppenheimerJoel Lester Oppenheimer was an American poet associated with both the Black Mountain poets and the New York School. He was the first director of the St. Marks Poetry Project...
, American poet - Joel OsteenJoel OsteenJoel Scott Osteen is an American author, televangelist, and the senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. His ministry reaches over seven million broadcast media viewers weekly in over 100 nations around the world.-Biography:...
, American Author, Pastor, and Televangelist - Joel OttoJoel OttoJoel Stuart Otto is an American former professional ice hockey center and current assistant coach of the Calgary Hitmen of the major junior Western Hockey League...
, former American ice hockey player - Joel PalmerJoel PalmerGeneral Joel Palmer was an American pioneer of the Oregon Territory in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. He was born in Canada, and spent his early years in New York and Pennsylvania before serving as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives.Palmer traveled to the Oregon...
, author of an immigrant guidebook, co-founder of Dayton, Oregon, an Indian Affairs administrator, and a politician - Joel ParkerJoel ParkerJoel Parker was an American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 20th Governor of New Jersey from 1863–1866 and from 1871-1874.-Early life, family:...
, politician, Governor of New Jersey - Joel PeraltaJoel PeraltaJoel Peralta Gutiérrez is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays.-Career:Peralta signed with the Oakland Athletics as an amateur free agent in 1996. They released him in 1998...
relief pitcher on the Kansas City Royals of Major League - Joel PiñeiroJoel PiñeiroJoel Alberto Piñeiro is a Puerto Rican Major League Baseball starting pitcher. He is 6'1" tall and weighs 200 pounds. He is right-handed and made his major league debut on August 8, .-Career:...
, American Baseball Player - Joel PlaskettJoel PlaskettJoel Plaskett is a Canadian rock musician originally from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. He grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia and now resides across the harbour in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia...
, Canadian rock musician - Joel PorterJoel PorterJoel William Porter is an Australian football player who plays as a striker for the Hyundai A-League team Gold Coast United...
, Australian football (soccer) player - Joel PrimackJoel PrimackJoel R. Primack is a professor of physics and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is a member of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics. Dr. Primack received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1966 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1970. According to...
, professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics - Joel PrzybillaJoel PrzybillaJoel Przybilla is an American professional basketball player. A 7'1" center, he last played for the Charlotte Bobcats in the NBA.- High school career :...
, professional basketball player in the NBA - Joel QuarringtonJoel QuarringtonJoel Quarrington , is a Canadian double bass player, soloist and teacher.He was born in Toronto, and began playing the double bass at the age of eleven in order to complete a bluegrass trio with his brothers, Paul Quarrington and Tony Quarrington...
, Canadian bass player and soloist - Joel QuennevilleJoel QuennevilleJoel Norman Quenneville is the head coach of the Chicago Blackhawks professional ice hockey team. He is a former ice hockey defenseman and former head coach of the Colorado Avalanche and St. Louis Blues...
, Canadian former defenceman and coach of the NHL's Colorado Avalanche - Joel RifkinJoel RifkinJoel David Rifkin is an American serial killer convicted of the murder of nine women , mostly drug addicted prostitutes, between 1989 and 1993 in New York City...
, American serial killer - Joel Roberts PoinsettJoel Roberts PoinsettJoel Roberts Poinsett was a physician, botanist and American statesman. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives, the first United States Minister to Mexico , a U.S...
, physician, botanist and American statesman - Joel RobinsonJoel RobinsonJoel Robinson is a fictional character featured in the American science fiction comedy television series Mystery Science Theater 3000...
, fictional character in the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) - Joel RosenbergJoel Rosenberg (science fiction author)Joel Rosenberg was a Canadian American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his long-running "Guardians of the Flame" series. Rosenberg was also a guns rights activist...
, science fiction and fantasy author - Joel C. RosenbergJoel C. RosenbergJoel C. Rosenberg is an American communications strategist, author of the Last Jihad series, and founder of The Joshua Fund...
, author and a communications strategist - Joel RothJoel RothJoel Roth is a prominent American rabbi in the Rabbinical Assembly, which is the rabbinical body of Conservative Judaism. He is a former member and chair of the assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards which deals with questions of Jewish law and tradition, and serves as the Louis...
, American rabbi in the Rabbinical Assembly - Joel SalatinJoel SalatinJoel F. Salatin is an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include You Can Farm and Salad Bar Beef.Salatin raises livestock using holistic methods of animal husbandry, free of potentially harmful chemicals, on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley...
, American farmer, lecturer, and author - Joel SantanaJoel SantanaJoel Natalino Santana is a Brazilian football head coach and former football player. He is the current head coach of Bahia.-Biography:...
, Brazilian manager and former football player - Joel SelwoodJoel SelwoodJoel Anthony Selwood is an Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League...
, Australian Rules footballer - Joel SchumacherJoel SchumacherJoel T. Schumacher is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.-Early life:Schumacher was born in New York City, the son of Marian and Francis Schumacher. His mother was a Swedish Jew, and his father was a Baptist from Knoxville, Tennessee, who died when Joel was four years old...
, American director and producer - Joel ShapiroJoel ShapiroJoel Shapiro is an American sculptor renowned for his dynamic work composed of simple rectangular shapes. Shapiro is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York. He lives and works in New York City, with a summer house on the shore of Lake Champlain, in Westport, New York...
, American sculptor - Joel ShepherdJoel ShepherdJoel Shepherd is an Australian science fiction author. He moved to Perth, Western Australia with his family when he was seven, where he later studied film and television arts at Curtin University....
, Australian science fiction author - Joel ShermanJoel ShermanJoel Sherman , nicknamed "GI Joel", is a top American Scrabble expert and former world champion. He is chronicled in Stefan Fatsis's book Word Freak, in Eric Chaikin's film Word Wars, and in Scott Petersen's film Scrabylon. He is also mentioned in Collins Gem's reference book...
, American Scrabble expert - Joel SiegelJoel SiegelJoel Siegel was an American film critic for the ABC morning news show Good Morning America for over 25 years. Born to a Jewish family of Romanian descent, and raised in Los Angeles, California, he graduated cum laude from UCLA. His Romanian-born grandmother from Botoşani survived the Triangle...
, American film critic - Joel SilbersherJoel SilbersherJoel Silbersher is a musician from Melbourne, Australia, who was the singer and guitar player for rock and roll band, GOD . GOD had a minor but enduring hit with "My Pal," a song written by Silbersher. Since its release in 1988, "My Pal" has been covered by bands such as Magic Dirt, Violent Soho,...
, musician from Melbourne, Australia - Joel SilverJoel SilverJoel Silver is an American Hollywood film producer, co-creator of the sport of Ultimate, co-founder of Dark Castle Entertainment and owner of Silver Pictures.-Life and career:...
, producer - Joel SkinnerJoel SkinnerJoel Patrick Skinner is a former Major League Baseball catcher and former third base coach of the Cleveland Indians. Skinner was dismissed effective with the end of the 2009 season on September 30, 2009. He is the son of Bob Skinner, a National League outfielder in the 1950s and '60s...
, former catcher in Major League Baseball and coach - Joel Elias SpingarnJoel Elias SpingarnJoel Elias Spingarn was an American educator, literary critic, and civil rights activist.-Biography:Spingarn was born in New York City to a well-to-do family. He graduated from Columbia College in 1895...
, American educator and literary critic - Joel SpolskyJoel SpolskyAvram Joel Spolsky is a software engineer and writer. He is the author of Joel on Software, a blog on software development. He was a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team between 1991 and 1994. He later founded Fog Creek Software in 2000 and launched the Joel on Software blog...
, software engineer - Joel StebbinsJoel StebbinsJoel Stebbins was an American astronomer who pioneered photoelectric photometry in astronomy. He earned his Ph.D at the University of California. He was director of the University of Illinois Observatory from 1903 to 1922 where he performed innovative work with the selenium cell...
, American astronomer who pioneered photoelectric photometry in astronomy - Joel SteinJoel SteinJoel Stein is a journalist who wrote for the Los Angeles Times and is a regular contributor to Time.-Early life:Stein grew up in Edison, New Jersey and attended J. P. Stevens High School, where he was a writer and entertainment editor for Hawkeye, the student newspaper...
, American journalist - Joel SteinbergJoel SteinbergJoel Steinberg , a former New York criminal defense attorney, attracted international media attention when he was accused of murder and convicted of manslaughter in the November 1, 1987, death of a six-year-old girl, Elizabeth , whom he and his live-in partner Hedda Nussbaum had illegally adopted...
, New York criminal defense attorney - Joel StellyJoel StellyJoel Stelly is a former American football player who most recently played Chicago Bears of the National Football League. He attended Cecilia High School and the University of Louisiana at Monroe, where he spent his collegiate football career as place kicker and punter...
, American football player for the Chicago, IL Bears - Joel SternfeldJoel SternfeldJoel Sternfeld, , is a fine-art color photographer noted for his large-format documentary pictures of the United States and helping establish color photography as a respected artistic medium. He has many works in the permanent collections of the MOMA in New York City and the Getty Center in Los...
, photographer - Joel StranskyJoel StranskyJoel Theodore Stransky is a former South African rugby union rugby player, most notable for scoring all of South Africa's points, including the famous dramatic winning drop goal, against New Zealand in the 1995 Rugby World Cup final. He played as a fly-half.-Early life:Stransky was born in...
, South African rugby union footballer - Joel StroetzelJoel StroetzelJoel Michael Stroetzel is best known as one of two guitarists from the Massachusetts metalcore band Killswitch Engage.Stroetzel's guitar style is influenced by the bands Slayer, Anthrax, Zakk Wylde, as stated on the World Ablaze DVD....
, guitarist from the Massachusetts metalcore band Killswitch Engage - Joel SurnowJoel SurnowJoel Surnow is an American writer and producer best known for being the creator of the television series 24 and La Femme Nikita. He also produced the Fox News Channel The 1/2 Hour News Hour.-Biography:...
, American writer and producer - Joel Tenenbaum, an American student student sued by the RIAA for filesharing
- Joel TeitelbaumJoel TeitelbaumJoel Teitelbaum, known as Reb Yoelish or the Satmar Rav , was a prominent Hungarian Hasidic rebbe and Talmudic scholar. He was probably the best known Haredi opponent of all forms of modern political Zionism...
, Hungarian Hasidic Rabbi and Talmudic scholar - Joel ThompsonJoel ThompsonJoel Thompson was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Stanford, Dutchess County, he attended the common schools in Smyrna. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced in Duanesburg and Sherburne...
, FederalistFederalistThe term federalist describes several political beliefs around the world. Also, it may refer to the concept of federalism or the type of government called a federation...
member of the United States House of RepresentativesUnited States House of RepresentativesThe United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution... - Joel Turner (musician)Joel Turner (musician)Joel Turner is an Australian beatboxer, singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and record producer best known for the Australian hit song "These Kids". As a beatboxer, he is recognised for his raw power, deep bass, and trademark sounds such as his "third voice", cowbell, teeth beats and bass guitar...
, musician - Joel VeitchJoel VeitchJoel Veitch is a British web animator, singer-songwriter, and member of the humour website B3ta. Veitch is owner of the web site RatherGood where he showcases many of his animations. Joel has also created the Mr...
, English web animator and member of the B3ta collective - Joel Walker Sweeney, musician
- Joel WardJoel Ward (ice hockey)Joel Ward is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League .-Early life:...
, Canadian professional ice hockey player - Joel YanofskyJoel YanofskyJoel Yanofsky is a Canadian novelist and literary columnist.Born in Montreal, Quebec, he grew up in the Laval suburb of Chomedey, where his parents had moved from the Montreal Jewish neighbourhood around St...
, Canadian novelist and literary columnist - Joel YoungbloodJoel YoungbloodJoel Randolph Youngblood III is a former Major League Baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, Montreal Expos and San Francisco Giants from to . Youngblood was a versatile player who could play many different positions, as well as pinch hit...
, retired Major League baseball player - Joel ZifkinJoel ZifkinJoel Zifkin is a Canadian musician and songwriter born in Montreal on April 14, 1954. He is best known as a session and live musician for artists such as Kate and Anna McGarrigle and Richard Thompson...
, Canadian musician and songwriter from Montreal, QC - Joel Zimmerman, Canadian progressive house and electro house DJ better known as deadmau5Deadmau5Joel Thomas Zimmerman , better known by his stage name deadmau5 , is a Canadian progressive, electro, and house producer based in Toronto...
- Joel ZumayaJoel ZumayaJoel Martin Zumaya is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher known for his record-breaking fastballs.-Baseball career:...
, Major League Baseball relief pitcher - Joel ZwickJoel ZwickJoel Zwick is an American film, television and theatre director. He is best known for his work on Perfect Strangers, Full House, Family Matters and well as directing the films My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Second Sight and Fat Albert.Born in Brooklyn, New York, he was educated at Brooklyn College...
, American director of movies, theatre, and television shows - Joel as mentioned on MTV live on August 22 2011, back-doored Kim Kardashian