Joel (given name)

Joel
	Michelangelo's painting of the Biblical prophet
Pronunciation	/ˈdʒoʊəl/ JOH-əl,; /ˈdʒoʊl/ JOHL
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Hebrew
Meaning	"YHWH is God"
Other names
Related names	Joe, Joey, Joelle, Joelson

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.

Joel as a given name[edit]

Biblical figures[edit]

Joel, Jewish Biblical prophet
Joel (biblical figure), several minor figures in the Hebrew Bible

Others[edit]

Joel of Dotawo, Sudanese ruler
Joel Achenbach (born 1960), American staff writer for The Washington Post and author
Joel Acosta (born 1991), Argentine footballer
Joel Amoroso (born 1998, Argentine footballer
Joel Anderson (born 1960), California politician
Joël Ayayi (born 2000), French basketball player
Joel John Bailey (born 1980), Canadian soccer player
Joel Conrad Bakan (born 1959), Canadian lawyer and writer
Yoel Chehanovich (born 1993), Israeli footballer
Joel Barbosa (born 1983), Argentine footballer
Joel Barlow (1754–1812), American poet and politician
Joel Barnett (1923–2014), British politician
Joel Barr (1916–1998) American spy for the Soviet Union
Joël Batteux (1943–2021), French politician
Joel Beckett (born 1973), English actor
Joel Beinin (born 1948), American historian of the Middle East
Joel Benjamin (born 1964), American chess grandmaster
Joel Berghult (born 1988), Swedish musician and YouTuber
Joel Bomgar (born 1980), American businessman and politician
Joel Bouagnon (born 1995), American football player
Joël Bouchard (born 1974), Canadian ice hockey player
Joel Bowden (born 1978), 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 (born 1949), American actor
Joel Brutus (born 1974), Haitian judoka
Joel Carli (born 1986), Argentine retired footballer
Joel Carpenter (1914–1965), American screenwriter
Joel Carreño (born 1987), Dominican baseball player
Joel Casamayor (born 1981), Cuban boxer
Joel Chan (actor) (born 1976), Hong Kong actor and singer
Joel Chan (photographer), Singaporean photographer
Joel Clinton (born 1981), Australian rugby footballer
Joel Coen (born 1954), American director and producer
Joel Connable (1973–2012), American news reporter, paramedic, and private pilot
Joel Courtney (born 1996), American actor
Joel Crawford (director), American story artist and film director
Joel Crawford (politician) (1783–1858), American politician, soldier and lawyer
Joel Crothers (1941–1985), American actor
Joel Cummins (born 1975), American musician
Joel DeLisa, American physiatrist
Joel Dommett (born 1985), British comedian, actor and presenter
Joel Dorn (1942–2007), American music producer and record label entrepreneur
Joel Edgerton (born 1974), Australian actor
Joel Ekelöf, Swedish vocalist of the band Soen
Joel Embiid (born 1994), Cameroonian basketball player
Joel Engle (born 1968), American recording artist
Joel Erhardt (1838–1909), Commissioner of Police of New York City
Joel Fabiani (born 1936), American actor
Joel Feinberg (1926–2004), American political and social philosopher
Joel Fitzgibbon (born 1962), Australian politician
Joel Freeland (born 1987), British basketball player
Joël Fuchs (born 1989), Swiss basketball player
Joel Fuhrman (born 1953), American physician and author
Joel Garner (born 1952), West Indian cricketer
Joel Garreau (born 1948), American journalist and author
Joel Geist (born 1982), American actor
Joel Gerber (1940–2022) Chief Judge of the United States Tax Court
Joel Gertner (born 1975), American wrestling personality
Joel Gion (born 1970 or 1971), American musician
Joel Gistedt (born 1987), Swedish ice hockey player
Joel Glazer (born 1967), part of the Glazer family
Joel Glucksman (born 1949), American Olympic fencer
Joel Godard (born 1938), 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 Gordon, Canadian actor and filmmaker
Joel Gordon (American football), American football coach and former player
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 (born 1957), American academic, hedge fund manager, investor, and writer
Joel Gretsch (born 1963), American actor
Joel Grey (born 1932), American actor
Joel Hailey (born 1969), American musician
Joel Hanrahan (born 1981), American baseball player
Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908), American journalist
Joel Heath (born 1903), American football player
Joel Hefley (born 1935), American politician
Joel Heyman (born 1971), American voice actor
Joel Higgins (born 1943), American actor and singer
Joel Henry Hildebrand (1881–1983) American educator and a pioneer chemist
Joel Hirschhorn (1937–2005), American songwriter
Joel Hodgson (born 1960), 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 (born 1979), Australian musician and songwriter, worship leader at the Hillsong Church
Joel Hurt (1850–1926), American businessman and developer
Joel Hyatt (born 1950), American businessman, attorney and politician
Joel Isasi (born 1967), Cuban sprinter
Joel Iyiegbuniwe (born 1995), American football player
Joël Jeannot (born 1965), French Olympic wheelchair racer
Joel Jones (born 1981), Puerto Rican basketball player
Yoel Juárez (born 2002), Argentine footballer
Joel Kaplan (born 1969), American political advisor
Joel Kauffman (born 1985), American stock car racer
Joel Kinnaman (born 1979), Swedish-American actor
Joel Klein (born 1946), Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education
Joel Kovel (1936–2018), American politician, academic, writer and eco-socialist
Joel Kramer (born 1955), American basketball player
Joel Kwiatkowski (born 1977), Canadian ice hockey player
Joel Landau, American entrepreneur, founder of The Allure Group
Joel Landau (rabbi), American rabbi
Joel Lane (1963–2013), 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 (born 1942), American planetary and atmospheric scientist
Joel López Pissano (born 1997), Argentine footballer
Joel Löwe (1760–1802), German Biblical commentator
Joel Luani (born 1992), Australian rugby player
Joel Lundqvist (born 1982), Swedish ice hockey player
Joel Lynch (born 1987), British football player
Joel Madden (born 1979), American musician, lead vocalist for Good Charlotte
Joel Dawit Makonnen (born 1982), Ethiopian prince
Joel Makower (born 1952), 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 (1905–1990), American actor
Joel McHale (born 1971), American actor and host
Joel McIlroy (born 1973), Australian actor
Joel McIver (born 1971), British author
Joel McNeely (born 1959), American music composer for movies and television
Joël Mergui (born 1958), French Jewish official
Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938), American photographer
Joel Meyers, American sportscaster
Joel David Moore (born 1977), American actor
Joel Moses (1941–2022), Israel-born American computer scientist
Joel Müller (1897–1895) German rabbi
Joel Muñoz (born 1980), Panamanian basketball player
Joel Murray (born 1963), American actor
Joel Myers (born 1939), American businessman, founder, president and chairman of the board of AccuWeather, Inc.
Joël Gustave Nana Ngongang (1982–2015), Cameroonian activist for LGBT human rights & HIV/AIDS in Africa
Joel Oppenheimer (1930–1988) American poet
Joel Osteen (1983), American author, pastor, and televangelist
Joel Otto (1961), American ice hockey player
Joel Palmer (1810–1881), American pioneer, author and politician
Joel Parker (American football) (b. 1952), American football player
Joel Parker (clergyman) (1799–1873), American Presbyterian clergyman
Joel Parker (jurist) (1795–1875), American jurist from New Hampshire
Joel Parker (politician) (1816–1888), American politician for the Democratic Party
Joel Peralta (born 1976), Dominican baseball player
Joel Perovuo (born 1985), Finnish football player
Joel Pimentel (born 1999), American singer
Joel Piñeiro (born 1978), American baseball player
Joel Plaskett (born 1975), Canadian rock musician
Joel Pohjanpalo (born 1995), Finnish football player
Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779–1851), American physician, botanist and diplomat
Joel Porter (born 1978), Australian football player
Joel Primack (born 1945), American professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Joel Przybilla (born 1979), American basketball player
Joel Robles (born 1990), Spanish football player
Yoel Rodríguez (born 1988), Spanish footballer
Joel Quarrington (born 1955), Canadian bass player and soloist
Joel Quenneville (born 1958), Canadian former ice hockey defenceman, and coach of the NHL's Florida Panthers
Joel Reddy (born 1985), Australian Rugby League player
Joel Rifkin (born 1959), American serial killer
Joel Augustus Rogers (1880–1966), Jamaican-American author, journalist and historian
Yoel Romero (born 1977), Cuban wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
Joel Rosenberg (1954–2011), Canadian-American science fiction and fantasy author
Joel C. Rosenberg (born 1967), American author and communications strategist
Joel Ross, American tennis player
Joel Roth, American rabbi in the Rabbinical Assembly
Joel Sacks (born 1989), Argentine footballer
Joel Salatin (born 1975), American farmer, lecturer, and author
Yoel Moshe Salomon (1838–1912), Ottoman newspaper publisher and co-founder of towns
Joel Santana (born 1948), Brazilian manager and former football player
Joel Schumacher (1939–2020) American director and producer
Joel Sclavi (born 1994), Argentine rugby union player
Joel Selwood (born 1988), Australian Rules footballer
Joel Shapiro (born 1941), American sculptor
Joel Shatzky (1943–2020), American writer and literary professor
Joel Shepherd (born 1974), Australian science fiction author
Joel Sherman (born 1962), American Scrabble expert
Joel ibn Shu'aib, 15th-century rabbi from Aragon
Joel Siegel (1943-2007), American film critic
Joel Silbersher (born 1971), musician from Australia
Joel Silver (born 1952), American film producer
Joel Sirkis (1561–1640), Central European rabbi
Joel Skinner (born 1961), American baseball player and coach
Joel Sonnenberg (born 1977), Christian motivational speaker
Joel Soriano (born 2000), American basketball player
Joel Elias Spingarn (1875–1939), American civil rights activist
Yoel Sela (born 1951), Israeli Olympic competitive sailor
Joel Spitzer (born 1957), American smoking cessation educator
Joel Spolsky (born 1965), American software engineer
Joel Stebbins (1878–1966), American astronomer who pioneered photoelectric photometry in astronomy
Joel Stein (born 1971), American journalist
Joel Steinberg (born 1941), New York criminal defense attorney
Joel Stelly (born 1984), American football player for the Chicago, IL Bears
Joel Sternfeld (born 1944), American photographer
Joel Stransky (born 1967), South African rugby union footballer
Joel Stroetzel (born 1980), American guitarist from the Massachusetts metalcore band Killswitch Engage
Joel Surnow (born 1955), American writer and producer
Joel Sweeney (1810–1860), American musician who popularized the banjo
Joel Teitelbaum (1887–1979), Hungarian Hasidic Rabbi and Talmudic scholar
Joel Thompson (politician) (1760–1843), United States Representative from New York
Joel Thompson (rugby league) (born 1988), Australian rugby league footballer
Joel Tobeck (born 1971), New Zealand film and television actor
Joel Tudor (born 1976), professional surfer from San Diego, California
Joel Turner (musician) (born 1987), Australian musician
Joel Veitch (born 1974), English web animator and member of the B3ta collective
Joel Vital (born 1987), Portuguese footballer known as Joel
Joël Voordewind (born 1965), Dutch politician
Joel Ward (footballer) (born 1989), English footballer
Joel Ward (ice hockey) (born 1980), ice hockey player
Joel Ward (magician) (born 1983), magician
Joel N. Ward (born 1959), foreign currency trader
Joel Waterman (born 1996), Canadian soccer player
Joel Wiener (born 1948/49), American billionaire real estate developer and landlord
Joel Wilson (American football) (born 2000), American football player
Joel Wilson (rugby) (born 1977), Australian rugby player
Joel Wilson (umpire) (born 1966), Trinidadian cricket umpire
Joel Yanofsky (1955–2020), Canadian novelist and literary columnist
Joel Youngblood (born 1951), American Major League baseball player
Joel Zifkin (born 1954), Canadian musician and songwriter from Montreal, QC
Joel Zimmerman (born 1981), Canadian progressive house and electro house DJ better known as deadmau5
Joel Zumaya (born 1984), American Major League Baseball relief pitcher
Joel Zwick (born 1942), American director of movies, theatre, and television shows

Fictional characters[edit]

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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