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.

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
 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 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 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 (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 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 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 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