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Joe Zieja

Joe Zieja (born 1985, Sparta, New Jersey) is an American voice actor and author, voice of Claude in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Fox McCloud in Star Fox Zero: The Battle Begins, Bumblebee, and author of the Epic Failure trilogy, ex-USAF intelligence officer.

Joe's Apartment

Joe's Apartment is a 1996 American musical comedy directed by John Payson, in which a young man's New York apartment is inhabited by talking, singing cockroaches.

Joe's College Road Trip

Tyler Perry's Joe's College Road Trip is a 2026 Netflix R-rated comedy spinoff of the Madea franchise, written, directed, and produced by Tyler Perry, starring Joe (Perry) taking grandson B.J. (Jermaine Harris) on a cross-country college trip; released February 13, 2026.

Joe's Garage

Joe's Garage is a 1979 rock opera by Frank Zappa, released as Act I and Acts II & III, telling of a young guitarist in a dystopian future where music is outlawed.

Joeanna Arthur

Joeanna Arthur is an American cognitive neuroscientist who applies vision science to geospatial intelligence, won a 2012 PECASE at NGA, and joined DARPA's Biological Technologies Office in 2022.

Joel (prophet)

Joel, also known as Joel the Prophet (Hebrew: יוֹאֵל), is a prophet of the Hebrew Bible whose short book describes a locust plague and the day of the LORD.

Joel (The Last of Us)

Joel is the protagonist of Naughty Dog's The Last of Us (2013), voiced by Troy Baker and played by Pedro Pascal on HBO; his hospital choice to save Ellie over a cure, and his death in Part II and season 2, made him gaming's most debated antihero.

Joel A. Huberman

Joel A. Huberman is an American molecular biologist known for work on eukaryotic DNA replication, who led a laboratory at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York.

Joel Abati

Joel Abati (Joël Marc Abati), French handball right back born 1970 in Fort-de-France, Martinique; Olympic gold 2008, world champion 2001 and 2009, decade at SC Magdeburg.

Joel Asaph Allen

Joel Asaph Allen (1838–1921) was an American zoologist who formulated Allen's rule, that warm-blooded animals in colder climates have shorter extremities, and curated birds and mammals at the American Museum of Natural History.

Joel Azumah

Joel Azumah is an American politician and the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in New York's 9th district, having run for the seat in 2018 and 2020.

Joel Bakan

Joel Bakan is a legal scholar and filmmaker, professor of law at the University of British Columbia, best known for The Corporation (2003) and its award-winning documentary.

Joel Bar-El

Joel Bar-El is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Trax, a Singapore-based retail computer vision company, in 2010 and led it as chief executive from 2011 to 2021.

Joel Barlow

Joel Barlow (1754–1812), American poet and diplomat of the Connecticut Wits, wrote The Vision of Columbus and The Columbiad, negotiated Barbary treaties freeing American captives, and died in Poland in 1812.

Joel Berry II

Joel Berry II (Joel DeWayne Berry II) is an American point guard who played for North Carolina 2014-18, won the 2017 NCAA title, was Final Four Most Outstanding Player, and scored 20-plus points in consecutive championship games.

Joel C. Rosenberg

Joel C. Rosenberg is an American-Israeli novelist and journalist who founded the Jerusalem-based news outlets All Israel News and All Arab News on September 1, 2020, and edits both.

Joel Campbell

Joel Campbell (Joel Nathaniel Campbell Samuels, born 1992, San José) is a Costa Rican forward who debuted for Saprissa, joined Arsenal in 2011, starred at the 2014 World Cup, and earned over 100 caps for Costa Rica.

Joel Castro Pereira

Joel Castro Pereira (Joel Dinis Castro Pereira), Portuguese goalkeeper born 1996 in Le Locle, Switzerland; ex-Manchester United (2017 Premier League debut), RKC Waalwijk, now Reading first-choice keeper in League One.

Joel Chandler Harris

Joel Chandler Harris (1845-1908), Georgia journalist and folklorist, creator of the Uncle Remus tales; associate editor of the Atlanta Constitution 1876-1900, author of 185 Brer Rabbit folktales.

Joel Chua

Joel Respall Chua represents Manila's 3rd District and chairs the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability. He led the investigation into Vice President Sara Duterte.

Joel Coen

Joel Coen (born 1955, Minneapolis) is an American film director, screenwriter, and editor of the Coen brothers duo with Ethan Coen; Blood Simple, Fargo, No Country for Old Men; Palme d'Or and Oscar winner; solo films The Tragedy of Macbeth and Jack of Spades.

Joel Corry

Joel Corry is an English DJ and producer, born in London in 1989, whose 2020 single "Head & Heart" with MNEK spent six weeks at UK Number 1.

Joel Courtney

Joel Courtney (born 1996) is an American actor from Monterey, California, raised in Moscow, Idaho, known for Super 8 (2011) and Netflix's The Kissing Booth trilogy as Lee Flynn.

Joel D. Blum

Joel D. Blum is an American geochemist at the University of Michigan known for mercury isotope geochemistry and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Joel D. Kopple

Joel D. Kopple, born 1938 in Chicago, is an American nephrologist who led the nephrology division at Harbor-UCLA for 25 years, co-founded World Kidney Day, and established renal nutrition guidelines.

Joel D. Meyers

Joel D. Meyers was an American physician and infectious disease epidemiologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center who identified cytomegalovirus risk factors in bone marrow transplant patients.

Joel D. Richter

Joel D. Richter is an American molecular biologist and professor at UMass Chan Medical School, known for work on mRNA translational control by cytoplasmic polyadenylation and the CPEB protein.

Joel Dahmen

Joel Dahmen (born 1987, Clarkston, Washington) is an American PGA Tour golfer, 2021 Corales Puntacana Championship winner, testicular cancer survivor, and Netflix Full Swing personality.

Joel David Hamkins

Joel David Hamkins is an American mathematician and philosopher working in logic and set theory, known for the set-theoretic multiverse view and infinite time Turing machines.

Joel David Moore

Joel David Moore (born 1977, Portland, Oregon), American actor, director, and producer; plays Norm Spellman in James Cameron's Avatar films, broke out in Dodgeball (2004), founded Balcony 9 in 2019, and directed Spiral and Youth in Oregon.