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Joel Haver

Joel Haver, Canadian-born YouTuber filmmaker based in New York, makes free feature films and AI-assisted rotoscope animations (Havermation) via EbSynth; known for 12 Movies in 12 Months (2024) and a Patreon-funded animated feature.

Joel Henry Hildebrand

Joel Henry Hildebrand (1881–1983) was an American physical chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for regular solution theory, the Hildebrand solubility parameter, and teaching about 40,000 students.

Joel Hodgson

Joel Hodgson (born 1960, Stevens Point, Wisconsin) is an American comedian and prop builder, creator and original host of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988, KTMA-TV), who left in 1993 and later revived the show via a record $5.7 million Kickstarter.

Joel Hoekstra

Joel Hoekstra is an American rock guitarist, a member of Whitesnake since 2014 and formerly of Night Ranger, also playing for Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Cher, and Broadway's Rock of Ages, with solo records under Joel Hoekstra's 13.

Joel Houston

Joel Houston is an Australian songwriter and worship leader who fronts Hillsong United, son of Hillsong founders Brian and Bobbie Houston, and co-writer of "Oceans".

Joel J. Alpert

Joel J. Alpert (1930–2013) was an American pediatrician who chaired pediatrics at Boston University for 21 years and pioneered primary care training, leading the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Joel Kaufman

Joel Kaufman, also known as Joel D. Kaufman, is an American physician-epidemiologist at the University of Washington who established that long-term air pollution exposure accelerates atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.

Joel Kellman

Joel Kellman is an American venture capitalist who co-founded GGV Capital in 2000 and earlier spent nearly two decades as a partner at Fenwick & West.

Joel Kim Booster

Joel Kim Booster (Kim Joonmin, born 1988) is a Korean-born American comedian, actor, and writer, known for Fire Island, Psychosexual, and Loot, and his 'hot idiot' persona.

Joel Kinnaman

Joel Kinnaman (Charles Joel Nordström Kinnaman, born 1979) is a Swedish-American actor, Guldbagge winner for Snabba Cash, known as Stephen Holder in The Killing, Rick Flag in Suicide Squad, and Ed Baldwin in For All Mankind.

Joel Klatt

Joel Klatt, former Colorado Buffaloes quarterback (7,375 career passing yards, 44 school records), is FOX Sports' lead college football game analyst with Gus Johnson, lead UFL analyst with Curt Menefee, host of The Joel Klatt Show, and EA Sports College Football 27 commentator.

Joel L. Dawson

Joel L. Dawson is an electrical engineer who works on radio-frequency integrated circuits for wireless and implanted medical devices, and an MIT associate professor who received a PECASE award.

Joel L. Lebowitz

Joel L. Lebowitz is an American statistical mechanician, born in 1930 in Czechoslovakia, who has been George William Hill Professor at Rutgers University since 1977, winning the Boltzmann Medal.

Joel L. Moake

Joel L. Moake is a physician-scientist in hematology at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine who discovered how von Willebrand factor drives platelet clumping in TTP.

Joel L. Rosenbaum

Joel L. Rosenbaum is an American cell biologist and Yale professor emeritus whose laboratory discovered intraflagellar transport, opening the study of ciliary diseases called ciliopathies.

Joel L. Sussman

Joel L. Sussman is a structural biologist and Professor Emeritus at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for determining the first 3D structure of acetylcholinesterase and co-developing Proteopedia.

Joël Le Scouarnec

Joël Le Scouarnec, French former digestive surgeon born 1950, convicted May 2025 by the Vannes cour criminelle of raping or assaulting 299 child patients (1989–2014) and sentenced to 20 years, after a 2005 suspended conviction.

Joel Levine

Joel S. Levine (born 1942) is an American planetary and atmospheric scientist who spent 41 years at NASA Langley, conceived the ARES Mars airplane, and chaired the panel that chose MAVEN.

Joel Little

Joel Little is a Grammy-winning New Zealand songwriter and producer from Auckland, known for co-writing and producing Lorde's "Royals" and works with Taylor Swift, Khalid, and Imagine Dragons; he fronts Goodnight Nurse and founded BIG FAN.

Joel M. Bowman

Joel M. Bowman is an American theoretical chemist and Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor Emeritus at Emory University, known for reaction dynamics, permutationally invariant potential energy surfaces, and the roaming atom mechanism.

Joel M. Carson III

Joel M. Carson III, also known as Joel McElroy Carson III, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2018.

Joel M. Palefsky

Joel M. Palefsky is an infectious diseases physician and professor of medicine at UCSF known for research on HPV and anal cancer prevention in people with HIV.

Joel Madden

Joel Madden (Joel Ryan Rueben Combs), born 1979 in Waldorf, Maryland, is the lead vocalist and co-founder, with twin brother Benji Madden, of the pop-punk band Good Charlotte, known for The Young and the Hopeless (2002); later The Madden Brothers, MDDN, The Voice Australia, Ink Master.

Joël Matip

Joël Matip (Joel Matip), Cameroonian-German centre-back born 1991; Schalke 04 (258 games) then Liverpool 2016-2024 on a free transfer, 201 games, 2019 Champions League and 2020 Premier League winner; retired October 2024.

Joel McCrea

Joel McCrea (1905-1990), American film actor in 86 pictures, star of Sullivan's Travels, Foreign Correspondent, and Westerns from 1946 onward, ending with Ride the High Country (1962); also a Ventura County rancher.

Joel McHale

Joel McHale (born 1971, Rome, Italy) is an American comedian, actor, and host known for E!'s The Soup (2004–2015) and Jeff Winger on Community, now starring in Fox's Animal Control.

Joel McKinnon Miller

Joel McKinnon Miller, American character actor born 1960 in Rockford, Minnesota; played Detective Norm Scully on Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Don Embry on Big Love, after training in opera at Minnesota Duluth.

Joel Mejia

Joel Alejandro Mejia is an engineering-education researcher who heads the Department of Engineering and Computing Education at the University of Cincinnati and received the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Joel Meyerowitz

Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938) is an American street, portrait, and landscape photographer who pioneered color photography as art in the 1960s and photographed Ground Zero after 2001.

Joel Mokyr

Joel Mokyr, born 1946 in Leiden, the Netherlands, is an American economic historian at Northwestern University who won half of the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.