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Josh Turner

Josh Turner (born 1977) is an American country singer from Hannah, South Carolina, a bass-baritone known for "Long Black Train" and "Your Man," a Grand Ole Opry member with five No. 1 singles and 6 billion streams.

Josh Tymon

Josh Tymon (Joshua Lewis Tymon, born 1999, Hull) is an English left-back for Swansea City, formerly of Hull City and Stoke City, contracted to Swansea until June 2029.

Josh van der Flier

Josh van der Flier, Irish openside flanker for Leinster and Ireland, born 1993 in Dublin of Dutch descent; 2022 World Rugby Men's 15s Player of the Year, 2022 EPCR Player of the Year, 2025 British & Irish Lions tourist.

Josh Wardle

Josh Wardle is a Welsh software engineer who created Wordle, sold to The New York Times in 2022, and earlier made Reddit's April Fools' experiments The Button and Place.

Josh Warrington

Josh Warrington, "The Leeds Warrior" (born 1990, Leeds), English featherweight boxer; two-time IBF world featherweight champion (2018-2022), first world champion from Leeds; later lost to Lara, Lopez, Wood, and Cacace.

Josh Widdicombe

Josh Widdicombe (Joshua Michael Widdicombe, born 1983) is an English stand-up comedian and presenter, co-host of The Last Leg, two-time Taskmaster winner, Parenting Hell podcaster, and new 2026 Strictly Come Dancing host.

Josh Williams (Ohio politician)

Josh Williams is an American Republican politician representing Ohio's 44th House district, serving as majority whip in the 136th General Assembly during his second term.

Josh Williams (running back)

Josh Williams (born 2001) is an NFL running back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, signed as an undrafted free agent in 2025 after playing at LSU (2019-24); son of former NFL back Jermaine Williams.

Josh Windass

Josh Windass (Joshua Dean Windass, born 1994, Hull) is an English attacking midfielder-forward for Wrexham; formerly Accrington, Rangers, Wigan, Sheffield Wednesday; scored the 123rd-minute winner in the 2023 League One play-off final.

Josh Wolf (comedian)

Josh Wolf (comedian), also Joshua Wolf, American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer from Boston/Amherst, Massachusetts; Chelsea Lately roundtable regular, host of The Josh Wolf Show, author of It Takes Balls; birth year disputed (1969 vs 1974).

Josh Wright

Josh Wright (Joshua Thomas Wright, born 1989, London) is an English central midfielder and manager at Ebbsfleet United, National League South; ex-Charlton, Millwall, Gillingham captain; brother of Mark Wright; England U19, 1 cap.

Josh Zuckerman

Josh Zuckerman (Joshua Ryan Zuckerman), American actor born 1985 in Stanford, California; known for Sex Drive, 90210's Max Miller, Desperate Housewives' Eddie Orlofsky, and Mr. Martin on School Spirits; also directed An Orgy in Joshua Tree.

Josha Stradowski

Josha Stradowski, Dutch actor born 1995 in Rotterdam, plays Rand al'Thor in The Wheel of Time (2021-2025); also known for Just Friends (2018), High Flyers, and Gran Turismo (2023).

Joshamee Gibbs

Joshamee Gibbs, also Mr. Gibbs, is the fictional former Royal Navy sailor turned superstitious pirate first mate of Jack Sparrow in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean films, portrayed by Kevin McNally in all five movies and voiced by him in Kingdom Hearts III and Sea of Thieves.

Joshi-Abhyankar serial murders

Joshi-Abhyankar serial murders: ten 1976-77 Pune killings by students Rajendra Jakkal, Dilip Sutar, Shantaram Jagtap, and Munawar Shah, including the Abhyankar family massacre; death sentence 1978, hanged at Yerawada in 1983.

Joshisa Trader

Joshisa "JoJo" Trader, American college football wide receiver from Hollywood, Florida; Miami Hurricanes 2024-25, five-star ESPN recruit, transferred to NC State Wolfpack in January 2026.

Joshiy (ജോഷി)

Joshiy (ജോഷി), born Joshy Matthew in 1952 in Varkala, Kerala, is an Indian film director of more than 80 Malayalam films, including the blockbuster New Delhi (1987).

Joshua (יְהוֹשֻׁעַ)

Joshua (Hebrew: יְהוֹשֻׁעַ, Yehoshua) is Moses' successor in the Hebrew Bible, who leads the Israelites across the Jordan into Canaan and is the central figure of the Book of Joshua.

Joshua (홍지수) (American singer)

Joshua (조슈아, Hong Jisoo, 홍지수), born 1995 in Los Angeles, is a Korean-American singer and sub-vocalist of SEVENTEEN's vocal team, debuting 2015 with 17 CARAT; also of the duo JEONGHAN X JOSHUA (DREAMSCAPE, 2026).

Joshua A Chu-Tan

Joshua A Chu-Tan is an Australian vision scientist at the Australian National University in Canberra who studies age-related macular degeneration, developing microRNA-based therapeutics for the retina.

Joshua A. Boyce

Joshua A. Boyce is an American allergist-immunologist, chief of allergy and clinical immunology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard professor who chaired NIH food allergy guidelines.

Joshua A. Breslau

Joshua A. Breslau, also known as Joshua Adam Breslau, is an American computational plasma physicist at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory known for the M3D simulation codes.

Joshua A. Gordon

Joshua A. Gordon is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist who directed the National Institute of Mental Health from 2016 to 2024, then became chair of psychiatry at Columbia University.

Joshua A. Salomon

Joshua A. Salomon is a health policy researcher and Professor of Health Policy at Stanford School of Medicine, directing the Prevention Policy Modeling Lab for infectious disease modeling.

Joshua A. Tucker

Joshua A. Tucker is an American political scientist at New York University who studies social media, AI, and politics, and co-directs its Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics.

Joshua Abe

Joshua Abe (Joshua Oluwatobi Abe), born 2010 in Warrington, is an English left-footed right winger in Liverpool FC's academy (U18, number 40) and an England U16 international; not the Japanese goalkeeper of the same name.

Joshua Aizenman

Joshua Aizenman is an American-based economist holding the Dockson Chair at the University of Southern California, known for research on international finance and foreign-exchange reserves.

Joshua Ajala

Joshua Ajala (born 2006) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for EFL Championship club West Ham United, whom he joined from Chelsea in 2023.

Joshua Akey

Joshua Akey is an American population and evolutionary geneticist at Princeton University whose IBDmix method found Neanderthal ancestry in African populations and showed human-Neanderthal gene flow was recurrent.

Joshua Alwood

Joshua S. Alwood is an American space biologist at NASA's Ames Research Center who studies bone loss from microgravity and radiation and develops countermeasures for astronauts.