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Joshua Angrist
Joshua D. Angrist, born 1960 in Columbus, Ohio, is an American and Israeli economist at MIT who won a quarter of the 2021 Nobel economics prize for causal-analysis methods.
Joshua B. Plotkin
Joshua B. Plotkin is a population and evolutionary biologist who holds the Annenberg Professorship at the University of Pennsylvania, using mathematics to study evolution, cooperation, and codon usage.
Joshua Baraka
Joshua Baraka (born 2001) is a Ugandan singer, songwriter, and producer from Kampala, also called the Nana hitmaker. Known for Afrobeats-R&B fusion with Luganda lyrics, EPs Baby Steps and Recess, and the 2025 debut album Juvie.
Joshua Bassett
Joshua Bassett (Joshua Taylor Bassett), American actor and singer-songwriter born 2000 in Oceanside, California; starred as Ricky Bowen in Disney+'s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, signed to Warner Records, won a 2023 Children's and Family Emmy, and released the album The Golden Years.
Joshua Becker
Joshua Becker is a German fintech co-founder and chief operating officer of Augustus (formerly Ivy), a Berlin payments company he co-founded in 2022 with Ferdinand Dabitz, Simon Wimmer, and Peter Lieck.
Joshua Bell
Joshua Bell (born 1967, Bloomington, Indiana) is an American violinist and conductor, Music Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields since 2011, Grammy winner for Maw's Violin Concerto, Red Violin soloist, and player of the 1713 Huberman Stradivarius.
Joshua ben Levi (יהושע בן לוי)
Joshua ben Levi (Yehoshua ben Levi) was a Palestinian amora of the early third century who headed the school of Lydda and was famed as a master of aggadah.
Joshua ben Perahiah
Joshua ben Perahiah (יהושע בן פרחיה) was a Jewish sage of the late second century BCE, nasi of the Sanhedrin and one of the five pairs of scholars.
Joshua Block
Joshua Block, aka WorldOfTShirts, is an American TikTok personality born 2001 in Virginia Beach, known for New York City vlogs, nightly Parti livestreams, merchandise, walking tours, and repeated public incidents.
Joshua Braff
Joshua Braff (born 1967) is an American novelist, brother of actor Zach Braff, author of The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green (2004), Peep Show (2010), and the self-published The Daddy Diaries (2015).
Joshua Brickman
Joshua Brickman is a developmental and stem cell biologist at the University of Copenhagen who studies how transcription factors control cell fate in early embryos.
Joshua Buatsi
Joshua Buatsi, British-Ghanaian light-heavyweight boxer, Rio 2016 Olympic bronze medalist, former British champion, record 20-1 with 13 KOs, known for the 2024 win over Dan Azeez.
Joshua C. Bienfang
Joshua C. Bienfang is an American physicist at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, working on quantum communications and single-photon detection, who received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2006.
Joshua C. Denny
Joshua C. Denny is an American physician and biomedical informatics researcher known for developing PheWAS and serving as CEO of the NIH's All of Us Research Program since 2020.
Joshua Caleb Sutter
Joshua Caleb Sutter, also known as Wulfran Hall, is an American neo-Nazi and Satanist who served as a paid FBI informant from 2003 to 2021.
Joshua Chamberlain
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828–1914), Bowdoin professor, Union brevet major general commanding the 20th Maine at Little Round Top, Medal of Honor recipient, four-term governor of Maine, and Bowdoin president.
Joshua Cheptegei
Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei, Ugandan distance runner born 1996 in Kapchorwa; 5000m (12:35.36) and 10,000m (26:11.00) world record holder, two-time Olympic champion, three-time world 10,000m champion, now racing roads and marathon.
Joshua Chuquimia Crampton
Joshua Chuquimia Crampton, also JCC (born 1983, San Diego), Aymara (Great Pakajaqi Nation) experimental guitarist of Los Thuthanaka with sibling Chuquimamani-Condori; solo albums The Heart's Wash (2020) through Anata (2026), loud unmastered ceremonial guitar music.
Joshua Cohen (liquid-biopsy scientist)
Joshua Cohen is an American liquid-biopsy scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Haystack Oncology in 2021, a Baltimore cancer-diagnostics company acquired by Quest Diagnostics in 2023.
Joshua Coon
Joshua J. Coon is an American chemist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for co-inventing electron transfer dissociation, a mass spectrometry method for protein sequencing, in 2004.
Joshua D. Caldwell
Joshua D. Caldwell, also known as Joshua Caldwell, is an American materials scientist and professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University known for phonon polariton research.
Joshua D. Milner
Joshua D. Milner is an American allergist-immunologist known for discovering genetic diseases that cause allergy, including PLAID and PGM3 deficiency, and has led allergy and immunology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center since 2019.
Joshua D. Wolson
Joshua D. Wolson, born Joshua David Wolson in 1974, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, appointed by President Trump in 2019.
Joshua Da Silva
Joshua Da Silva, born 1998 in Port of Spain, is a West Indies right-handed wicketkeeper-batter. Test debut 2020 vs New Zealand; 34 Tests, 1,258 runs; dropped January 2025, recalled 2026 after a maiden double century.
Joshua De Souza
Joshua Peter De Souza is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who serves as Deputy Speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly and represents the Mapusa constituency.
Joshua Dobbs
Joshua Dobbs, NFL quarterback, Tennessee Volunteers aerospace engineering graduate, drafted 135th overall by Pittsburgh in 2017; journeyman backup who started for Arizona and Minnesota in 2023 after Kirk Cousins' injury, with NASA externship and alopecia advocacy.
Joshua Dunlap
Joshua Dale Dunlap (born 1983) is a U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit judge, nominated by Trump in 2025, confirmed 52-46 to the Kayatta seat; formerly a Pierce Atwood partner in Portland, Maine.
Joshua E. Cinner
Joshua E. Cinner is an environmental social scientist and human geographer who studies coral reefs, and an ARC Laureate Fellow at the University of Sydney since 2023.
Joshua E. Goldberger
Joshua E. Goldberger is the Charles H. Kimberly Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Ohio State, a leader in two-dimensional materials known for germanane and goniopolar materials.
Joshua Easterly
Joshua Easterly is an American financier who co-founded the San Francisco investment firm Sixth Street in 2009, serving as co-president and co-chief investment officer until his 2026 retirement.