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Joshua N. Goldstein

Joshua N. Goldstein is an American emergency physician and clinical researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for trials in stroke, seizures, and anticoagulation reversal.

Joshua N. Haldeman

Joshua Norman Haldeman (1902–1974), chiropractor, aviator, and Canadian political activist; led Technocracy Inc. of Canada, chaired Social Credit, drafted Saskatchewan's 1943 Chiropractic Act, moved to Pretoria in 1950; grandfather of Elon Musk.

Joshua Nelson (private equity investor)

Joshua Nelson is a private equity investor and Managing Director who heads the healthcare vertical at THL Partners, a Boston-based investment firm, and serves on its Management, Operating, and Investment Committees.

Joshua Nkomo

Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo (1917–1999), 'Father Zimbabwe', founder and leader of ZAPU, detained a decade by Ian Smith, Patriotic Front co-leader, and Zimbabwe's vice-president after the 1987 Unity Accord with Mugabe.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer is an American documentary filmmaker based in Copenhagen, known for The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, which document the 1965–66 Indonesian mass killings.

Joshua P. Johansen

Joshua P. Johansen, also published as Joshua Johansen, is a neuroscientist who leads a learning and memory laboratory at Japan's RIKEN Center for Brain Science.

Joshua P. Kolar

Joshua P. Kolar is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 2024, appointed by President Biden.

Joshua Pascoe

Joshua Pascoe (Joshua Bill Pascoe, born 1995, Sutton, Surrey) is an English actor who played Ben Mitchell in EastEnders from December 2010 to August 2012, replacing Charlie Jones; later credits include Not Going Out and Just Charlie.

Joshua Primo

Joshua Primo, Canadian guard born 2002, drafted 12th overall 2021 by San Antonio Spurs, waived 2022 after exposure allegations, suspended four games by NBA in 2023, later played for Clippers.

Joshua R. Sanes

Joshua R. Sanes, also known as Joshua Sanes, is an American neuroscientist, emeritus professor at Harvard, known for work on synapse formation, retinal circuits, and Brainbow.

Joshua Rabinowitz

Joshua D. Rabinowitz is a Princeton chemistry professor and director of the Ludwig Princeton Branch, known for metabolomics, isotope-tracing methods, and cancer metabolism research, including the oncometabolite 2-hydroxyglutarate.

Joshua Redman

Joshua Redman (born 1969, Berkeley, California) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer, son of Dewey Redman, 1991 Thelonious Monk Competition winner, leader of the MoodSwing quartet, Elastic Band, James Farm, and Blue Note albums where are we and Words Fall Short.

Joshua Reynolds

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), leading English portraitist of the 18th century and first President of the Royal Academy from 1768; knighted 1769, principal painter to George III 1784, author of the Discourses on Art.

Joshua Reynolds (politician)

Joshua Reynolds, also known as Joshua Peter Reynolds, is a British Liberal Democrat politician who has been MP for Maidenhead since 2024, when he gained the seat from the Conservatives.

Joshua Robinson

Joshua A. Robinson is an American materials scientist and professor at Pennsylvania State University known for confinement heteroepitaxy, which grows atomically thin metals and nitrides beyond graphene.

Joshua Roll

The Joshua Roll, Vatican Pal. gr. 431, is a tenth-century Byzantine illuminated parchment scroll made in Constantinople, the only surviving illuminated manuscript scroll from the Middle Byzantine period, illustrating the Book of Joshua.

Joshua Rudd

Joshua Monroe Rudd is a United States Army general and Special Forces officer who became NSA Director and Cyber Command commander in March 2026 after a Senate confirmation.

Joshua Rush

Joshua Rush (Joshua Nisenson, born 2001, Houston) is an American actor and activist who played Cyrus Goodman, Disney Channel's first openly gay main character, on Andi Mack, voiced Bunga on The Lion Guard and Waldo on Where's Waldo?, came out as bisexual in 2019, and became a Democratic communications strategist.

Joshua S. Figueroa

Joshua S. Figueroa is an American inorganic and organometallic chemist, professor at UC San Diego, known for stabilizing reactive low-valent metal complexes with bulky isocyanide ligands.

Joshua S. Weinger

Joshua S. Weinger is a biochemist who, in Scott Strobel's Yale laboratory, led the 2004 study showing the tRNA 2'-hydroxyl group is essential to ribosomal catalysis.

Joshua Sasse

Joshua Sasse (Joshua Seymour Sasse), British actor born 1987 in Westminster, London, known for Galavant, No Tomorrow, Monarch, and as Oswald Mosley in Outrageous.

Joshua Selman

Joshua Selman, also known as Joshua Selman Nimmak, is a Nigerian Pentecostal minister who founded Eternity Network International, known as Koinonia Global, in Zaria in 2011.

Joshua Silver

Joshua Silver is a professor of physics at the University of Oxford who invented self-adjusting eyeglasses, fluid-filled lenses wearers dial to their own prescription, distributed in developing countries.

Joshua Simmons

Joshua Bradford Simmons (born 1982, Abingdon, Virginia) is an American lawyer and CIA General Counsel, confirmed 53-47 on January 6, 2026; formerly State Department Principal Deputy Legal Adviser and Wiley Rein partner.

Joshua Starmer

Joshua Starmer is the founder and CEO of StatQuest, a YouTube channel explaining statistics, data science, and machine learning with pictures, toy datasets, and songs.

Joshua T Dudman

Joshua Tate Dudman is an American neuroscientist and Senior Group Leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, studying how basal ganglia and dopamine circuits let animals learn skillful behaviors.

Joshua T. Trachtenberg

Joshua T. Trachtenberg is a neuroscientist and Professor of Neurobiology at UCLA known for long-term in vivo imaging of synaptic plasticity in the adult cortex and work on critical-period plasticity in visual cortex.

Joshua Tenenbaum

Joshua B. Tenenbaum is a professor of computational cognitive science at MIT who applies Bayesian models to human learning and created the Isomap algorithm, winning a MacArthur Fellowship in 2019.

Joshua the High Priest

Joshua the High Priest, also called Jeshua, was the first high priest of the Second Temple, who returned from exile and rebuilt it around 520 BCE.

Joshua Toulmin

Joshua Toulmin (1740–1815) was an English dissenting minister who moved from Calvinism to Unitarian belief, ministered at Taunton for decades, and wrote histories of Protestant dissent.