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Joshua Tree National Park
Joshua Tree National Park, a 795,000-acre southern California park where the Mojave and Colorado Deserts meet, monument in 1936, national park in 1994, named for Yucca brevifolia, with about 870,000 Joshua trees, threatened desert tortoises, and rising heat and drought.
Joshua Tree, California
Joshua Tree, California: unincorporated Mojave Desert CDP in San Bernardino County's Morongo Basin, gateway to Joshua Tree National Park; 6,489 residents (2020), groundwater-dependent, tourism-driven economy.
Joshua Van
Joshua Van, Burmese UFC flyweight champion, won the title from Alexandre Pantoja at UFC 323 (Dec 2025) and defended it against Tatsuro Taira (UFC 328) and Pantoja again (UFC 331, 2026).
Joshua Vaughan
Joshua Vaughan (born 2006, Birmingham) is an English actor, also known Joshua Vaughn, who debuted as Billy in West End's School of Rock, played Young Macduff in the RSC's Macbeth, and joined EastEnders in 2026 as series regular Josh Goodwin.
Joshua Waitzkin
Joshua Waitzkin (born 1976), American chess international master and subject of Searching for Bobby Fischer; eight-time national champion, later Tai Chi push hands world champion and author of The Art of Learning.
Joshua Waters (voice actor)
Joshua A. Waters (born 2001) is an American nonbinary voice actor from Ohio, known for Phainon in Honkai: Star Rail, Qifrey in Witch Hat Atelier, Miyano in Sasaki and Miyano, and Inu-Oh; CESD-represented, formerly a nurse.
Joshua Weissman
Joshua Weissman, American chef and YouTube creator behind the "But Better" series; author of NYT bestsellers An Unapologetic Cookbook (2021) and Texture Over Taste (2023); trained at Uchiko, Austin.
Joshua Wheeler
Joshua Lloyd Wheeler (November 1975 – October 22, 2015), Cherokee Nation citizen from Roland, Oklahoma, was a U.S. Army Delta Force master sergeant and the first American killed in action against ISIS during Operation Inherent Resolve, in the Hawija hostage-rescue raid that freed about 70 hostages.
Joshua Williamson
Joshua Williamson (born 1981, Portland, Oregon) is an American comic book writer of The Flash, Superman, Dark Crisis, Nailbiter, Birthright, and Skybound's G.I. Joe, distinct from the evangelist and other namesakes.
Joshua Winn
Joshua Winn is an astrophysicist and Professor of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton who studies exoplanetary systems, known for measuring spin-orbit alignment and authoring The Little Book of Exoplanets (2023).
Joshua Wong
Joshua Wong (黃之鋒) is a Hong Kong democracy activist, Scholarism and Demosistō founder, Umbrella Movement leader, jailed under the National Security Law, with a 2026 collusion guilty plea pending sentence.
Joshua Yarrow
Joshua F. Yarrow is an American rehabilitation scientist studying sex-steroid hormones, bone, and muscle after spinal cord injury; he directs the Eastern Colorado GRECC and won a 2014 PECASE award.
Joshua Zimmerberg
Joshua Zimmerberg is a membrane biophysicist and physician-scientist who serves as Chief of the Section on Integrative Biophysics at NIH, known for discovering the fusion pore and winning the 2021 Katz Award.
Joshua Zirkzee
Joshua Zirkzee (Joshua Orobosa Zirkzee), Dutch forward born 2001 in Schiedam; ex-Bayern, Anderlecht and Bologna striker, Serie A Team of the Year 2023-24, signed by Manchester United in 2024 for €42.5m and a Netherlands international.
Joshy
Joshy is a 2016 American dark comedy-drama directed and written by Jeff Baena, starring Thomas Middleditch, Adam Pally, Nick Kroll, and Jenny Slate. After his fiancée's suicide, Josh proceeds with his bachelor party in Ojai, California; the dialogue was improvised from a 20-page outline over a 15-day shoot, and the film premiered at Sundance 2016.
Josi Cuen
Josi Cuen (José Isidro Beltrán Cuen) is a Mexican Regional Mexican singer from Culiacán, Sinaloa, a lead vocalist of La Arrolladora Banda El Limón from 2007 to 2021.
Josia Thugwane
Josia (Josiah) Thugwane, born 1971 in Bethal, South Africa, is a retired marathon runner who won gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics in 2:12:36, the closest Olympic marathon finish to that date, and set a personal best of 2:07:28 at Fukuoka 1997.
Josiah (al-Hasan) b. Zakkai (anti-exilarch)
Josiah (al-Ḥasan) b. Zakkai was a tenth-century rival claimant to the Babylonian Jewish exilarchate. The brother of exilarch David b. Zakkai, he was installed in 930 at Saadia Gaon's instigation.
Josiah (יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ)
Josiah, also known as Yoshiyahu (יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ), was king of Judah from 640 to 609 BCE, crowned at age eight and remembered for centralizing worship at the Jerusalem Temple.
Josiah Bartlett
Josiah Bartlett (1729–1795), New Hampshire physician and statesman of Kingston, first to vote for independence and second signer of the Declaration, signer of the Articles of Confederation, and state governor 1790–1794.
Josiah Cross
Josiah Cross (Josiah Cross-Wiggins), American actor from Cleveland, Ohio; drama-trained in London; film debut as TD in King Richard (2021), played Terry at 17 in A Thousand and One (2023), Lt. Richard D. Macon in Masters of the Air and Reggie Robinson in Lady in the Lake (2024).
Josiah D. Rich
Josiah D. Rich is an American infectious disease and addiction medicine physician-researcher at Brown University, known for building Rhode Island's statewide prison medication-assisted treatment program.
Josiah Dykstra
Josiah Dykstra is an American cybersecurity and digital forensics researcher who spent over a decade at the NSA and received a Presidential Early Career Award.
Josiah Harlan
Josiah Harlan (1799-1871), Pennsylvania Quaker adventurer, possibly the first American in Afghanistan; served Shah Shuja, Ranjit Singh, and Dost Mohammad, became Prince of Ghor in 1838, and inspired Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King."
Josiah Hester
Josiah Hester is a Native Hawaiian computer scientist and associate professor at Georgia Tech known for battery-free computing, intermittent systems, and wearable health sensing devices.
Josiah Mwangi Kariuki
Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, known in Kenya as JM, was a populist MP for Nyandarua North and critic of President Jomo Kenyatta, assassinated in March 1975.
Josiah P. Cooke
Josiah P. Cooke was an American chemist and mineralogist who held Harvard's Erving Professorship from 1850 until 1894, known for atomic-weight measurements and pioneering laboratory teaching.
Josiah Queen
Josiah Queen (born 2003, Clearwater, Florida) is an American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter behind "The Prodigal" and "Dusty Bibles," with No. 1 Billboard Top Christian Albums and a Hot 100 hit.
Josiah Ritchie
Josiah Ritchie (1870–1955), full name Major Josiah George Ritchie, was a British tennis player who won gold, silver, and bronze at the 1908 London Olympics, the last British singles gold medalist until Murray in 2012.
Josiah Royce
Josiah Royce (1855–1916) was an American philosopher, the leading American proponent of absolute idealism, who taught at Harvard from 1882 and developed an ethics centered on loyalty.