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Joel Gelernter

Joel Gelernter is an American psychiatrist and human geneticist at Yale University School of Medicine, known for large multi-ancestry genome-wide studies of problematic alcohol use and cannabis use disorder.

Joel Glazer

Joel Glazer, American sports executive; Owner/Co-Chairman of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Executive Co-Chairman of Manchester United plc; son of Malcolm Glazer, key figure in the 2005 leveraged United takeover and the 2021 European Super League plan.

Joel Gonzalez

Joel Gonzalez (Joel González Bonilla), Spanish taekwondo athlete born 1989 in Figueras; Olympic flyweight gold at London 2012 and featherweight bronze at Rio 2016; two-time world and European champion; retired 2021.

Joel Gordon (American football)

Joel Gordon is an American football coach and former Shepherd University quarterback; offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach under Alex Golesh at USF (2022-2025) and Auburn (from December 2025), previously Iowa State passing game coordinator who mentored Brock Purdy.

Joel Gottesfeld

Joel M. Gottesfeld is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, known for chromatin research and HDAC inhibitors for Friedreich's ataxia.

Joel Greenblatt

Joel Greenblatt is an American value investor who founded Gotham Capital in 1985, compounding at 50% yearly through 1994, and wrote The Little Book that Beats the Market.

Joel Greenshields

Joel Greenshields (born 1988, Edson, Alberta) is a Canadian Olympic swimmer, 100 m freestyle specialist; 23rd at Beijing 2008, 2009 short-course 4x200 m freestyle relay world record holder, 2008 NCAA champion with Arizona.

Joel Gretsch

Joel Gretsch (Joel James Gretsch), American actor born 1963 in St. Cloud, Minnesota; lead roles as Tom Baldwin in The 4400 and Father Jack Landry in V, plus The Legend of Bagger Vance and Minority Report; married to Melanie Shatner.

Joel Grey

Joel Grey (born Joel David Katz, 1932) is an American actor, singer, dancer, photographer, and director, famous as the Emcee in Cabaret, winning the 1967 Tony and 1972 Oscar, plus Golden Globe and BAFTA, for the same role.

Joel Griffitts

Joel Griffitts is an American microbiologist at Brigham Young University who studies bacterial genes that decide whether a strain benefits plants or acts like a pathogen.

Joel H. Collier

Joel H. Collier is a biomaterials scientist and Theodore Kennedy Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University, known for self-assembling peptide nanofiber vaccine platforms such as Q11.

Joel H. Slomsky

Joel H. Slomsky is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2008.

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.