Joshua (name)
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Joshua is a Biblical given name
derived from the Hebrew Yehoshua . Although it is often etymologized as related to the root for "salvation," e.g. as "Jehovah
rescues" or "Jehovah is salvation"., the form of the word does not support this etymology. It is more likely Yeho-Shua, "YHWH's gift," with the same second element as Malki-Shua (1 Sam. 14:49), Bat-Shua (1 Chron. 3) and Avishua (1 Chron. 5:31).
As a result of the origin of the name, a majority of people before the 17th century who have this name are Jewish. A variant, truncated form of the name, Josh, gained popularity in the United States in the 1970s.
from 2003 to 2007 shows "Joshua" among the top-five given names for newborn males. In Scotland
, the popularity of "Joshua" has been substantially lower than in the rest of the United Kingdom, appearing at rank 35 in 2000 and rising to rank 22 in 2006.
BC 13th century people
BC 6th century people
BC 2nd century people
1st century people
3rd century people
6th century people
19th century people
20th century people
16th century people
17th century people
18th century people
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20th century people
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
derived from the Hebrew Yehoshua . Although it is often etymologized as related to the root for "salvation," e.g. as "Jehovah
Tetragrammaton
The term Tetragrammaton refers to the name of the God of Israel YHWH used in the Hebrew Bible.-Hebrew Bible:...
rescues" or "Jehovah is salvation"., the form of the word does not support this etymology. It is more likely Yeho-Shua, "YHWH's gift," with the same second element as Malki-Shua (1 Sam. 14:49), Bat-Shua (1 Chron. 3) and Avishua (1 Chron. 5:31).
As a result of the origin of the name, a majority of people before the 17th century who have this name are Jewish. A variant, truncated form of the name, Josh, gained popularity in the United States in the 1970s.
Joshua
"Joshua" appeared among the top-ten male given names for newborns from 1994–2008. Information from Office for National StatisticsOffice for National Statistics
The Office for National Statistics is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the Parliament of the United Kingdom.- Overview :...
from 2003 to 2007 shows "Joshua" among the top-five given names for newborn males. In Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, the popularity of "Joshua" has been substantially lower than in the rest of the United Kingdom, appearing at rank 35 in 2000 and rising to rank 22 in 2006.
Instances of use
Following is a short annotated list of persons, real and fictional, sharing "Joshua" or "Josh" or very rarely "Yehoshua" as a given name, representative of the breadth in geography and time of the names' use. Most Joshua's have an uncanny knack od being simultaneously irritating, hyperactive and buck toothed. It is unknown whether this is genetic or because the baby was called Joshua. However, if a Joshua does not portray these characteristics, it is recessive and will pass on to the next generation.Yehoshua
Ancient people whose names were certainly rendered in Hebrew are placed here regardless of the actual name currently attributed to themBC 13th century people
- Joshua son of Nun
BC 6th century people
- Joshua the High PriestJoshua the High PriestJoshua the High Priest was, according to the Bible the first person chosen to be the High Priest for the reconstruction of the Jewish Temple after the return of the Jews from the Babylonian Captivity The name is also spelled 'Jeshua' in some English versions , and, as with the earlier Joshua, is...
BC 2nd century people
- Joshua ben PerachyahJoshua ben PerachyahRabbi Joshua ben Perahiah or Joshua ben Perachya was Nasi of the Sanhedrin in the latter half of the 2nd century BC.-With Nittai of Arbela, second of five pairs of scholars:...
(given name = Yehoshua)
1st century people
- Joshua ben HananiahJoshua ben HananiahJoshua ben Hananiah was a leading tanna of the first half-century following the destruction of the Temple. He was of Levitical descent , and served in the sanctuary as a member of the class of singers . His mother intended him for a life of study, and, as an older contemporary, Dosa b. Harkinas,...
(given name = Yehoshua) (flourished 70 – c.100 CE)
3rd century people
- Israeli: Joshua ben LeviJoshua ben LeviJoshua ben Levi or Yehoshua ben Levi was an amora who lived in the land of Israel of the first half of the third century. He headed the school of Lydda in the southern Land of Israel. He was an elder contemporary of Johanan bar Nappaha and Resh Lakish, who presided over the school in Tiberias...
(flourished c.200 – c.250 AD); birth in the Land of IsraelLand of IsraelThe Land of Israel is the Biblical name for the territory roughly corresponding to the area encompassed by the Southern Levant, also known as Canaan and Palestine, Promised Land and Holy Land. The belief that the area is a God-given homeland of the Jewish people is based on the narrative of the...
, which roughly maps to modern Israel
6th century people
- Joshua the StyliteJoshua the StyliteJoshua the Stylite is the attributed author of a chronicle which narrates the history of the war between the Later Roman Empire and Persians in 502 - 506, and which is one of the earliest and best historical documents preserved in Syriac.The work owes its preservation to having been incorporated...
19th century people
- Lithuanian: Yehoshua Leib DiskinYehoshua Leib DiskinYehoshua Yehuda Leib Diskin , also known as the Maharil Diskin, was a leading rabbi, Talmudist and Biblical commentator. He served as a rabbi in Łomża, Mezritch, Kovno, Shklov, Brisk and finally Jerusalem, after moving to Eretz Yisrael in 1878....
(1818–1898) - Ukrainian: Yehoshua RokeachYehoshua RokeachYehoshua Rokeach was the second rebbe of the Belz Hasidic dynasty. He combined Torah scholarship with practical common sense to guide thousands of Hasidim and to fight the Haskalah movement that was making inroads in Jewish communities in Poland during the nineteenth century...
(1825–1894); birth location was under the rule of the Austrian Empire at the time
20th century people
- Egyptian-born Israeli: Yehoshua RozinYehoshua Rozin-Early life and career:Rozin was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He moved to Israel at the age of six.Rozin played for Maccabi Tel Aviv in basketball in the 1930s and 1940s, beginning at the age of 14....
(1918-2002), Israeli basketball coach - Israeli: A. B. YehoshuaA. B. YehoshuaAbraham B. Yehoshua is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. His pen name is A. B. Yehoshua.-Biography:...
(born 1936), novelist, essayist, and playwright - Israeli: Yehoshua SobolYehoshua SobolJoshua Sobol, also known as Yehoshua Sobol , is an Israeli playwright, writer, and director at theatres in Israel and abroad.He is married to Edna, set and costume designer...
(born 1939) - Israeli: Yehoshua ZettlerYehoshua ZettlerYehoshua Zettler was an Israeli who served as the Jerusalem commander of Jewish paramilitary group Lehi, often also called as the Stern gang...
(1917–2009)
Joshua
14th century people- Spain: Joshua LorkiJoshua LorkiJoshua ben Joseph ibn Vives al-Lorqui was a Spanish-Jewish physician who lived at Alcañiz. In 1408, at the command of the rich and influential Benveniste ben Solomon ben Labi, he wrote a work in Arabic on the value and effects of various foodstuffs and of simple and composite medicaments...
(born before 1400; flourished c.1400)
16th century people
- English: Joshua SylvesterJoshua SylvesterJoshua Sylvester was an English poet.-Biography:Sylvester was the son of a Kentish clothier. In his tenth year he was sent to school at King Edward VI School, Southampton, where he gained a knowledge of French...
(1563–1618) - French: Joshua CaslariJoshua CaslariJoshua Caslari was a Jewish liturgical poet who lived at Avignon about 1540. He wrote four elegies which are inserted in the manuscript Machzor of Avignon; his signature is found at the end of the last...
(flourished 1540–1560) - Italian: Joshua dei CantoriJoshua dei CantoriJoshua dei Cantori was a converted Italian Jew who attacked the Talmud at Cremona in 1559. According to Moritz Steinschneider, he belonged to the family Cantarini...
(flourished 1559) - Polish: Joshua FalkJoshua Falk----Joshua ben Alexander HaCohen Falk was a Polish Halakhist and Talmudist, best known as the author of the Beit Yisrael commentary on the Arba'ah Turim as well as Sefer Me'irat Enayim on Shulkhan Arukh...
(1555–1614) - Spanish: Joshua Boaz ben Simon BaruchJoshua Boaz ben Simon BaruchJoshua Boaz ben Simon Baruch , also known as the Shiltei Giborim after a work he authored, was a prominent Talmudist who lived at Sabbioneta, and later at Savigliano...
(died 1557) - Spanish: Gerónimo de Santa FeGerónimo de Santa FeJerónimo de Santa Fe was a Spanish physician and religious writer who after conversion to Catholicism, wrote in Latin as Hieronymus de Sancta Fide ....
(flourished 1550–1620); born "Joshua ha-Lorki", his name was changed upon conversion from Judaism to Christianity to "Ibn Vives Lorki"
17th century people
- English: Joshua BarnesJoshua BarnesJoshua Barnes , was an English scholar.He was born in London, the son of Edward Barnes, a merchant taylor.Educated at Christ's Hospital and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he was in 1695 chosen Regius Professor of Greek, a language which he wrote and spoke with the utmost facility.One of his first...
(1654–1712) - Irish: Joshua BoyleJoshua BoyleJoshua Boyle was a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons, initially elected to represent the borough of Mallow in 1641, and was sworn in as recorder of Parliament on March 1 of the same year....
(flourished 1640–1660) - Lithuanian: Joshua Heschel ZorefJoshua Heschel ZorefJoshua Heschel Zoref was a 17th-century ascetic, and an important personality in the Lithuanian Sabbatean movement. During the messianic fervor of 1666, he claimed to experience visions similar to those of Ezekiel...
(born 1633)
18th century people
- American: Joshua Appleby (1770–1846)
- Belarussian: Joshua ZeitlinJoshua ZeitlinJoshua Zeitlin, , , was a Russian rabbinical scholar and philanthropist. He was a pupil of the Talmudist Rabbi Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg who was the author of Sha'agat Aryeh; and, being an expert in political economy, he stood in close relations with Prince Potemkin, the favorite of Catherine II...
(1742–1822); born in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during its decline, in a region that maps to modern Belarus - English: Joshua ReynoldsJoshua ReynoldsSir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA was an influential 18th-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was one of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy...
(1723–1792) - Irish: Joshua Allen, 5th Viscount AllenJoshua Allen, 5th Viscount AllenCaptain Joshua Allen, 5th Viscount Allen was an Irish peer.-Life:The son of Hon. Richard A. Allen, and grandson of John Allen, 1st Viscount Allen, he succeeded to the title of 5th Viscount Allen, County Kildare, and its subsidiary titles, on 10 November 1753, on the death of his brother the 4th...
(1728–1816)
19th century people
- American: Joshua ChamberlainJoshua ChamberlainJoshua Lawrence Chamberlain , born as Lawrence Joshua Chamberlain, was an American college professor from the State of Maine, who volunteered during the American Civil War to join the Union Army...
(1828–1914) - American: Joshua A. LowellJoshua A. LowellJoshua Adams Lowell was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Thomaston on March 20, 1801. He attended the common schools where he also taught. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in East Machias. He was elected a member of the Maine House of...
(1801–1874) - American: Joshua SlocumJoshua SlocumJoshua Slocum was the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Canadian born, naturalised American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer. In 1900 he told the story of this in Sailing Alone Around the World...
(1844–1909) - Canadian: Joshua Gwillen DoanJoshua Gwillen DoanJoshua Gwillen Doan was a farmer and tanner who participated in the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837.He was born in the Sugar Loaf area of the Niagara District in 1811 to a family of Quakers who had left Pennsylvania before the start of the War of 1812. He began farming and then became a tanner when...
(1811–1839) - English: Joshua A. NortonJoshua A. NortonJoshua Abraham Norton , the self-proclaimed Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, was a celebrated citizen of San Francisco, California, who in 1859 proclaimed himself "Emperor of these United States" and subsequently "Protector of Mexico".Born in England, Norton spent most of his early life in South...
(c.1814–1880; born in England, immigrated to United States via South Africa) - Irish: Joshua MillnerJoshua MillnerJoshua Kearney Millner , also referred to as Jerry Millner, was a British shooter who represented Great Britain and Ireland at the...
(1849–1931) - Lithuanian: Joshua LewinsohnJoshua LewinsohnJoshua Lewinsohn was a Russian teacher and writer. He was born in 1833 at Vyeshiuti, in the Kovno region. He received his Talmudical education at Zhagory, in the house of his uncle Simon Hurvitz, and graduated in 1865 from the Gymnasium of Mitau, remaining there until 1874, when he was appointed...
(born 1833) - Welsh: Joshua HughesJoshua HughesJoshua Hughes was Bishop of St Asaph, an Anglican diocese in Wales, United Kingdom.Hughes was educated at Cardigan and Ystradmeurig grammar schools and at St David's College, Lampeter , where he was placed in the first class in the examinations every year and gained prizes for Latin and Welsh essays...
(1807–1889)
20th century people
- American: Josh CulbreathJosh CulbreathJoshua Culbreath was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 400 meter hurdles — the national outdoor champion from 1953 to 1955; three-time winner of the event in the Penn Relays in the same years, and Olympic bronze medal winner in 1956, while he was serving in the U.S...
(born "Joshua" 1932) - American: Joshua FishmanJoshua FishmanJoshua Aaron Fishman, is an American linguist who specializes in the sociology of language, language planning, bilingual education, and language and ethnicity.-Life:...
(born 1926) - American: Josh GibsonJosh GibsonJoshua Gibson was an American catcher in baseball's Negro leagues. He played for the Homestead Grays from 1930 to 1931, moved to the Pittsburgh Crawfords from 1932 to 1936, and returned to the Grays from 1937 to 1939 and 1942 to 1946...
(1911–1947) - American: Josh GrobanJosh GrobanJoshua Winslow "Josh" Groban is an American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and record producer. His four solo albums have been certified at least multi-platinum, and in 2007, he was charted as the number-one best selling artist in the United States with over 21 million records in that country...
(born "Joshua" 1981) - American: Josh Homme (born "Joshua" 1973)
- American: Josh HowardJosh HowardJoshua Jay Howard is an American professional basketball player who most recently played for the NBA's Washington Wizards. At and , he plays as a small forward.-High school:...
(born "Joshua" 1980) - American: Josh Andrew KoenigJosh Andrew KoenigJoshua Andrew Koenig also known as Josh Andrew Koenig or Andrew Koenig, was an American character actor, film director, editor, writer, and human rights activist...
(born "Joshua" 1968-2010) - Australian: Joshua EagleJoshua EagleJoshua Eagle is a former professional male tennis player from Australia. He was born in Toowoomba, Queensland and now lives in Noosa, Queensland. He stands at 1.82 m and weighs 90 kg, and is classified as a doubles specialist. Eagle has won five ATP doubles titles.Eagles is married to...
(born 1973) - Australian: Joshua KennedyJoshua KennedyJoshua Blake Kennedy is an Australian professional football player who plays as a striker for the Australia national association football team and Nagoya Grampus.- Club career :...
(born 1982) - Canadian: Joshua BartholomewJoshua BartholomewJoshua Bartholomew is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer.Bartholomew was born in Pembroke, Ontario, and raised on military bases throughout Canada including CFB Petawawa, CFB Valcartier and CFB Borden...
(born 1984) - Canadian: Joshua Woods (born 1990)
- Dutch: Joshua LivestroJoshua LivestroJoshua Livestro is a Dutch columnist and political person. He was a former assistant to EU commissioner Frits Bolkestein....
(born 1970) - English: Josh CooperJosh Cooper (cryptographer)Joshua Edward Synge Cooper CB, CMG was an English cryptographer.He joined the Government Code and Cipher School as a Junior Assistant in October 1925 to specialise in Russian codes and ciphers. He was down from King’s College London with a First in Russian and was teaching at a preparatory...
(born "Joshua" 1901–1981) - Filipino: Joshua DionisioJoshua DionisioRalph Joshua Dela Cruz Dionisio, better known as Joshua Dionisio, is a Filipino child actor working in television.Born on December 14, 1994 in Quezon City, he has a younger brother, Jacob, his co-star on Super Inggo. Joshua Dionisio began his career as a commercial model at the age of 8. He was...
(born 1994) - Ghanaian: Joshua OwusuJoshua OwusuJoshua Owusu is a retired Olympic track and field athlete from Ghana. He specialised in the triple jump and the long jump events during his career....
(born 1948) - Ghanaian: Joshua ClotteyJoshua ClotteyJoshua Clottey is a Ghanaian professional boxer. Born in Accra, Ghana, Clottey now lives in the Bronx, New York. He is the former IBF welterweight champion. He's also the brother of veteran boxers Judas Clottey and Emmanuel Clottey....
(born 1977) - Israeli: Joshua SimonJoshua SimonJoshua Simon is an art curator, writer and filmmaker born in Tel Aviv, Israel.Joshua Simon is Co-Editor of several publications: Maayan dedicated for poetry and ideas, Maarvon dedicated for film, and the New & Bad dedicated for art....
(living) - Kenyan: Joshua ChelangaJoshua ChelangaJoshua Chelanga is a Kenyan long-distance runner, who won the 2007 edition of the Rotterdam Marathon on April 15, clocking 2:08:21....
(born 1973) - Liberian: Joshua BlahyiJoshua BlahyiJoshua Milton Blahyi , better known by his nom de guerre General Butt Naked, is a former leader for the Liberian warlord Roosevelt Johnson in the First Liberian Civil War known for his fierce, violent and eccentric measures in the first half of the 1990s...
(living) - Malaysian: Joshua FernandezJoshua FernandezJoshua Fernandez , is a Malaysian film director. He first started working in the film industry in December 1995 and made his directorial debut in April 2000. Directing TV Commercials, specializing in Visual Effects type scripts. A co-founders of BOO Films SDN BHD , Joshua served as it's Executive...
(born 1974) - Mexican: Joshua Ilika BrennerJoshua Ilika BrennerJoshua Brenner Ilika is a Mexican swimmer, who began swimming at the age of three. He has participated in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics.-External links:...
(born 1976) - Nigerian: Joshua DariyeJoshua DariyeJoshua Chibi Dariye assumed office as the Governor of Plateau State, Nigeria on May 29, 1999 on the platform of the People's Democratic Party...
(born 1957) - Northern Irish: Joshua CardwellJoshua CardwellJoshua Cardwell was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Belfast and educated locally, Cardwell worked as the manager of a coal importing firm. In 1952 he was elected to Belfast City Council for Victoria Ward and later became an Alderman...
(1910–1982) - Polish: Joshua NeusteinJoshua NeusteinJoshua Neustein is a contemporary visual artist living and working in New York and Tel Aviv. He is known primarily for his environmental installations and Post Minimalist torn paper works, as well as his series of large-scale map paintings. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of...
(born 1940) - Romanian: Joshua PerperJoshua PerperDr. Joshua Perper is a forensic pathologist and Chief Medical Examiner in Broward County in the United States who has gained both national and international notice for his work on several high profile autopsies.-Professional:Perper was born in Bacău, Romania and he escaped the Nazis during World...
(born 1932) - Singaporean: Joshua AngJoshua AngJoshua Ang Ser Kian is a Mediacorp artiste from Singapore who starred alongside Shawn Lee in the film I Not Stupid and its sequel I Not Stupid Too.Ang studied at Pasir Ris Secondary School....
(born 1983) - South African: Oupa GqozoOupa GqozoJoshua Oupa Gqozo was the military ruler of the former homeland of Ciskei in South Africa.-Early life:Oupa Gqozo was born in Kroonstad on 10 March 1952, the son of a Christian minister. He was sent away at a young age to stay with a relative living in Witgatboom in Northern Transvaal . There he...
(born "Joshua Oupa Gqozo" 1952)
Josh
20th century people- NIGERIA: JoshUA KC (born 1983) – GOSPEL BAND playerAND COMPTER ANILYS 08068452278
- American: Josh DuhamelJosh DuhamelJoshua David "Josh" Duhamel is an American actor and former fashion model. He first achieved acting success in 1999 as Leo du Pres on ABC's All My Children and later as the chief of security, Danny McCoy, on NBC's Las Vegas...
(born 1972) – actor, model - American: Josh BeckettJosh BeckettJoshua Patrick Beckett is an American professional baseball pitcher with the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. During his career in the playoffs, he won the 2003 World Series MVP Award with the Florida Marlins, and received the 2007 ALCS MVP award with the Red Sox.-Florida Marlins :A...
(born 1980) – baseball player - American: Josh BrolinJosh BrolinJosh James Brolin is an American actor. He has acted in theater, film and television roles since 1985, and won acting awards for his roles in the films W., No Country for Old Men, Milk and True Grit.-Early life:...
(born 1968) – actor - American: Joshua Duggar (born 1988) reality TV star
- American: Joshua Winslow Groban (Josh Groban) (born 1981) – singer-song writer
- American: Josh HartnettJosh HartnettJoshua Daniel "Josh" Hartnett is an American actor and aspiring producer. He first came to audiences' attention in 1997 as "Michael Fitzgerald" in the television series Cracker. He made his feature film debut in 1998, co-starring with Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later for Miramax...
(born 1978) – actor - American: Josh JasperJosh JasperJoshua Norwood "Josh" Jasper is an American football placekicker.He set the Tennessee state record for career high school field goals, with 44, and his longest field goal was 54 yards. In 2010, he was a Consensus College All-American placekicker for the LSU Tigers in his senior year, after...
(born 1987) – All-American college American footballAmerican footballAmerican football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
placekickerPlacekickerPlacekicker, or simply kicker , is the title of the player in American and Canadian football who is responsible for the kicking duties of field goals, extra points... - American: Josh McDanielsJosh McDanielsJosh McDaniels is the former head coach of the Denver Broncos and currently the offensive coordinator for the St. Louis Rams. He previously served as the quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator of the New England Patriots...
(born 1976) – football coach - American: Josh MillerJosh MillerJosh Miller is a former American football punter and current football analyst.He was signed by the Baltimore Stallions of the Canadian Football League as an undrafted free agent in 1994...
(born 1970) – NFL football punter - American: Josh A. MooreJosh A. MooreJosh Moore is an American professional basketball player and actor. Moore played his professional basketball in the NBA for the Los Angeles Clippers, in China and Iran. He played college basketball for the Michigan Wolverines and is known for his scoring ability...
(born 1980) – basketball player, entrepreneur, actor, and social commentator - American: Josh SatinJosh SatinJoshua Satin is an American second baseman for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball, who also plays first base and third base.He was a First Team College All American at the University of California, Berkeley...
(born 1984) – baseball player - American: Josh ServerJosh ServerJoshua Aaron "Josh" Server is an American actor and comedian, best known for being the only All That cast member to remain through the entire original 6 seasons.-Acting career:...
(born 1979) actor - American: Josh TavesJosh TavesJosh Heinrich Taves is a former professional American football player.-Biography:...
(born 1972) – NFL football defensive end - American: Josh WhitesellJosh WhitesellJoshua S. Whitesell is a 6' 1", 225-pound left-handed professional baseball first baseman for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball....
(born 1982) – baseball player - Australian: Josh MahoneyJosh MahoneyJoshua William Paul "Josh" Mahoney , is a former professional Australian rules footballer.- VFL career :After beginning his career in the TAC Cup with the Western Jets, Mahoney moved to the Williamstown Seagulls in the VFL, playing 19 games with them in 1996...
(born 1977) – former professional Australian rules footballer - Canadian: Josh WagenaarJosh WagenaarJoshua Frederick 'Josh' Wagenaar is a Canadian footballer who is currently a free agent.-Club career:...
(born 1985) – footballer - English: Josh KennetJosh Kennet-Early life:Kennet was born to a Jewish family in England, his father Eilon was born in Israel. Josh grew up in North London, and attended JFS school in Kingsbury. He showed early signs of ability in most sports particularly in football. He represented London schools in football and athletics...
(born 1987) – soccer midfielder/right back (Maccabi Herzliya) - English: Josh WiddicombeJosh Widdicombe-Career:Widdicombe began performing live in 2008, and made it to the final of 'So You Think You're Funny' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival during the same year. Widdicombe has performed at the Fringe Festival every year since, co-writing and performing in the sketch show Superclump in 2009. He also...
– stand-up comedian - Finnish: Josh TordjmanJosh TordjmanJosh Tordjman is a Canadian ice hockey goaltender who currently plays for the EC Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian Hockey League .- Playing career :...
(born 1985) - NHL ice hockey player - New Zealand: Josh KronfeldJosh KronfeldJoshua Adrian Kronfeld is a former rugby union footballer who represented New Zealand at international level and Otago, the Highlanders and Leicester at first-class level...
(born 1971) – rugby union flanker
Fictional characters
- American television: Josh LymanJosh LymanJoshua "Josh" Lyman is a fictional character played by Bradley Whitford on the television drama The West Wing. For the majority of the series, he was White House Deputy Chief of Staff in the Josiah Bartlet administration...
(1999–2006) - American television: Josh Bauer (debut 2007)
- American movie: Joshua (an AI machine from a 1983 sci-fi thriller named for scientist character Stephen Falken's son who died at age five)
- American novels: Joshua DeetsJoshua DeetsJoshua Deets is a fictional Texas Ranger appearing in two novels in the Lonesome Dove series by Larry McMurtry. In the films, he is played by Keith Robinson and Danny Glover.- Comanche Moon :...
(debut 1985) - American comics: Joshua ClayJoshua ClayJoshua Clay is a fictional character, a member of the superhero team Doom Patrol in comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Paul Kupperberg and Joe Staton, he first appears as the hero Tempest in Showcase #94 ....
(debut 1977) - Japanese anime/manga: Joshua Christopher
- Welsh television: Joshua Jones (TV series)Joshua Jones (TV series)Joshua Jones was a Welsh stop-motion children's television series made by Bumper Films . It was originally shown on S4C in the Welsh language in 1991, then it was translated into English and sold to the BBC in 1992....
(1991–1992)
See also
- JoshuaJoshuaJoshua , is a minor figure in the Torah, being one of the spies for Israel and in few passages as Moses's assistant. He turns to be the central character in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Joshua...
, information on the Biblical figure - JoshJoshJosh is a diminutive of the given name Joshua. "Josh" may also refer to:* Josh, the nom-de-plume of the poet Josh Malihabadi* "Josh", an early pseudonym of Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain* Josh , a Canadian Indian/Pakistani fusion band...
and YehoshuaYehoshuaYehoshua may refer to:* Yehoshua, the Hebrew of Joshua and Jesus* Book of Joshua , a book of the Bible* Yehoshua , a rare Hebrew surname* Joshua , a rare Hebrew given name...
, disambiguation pages - Yehoshua (surname)Yehoshua (surname)Yehoshua is a rare Hebrew surname that is presumably derived directly from the English translation of , which means roughly "YHWH rescues" or "YHWH is salvation"...
- Jesus (name)