* Fashion illustration: Joel Resnicoff

* 1975 – Joel West, American actor and model

* 1936 – Joel Kovel, American politician, scholar, and author

Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 1955 – 2002, Record Research, Inc. ISBN 0-89820-155-1

* 1939 – Joel Schumacher, American director

* 1963 – Joel Murray, American actor

* 1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, though it took ten years for the DynaTAC 8000X to become the first such phone to be commercially released.

The Prophet Joel as imagined by Michelangelo ( Fresco, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, 1508 – 1512 )

The Masoretic text places Joel between Hosea and Amos ( the order inherited by the Tanakh and Old Testament ), while the Septuagint order is Hosea – Amos – Micah – Joel – Obadiah – Jonah.

The traditional ascription of the whole book to the prophet Joel was challenged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by a theory of a three stage process of composition: 1: 1 – 2: 27 were from the hand of Joel, and dealt with a contemporary issue ; 2: 28 – 3: 21 were ascribed to a continuator with an apocalyptic outlook.

Russia n icon of the prophet Joel ( Iconostasis of Kizhi monastery, c. 1700 – 1725 )

* 1952 – Joel Garner, Barbadian cricketer

* 1845 – Joel Chandler Harris, American writer ( d. 1908 )

* 1963 – Joel Gretsch, American actor

Elton John holds the all-time record for greatest number of appearances at the Garden with 62 shows ( the 60th occurring on his 60th birthday, March 25, 2007 ), and Billy Joel set a record in 2006 during his 12 performance run, the longest run of a single artist at the venue.

* Underground comics artist Joel Beck lived in El Sobrante and attended De Anza High School.

* Faculty — Among the current faculty of the college are Chinese historian and philosopher Ellen Neskar, fine art photographer Joel Sternfeld, poet Suzanne Gardinier, novelist Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist William Melvin Kelley, Middle Eastern Affairs expert Fawaz Gerges, poet Marie Howe, film historians Gilberto Perez and Malcolm Turvey, mathematician Dan King, chemist Colin Abernethy, biologist Drew Cressman, puppet-theatre artist Dan Hurlin, dancer / choreographer Sara Rudner and economist Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III.

Among his college friends were Timothy Dwight IV, who later became one of Yale's great presidents ; John Trumbull, poet and lawyer ( not the artist ); and Joel Barlow, poet and diplomat.

The character first appeared in X-Man # 15 ( May 1996 ), and was co-created by writers Joel Escolano, Scott Lobdell, Mark Waid, and artist Andy Kubert.

In May 2011, Joel Plaskett became the first artist in the network's history to reach one million on-demand plays.

* Joel Samuel Polack ( 1807 – 1882 ), trader, land speculator, writer and artist in pre-colonial New Zealand

* Joel Pelletier, American artist, musician and writer

* TCM Remembers 2007: Solveig Dommartin, Ulrich Mühe, producer Carlo Ponti, Charles Lane, Miyoshi Umeki, Mala Powers, writer Peter Viertel, writer Norman Mailer, Barbara McNair, producer Sidney Sheldon, Ron Carey, cinematographer László Kovács, director Delbert Mann, writer A. I. Bezzerides, Bud Ekins, Deborah Kerr, Calvin Lockhart, Betty Hutton, Marcel Marceau, film critic Joel Siegel, Yvonne De Carlo, Bobby Mauch, Lois Maxwell, Barry Nelson, make-up artist William J. Tuttle, Alice Ghostley, Jack Williams, Gordon Scott, Laraine Day, Roscoe Lee Browne, Michel Serrault, writer Bernard Gordon, Richard Jeni, Kitty Carlisle Hart, director Bob Clark, director Richard Franklin, cinematographer Freddie Francis, Kerwin Mathews, Frankie Laine, Robert Goulet, Jack Valenti, director Michelangelo Antonioni, Jane Wyman and director Ingmar Bergman.

Joel Gibb ( born 28 January 1977 ) is a Berlin-based Canadian artist and singer-songwriter who leads the " gay church folk " group The Hidden Cameras.

The album art was created by Dieselboy with graphic artist Joel Savitzky.

Joel Queen, award-winning Eastern Band sculptor and ceramic artist

* Joel Shapiro, artist and sculptor

Later in 1973, the Clocktower Gallery, located in a 13-story municipal Beaux-Arts building at 108 Leonard Street, opened with its inaugural three shows: Joel Shapiro, Richard Tuttle, and James Bishop ( artist ).

Fascinated by the complementarity between paintings and photography, he became later a New York photographer and artist in Soho, where he realized among other works well-known posters of Miles Davis, Sting and Billy Joel.

* Joel Zimmerman ( born 1981 ), progressive house artist known as Deadmau5

The album art was created by Dieselboy with graphic artist Joel Savitzky.

NorthPark's tradition of showcasing major works by world-renowned artists from Andy Warhol and Frank Stella to Jonathan Borofsky and Jim Dine continues with three recent acquisitions by NorthPark's owners, David J. Haemisegger and Nancy A. Nasher: the monumental Ad Astra, 2005, a-tall, 12-ton, orange steel giant sculpture by New York artist Mark di Suvero ; the enormous ,-tall, large-scale, stainless steel and aluminum sculpture Corridor Pin, Blue ( 1999 ), by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen ; and 20 elements ( 2005 ), Joel Shapiro's vividly painted sculpture of 20 wooden blocks of varying sizes joined together.

Artists with works previously released on the label include the Joel Rafael Band and Native American activist and spoken word artist John Trudell.

Joel arap Kimeto, a renowned gospel artist and director of radio Injili 103. 7 FM formerly at Chepsir, North of Kericho town.

* Joel Leibensperger-Solo artist

Joel Davis of Davis Publications approached Asimov to lend his name to a new science fiction magazine, after the fashion of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine or Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.

In the fall of 1995, fashion designers John Bartlett, Anna Sui, and Joel Fitzpatrick began featuring them in their collections.

Mazur was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Ruby Mazur, an illustrator who has worked in the record industry and at one time was the manager of Billy Joel.

Joel came and sat mutely with her, sharing her pain and anguish, averting his eyes from the ice packs on her bosom.

Uncle Randolph and Joel had replanted the bottom lands with difficulty, for more of the slaves, including Annie, had sneaked off when the soldiers broke camp.

Joel worked like a field hand in the afternoons after school.

Joel knew what he was about, however.

`` You're gonna get caught '', she heard Joel say to Uncle Randolph by the pump one morning.

`` Whiskey still, my foot '', said Joel.

He patted the eye Joel had had blackened in a fight over being Rebel at the crossroads some days back.

Kate drew more and more on her affection for Joel through the hot days of summer work.

She had taken him out of the schoolhouse and closed the school for the summer, after she saw Miss Snow crack Joel across the face with a ruler for letting a snake loose in the schoolroom.

Joel went to the crest of a hill behind the house and lit an enormous victory bonfire to celebrate.

It would be better for Joel and Uncle Randolph and Mrs. Tussle not to see them.

In substance they lie somewhere between the Southern dialect animal stories of Joel Chandler Harris ( Uncle Remus ) and the polished, witty fables of James Thurber.

After leading in the first six rounds of voting in the Illinois assembly, his support began to dwindle, and Lincoln instructed his backers to vote for Lyman Trumbull, who defeated opponent Joel Aldrich Matteson.

Joel Chandler Harris's ' Br ' er Rabbit ' of the Uncle Remus stories is said to be patterned after High John the Conqueror.

Some of the many theoreticians that have written about the NDR include Joe Slovo, Joel Netshitenzhe, Tshilidzi Marwala.

The journal began as The Analyst in 1874 and was established and edited by Joel E. Hendricks.

The cast featured Richard Kind as Pseudolus, Joel Blum as Senex, Stephen DeRosa as Marcus Lycus, Sean McCall as Hysterium, and Steve Wilson as Miles Gloriosus.

The five-string banjo was popularized by Joel Walker Sweeney, an American minstrel performer from Appomattox Court House, Virginia.

Only Joel Schumacher might have had an opposing view.

In his second first-class match he made 92 against a Barbados attack containing Joel Garner and Malcolm Marshall, two greats of West Indies teams.

The Book of Joel is part of the Hebrew Bible.