Joshua (disambiguation)
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Joshua is a common name for boys commonly shortened to Josh. It may refer to:
People
Joshua
- Joshua, Biblical character, much of whose life is described in the Book of Joshua
- Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean nationalist leader, a Ndebele, and the leader and founder of the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU)
- Several Emperors of Ethiopia were called Iyasu (Joshua)
- * Iyasu I (1692–1706)
- * Iyasu II (1730–1755)
- * Iyasu III (1784–1788)
- * Iyasu IV (1830–1832)
- * Iyasu V (1913–1916) but never crowned
Josh
- JoSH, a Canadian band
- Josh Duhamel, an American actor
- Josh Hartnett, an American actor
- Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet
- Josh Peck, an American actor
- Josh Laird, the first New Zealander from Caldicott Preparatory School, Farnham Royal, to make it into Eton College, Eton
- Josh Rowe, an Australian tattoo designer, systems technician, basketball player, karate student and party animal - also considered to be american by some
Places
- Joshua Tree, California, a census-designated place located in San Bernardino County, California, U.S..
- Joshua, Texas, city located in Johnson County, Texas
Things
- Generation Joshua, a religious home school movement
- Joshua (novel), a 1983 best-selling novel by Joseph Girzone
- Joshua tree, a monocotyledonous tree native to southwestern North America, in the states of California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada
- The Joshua Tree, an album by U2
- Joshua, the code name for the WOPR computer in the 1983 movie WarGames
- Joshua (Fire Emblem) A character from the video game
- Joshua (puppet) A humanoid puppet
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