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 The Sacred Stones
• Joshua (puppet) A humanoid puppet

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