Joel Cohen is the name of:

Joel Cohen (musician) (1942–2026), American musician specializing in early music repertoires Joel Cohen (writer) (born 1963), American screenwriter Joel H. Cohen, Canadian television writer for The Simpsons Joel Ephraim Cohen (born 1944), American mathematical biologist

See also Joel Coen (born 1954), of the Coen brothers Joel-Cohen incision, a popular technique for performing caesarean section