Yehoshua (given name) explained

Yehoshua is a masculine given name related to Joshua. People named Yehoshua include:

• Gerónimo de Santa Fe (fl. 1550–1620), Spanish physician and religious writer born Yehosúa ben Yosef
• Yehoshua Cohen (1922-1986), assassin of Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte
• Yehoshua Leib Diskin (1818–1898), Lithuanian rabbi, Talmudist and Biblical commentator
• Yehoshua Rokeach (1825–1894), second Rebbe of the Belz Hasidic dynasty, born in the Austrian Empire
• Yehoshua Rozin (1918–2002), Egyptian-born Israeli basketball coach
• Yehoshua Schwartz (born 1954), Israeli basketball player
• Yehoshua Sobol (born 1939), Israeli playwright, writer, and director
• Yehoshua Zettler (1917–2009), Jerusalem commander of the Jewish paramilitary group Lehi (Stern gang), planned and carried out the assassination of Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte