List of Famous people named Joost

Joost Posthuma is a Dutch retired professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2004 and 2012. Born in Hengelo, Posthuma was known for his time-trialling and he wore the white jersey for the best young rider at the 2006 Tour de France. Posthuma set the best time for riders eligible for the young rider classification in the prologue, but lost it after the 1st road stage, after a rival got in a breakaway and got bonus seconds on the road.

Joseph Ignatius Maria "Joost" Hoffscholte is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). He served as Mayor of Dalen from 1 October 1977 until 25 June 1985 when he became Mayor of Aalsmeer serving from 25 June 1985 until 1 September 2007.

Joost van Leijen is a Dutch former professional road cyclist, who competed as a professional between 2010 and 2013.

Joost Lagendijk is a Dutch politician who was a columnist with the Turkish dailies Zaman and Today's Zaman until these newspapers were closed by the Turkish government. From 2009 till 2012 he was a senior adviser at the Istanbul Policy Center at Sabancı University. He is a former GreenLeft (G/EFA) Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and served as the joint chairman of the Turkey-EU Parliamentarians delegation.