Joy

Joy is an emotion of great happiness. Joy can also be interpreted as a person's name.

Joy may also refer to:

Joy as a surname

• Alfred Harrison Joy, American astronomer (d. 1973)
• Bernard Joy, English footballer (d.1984)
• Bill Joy, Computer Pioneer (William Joy)
• Brian Joy, a former English footballer
• C. Turner Joy, an admiral of the United States Navy (d. 1956)
• Charles Frederick Joy, U.S. politician from Missouri (d. 1921)
• George William Joy, an Irish illustrator (d.1925)
• Greg Joy, a Canadian Olympic athlete
• Henry Bourne Joy, automobile businessman (d. 1936)
• Ian Joy, an American soccer player
• Joseph Francis Joy, American inventor and founder of Joy Mining Machinery (d.1957)
• Leatrice Joy, an American silent film actress (d. 1985)
• Mary E. Joy, a British author and journalist (d. 1898)
• Mike Joy, a TV sports announcer currently with NASCAR and FOX Sports
• Norman H. Joy, British coleopterist noted for his work Practical Handbook of British Beetles (d. 1953)
• Prosenjit Joy, a cricketer from Bangladesh
• Rick Joy, an American architect
• Robert Joy, Canadian character actor

Joy as a given name

• Joy Behar, American comedian, TV host of The View, and actress
• Joy Davidman, American writer and wife of C. S. Lewis (d. 1960)
• Joy Destiny Tobing, winner of the first Indonesian Idol
• Joy Enriquez, American singer who had success in the early 2000s
• Joy Fawcett, an American soccer player
• Joy Garnett, a New York artist
• Joy Giovanni, WWE diva
• Joy Grieveson (Elizabeth Grieveson), British track and field athlete
• Joy Harjo, an American poet
• Joy Kogawa, a Canadian poet and novelist
• Joy Lauren, an American actress
• Joy Mustafi, Computer Scientist, India, Indian Statistical Institute
• Joy Ogwu, a Nigerian foreign minister
• Joy Padgett, a Republican member of the Ohio Senate
• Joy Quigley, a New Zealand politician
• Joy Smith, a Canadian politician
• Joy Turner, a fictional character on the US sitcom My Name is Earl, played by Jaime Pressly
• Joy Williams, Christian singer
• Judy-Joy Davies, an Australian backstroke swimmer of the 1940s
• Joy Chang, a student
• Joy Serg, "Embargo" guild member

Literature

• Joy (novel), a 1990 novel by Marsha Hunt
• Joy (novels), series of erotic novels by Joy Laurey
• "Ode to Joy" ("An die Freude" in German), an ode written in 1785 by the German poet and historian Friedrich Schiller
• Surprised by Joy, an autobiographical work by C. S. Lewis
• The Joy of Sex, an illustrated sex manual by Alex Comfort, M.D., Ph.D.

Music

• The fourth and final movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, also called "Ode to Joy"; inspired by the poem of Schiller
• Joy to the World (disambiguation), the title of a Christmas carol and several other songs
• Joy (album), the final album by The Skids
• Joy (EP), a three-song EP by American punk band the Minutemen
• Joy (The Stalin), the first album by Japanese punk rock band The Stalin
• Joy (Avalon album), a holiday album by Avalon
• Joy (Paul King album), the one solo album by Paul King
• "Joy", a single by experimental group Psychic TV
• Joy and Joy, a single and album by Japanese singer Yuki Isoya
• "Joy", a song by Against Me! from their album Searching for a Former Clarity
• "Joy", a song by Lucinda Williams on her album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
• "Joy", a song by François Feldman on his album Indigo
• "Joy", a song by VNV Nation on their album Praise the Fallen
• "Joy", a song by Mick Jagger on his album Goddess in the Doorway
• "A Joy", a song by Four Tet on his album Everything Ecstatic
• "Joy", an Italo Disco Austrian band, well known for their hit Touch By Touch (1985)
• Joy Division, a band from the United Kingdom
• Joy Electric, a one-man electropop/synth-pop/Christian group consisting of Ronnie Martin
• Joy Records, a record label

Joy as place name

• Joy, Illinois, a village in the United States
• Joys Green, a village in Gloucestershire, England
• Joy Range, a mountain range on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada
• Port La-Joye / Fort Amherst, French for "Port of Joy", located in central Prince Edward Island, Canada
• Several places called Mount Joy

Miscellaneous

• Joy Buzzer, a practical joke device
• Joy (programming language), a concatenative functional language
• Joy Melbourne, a radio station in Melbourne, Australia
• Joy dishwashing liquid, a brand name of detergent products produced by Procter & Gamble
• The Joy of Painting, a television program hosted by Bob Ross
• Joystick, a computer game control device
• Nurse Joy, a set of similar looking characters from the fictional Pokémon franchise that operate the Pokémon Centers.
• USS Daniel A Joy (DE 585), a rudderow class destroyer
• USS Turner Joy (DD-951), a US Navy destroyer named after C. Turner Joy (above)