# Joy (given name)

Joy is a common unisex given name meaning joy, happiness, joyful. A common variant of the name is the female given name Joyce (name).
Notable people with the given name include:

## People with the given name Joy

* Joy (singer) (born 1996), South Korean singer and member of Red Velvet (group)
* Joy Adamson (1910–1980), wildlife rehabilitator and author
* Joy Alukkas (born 1956), Indian businessman from Kerala
* Joy Ballard (born 1966), British Headteacher on Educating Cardiff
* Joy Banerjee (born 1963), Bengali cinema actor
* Joy Behar (born 1942), American comedian and actress
* Joy Bokiri (born 1998), Nigerian women's footballer
* Joy Bryant (born 1974), American actress
* Joy Browne (1944–2016), American radio psychologist
* Joy Burke (born 1990), Taiwanese-American women's basketball player
* Joy Carroll Vicar who inspired The Vicar of Dibley
* Joy Cherian (born 1944), Commissioner at the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
* Joy Crookes (born 1998), British singer-songwriter
* Joy Davidman (1915–1960), American writer and wife of C. S. Lewis
* Joy Destiny Tobing (born 1980), Indonesian gospel singer
* Joy Enriquez (born 1978), American singer and actress
* Joy Fawcett (born 1968), American soccer player
* Joy Fleming (1944–2017), German singer
* Defne Joy Foster (1975–2011), Turkish actress, presenter, VJ
* Joy Garnett (born 1965) Canadian-American artist
* Joy Giovanni (born 1978), American actress, model, wrestler, and WWE Diva
* Joy Grieveson (born 1941), British track and field athlete
* Joy Paul Guilford (1897–1987), American psychologist
* Joy Harjo (born 1951), American poet
* Joy Kere diplomat from the Solomon Islands
* Joy Kogawa (born 1935), Canadian poet and novelist
* Joy Lauren (born 1989), American actress
* Joy Lofthouse (1923–2017), British WW2 pilot
* Joy MacPhail (born 1952), Canadian politician
* Joy Mangano (born 1956), American inventor, and businesswoman
* Joy Marshall (1867–1903), New Zealand clergyman, teacher, tennis player, cricketer, and rugby footballer
* Joy Morris (born 1970), Canadian mathematician
* Joy Morton (1855–1934), American businessman and conservationist
* Joy Mukherjee (1939–2012), Indian film actor and director
* Joy Ogwu (born 1946), Nigerian diplomat
* Joy Oladokun, American singer-songwriter
* Joy Padgett (born 1947), American politician
* Joy Powell (born 1962), American activist
* Joy Quigley (born 1948), New Zealand politician
* Joy Reid (born 1968), American cable television host with the full name Joy-Ann M. Lomena-Reid
* Joy San Buenaventura (born 1959), Filipino-born American politician
* Joy Sarkar, Bengali music director
* Joy Sengupta (born 1968), Indian film and stage actor
* Joy A. Thomas (1963–2020), American Indian-born informational theorist and scientist
* Joy Smith (born 1947), Canadian politician
* Joy Viado (1959–2016), Filipino comedian and actress
* Joy Williams (singer) (born 1982), American pop singer
* Joy Williams (Australian writer) (1942–2006), Australian poet
* Joy Williams (American writer) (born 1944), American author
* Joy Wolfram (born 1989), Finnish nanoscientist
* Samantha Joy Mostyn, Sam Mostyn, Australian businesswoman and Governor-General.

## Fictional characters

* Joy, one of Riley Andersen's emotions and the main protagonist of Disney Pixar's Inside Out.
* Nurse Joy, a nurse from the Pokémon TV series.
* Joy C. Cordero, a character from Huwag Kang Mangamba
* Joy Wang, the daughter in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022 film). Played by Stephanie Hsu.