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)