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)