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)