Joy (disambiguation)

Joy may refer to:

• Happiness, an emotion

Music

• Joy (band)
• Joy (EP), by the Minutemen
• Joy (Avalon album)
• Joy (Paul King album)
• Joy (The Skids album)
• Joy (Stalin album)
• "Joy" (Psychic TV single)
• "Joy" (song), by François Feldman
• Joy to the World is a popular Christmas carol.
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring is the title of the 10th movement of the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 composed by Johann Sebastian Bach.
• "Joy," a song by Against Me! on the album Searching for a Former Clarity
• "Joy," a song by Mick Jagger on the album Goddess in the Doorway
• "Joy," a song by VNV Nation on the album Praise the Fallen
• "Joy," a song by Lucinda Williams on the album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
• "Joy", a song by Whitney Houston from The Preacher's Wife: Original Soundtrack Album
• "Joy," a song by Soul II Soul on the album Just Right Vol. III
• "Joy," a single and album by Yuki Isoya
• Joy Records, a record label

Literature

• Joy (novel), a 1990 novel by Marsha Hunt
• Joy (novels), a series of novels by Joy Laurey
• Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (novel), a novel / partial autobiography by C.S. Lewis

Television

• "Joy" (House), a television episode
• Joy Turner, fictional character on the US sitcom My Name is Earl
• Nurse Joy, several characters in the Pokemon series

Places

• Joy, Illinois, United States
• Joy Range, Nunavut, Canada
• Mount Joy, the name of several places

People with the surname Joy

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

People with the given name Joy

• Joy Behar, American comedian, TV host of The View, and actress
• Joy Davidman (d. 1960), American writer and wife of C. S. Lewis
• Joy Destiny Tobing, winner of the first Indonesian Idol
• Joy Enriquez, American singer
• Joy Fawcett, American soccer player
• Joy Garnett, New York artist
• Joy Giovanni, Former WWE diva
• Joy Grieveson, British track and field athlete
• Joy Harjo, American poet
• Joy Kogawa, Canadian poet and novelist
• Joy Lauren, American actress
• Joy Ogwu, Nigerian foreign minister
• Joy Padgett, Republican member of the Ohio Senate
• Joy Quigley, New Zealand politician
• Joy Saha, Bangladeshi bassist
• Joy Smith, Canadian politician
• Joy Williams (musician), Christian singer
• Joy Williams (Australian writer), Australian author of poetry
• Joy Williams (writer), American author of fiction

Other uses

• Joy (dishwashing liquid)
• Joy (programming language)
• Joy 94.9, a radio station
• USS Turner Joy (DD-951), a warship