Joy (given name)
Joy is a common female given name meaning joy, happiness, joyful. A common variant of the name is the Latin female given name Joyce (name).
People with the given name Joy
- Joy Adamson (1910–1980), wildlife rehabilitator and author
- Joy Banerjee (1963–), Bengali cinema actor
- Joy Behar (1942–), American comedian and actress
- Joy Bryant (born 1974), American actress
- Joy Browne (1944–), American radio psychologist
- Joy Davidman (1915–1960), American writer and wife of C. S. Lewis
- Joy Destiny Tobing, (1980–), Indonesian gospel singer
- Joy Enriquez (1978–), American singer and actress
- Joy Fawcett (1968–), American soccer player
- Defne Joy Foster (1975–2011), Turkish actress, presenter, VJ
- Joy Garnett, (1965-) Canadian-American artist
- Joy Giovanni (1978–), American actress, model, professional wrestler, and former WWE Diva
- Joy Grieveson (1941–), British track and field athlete
- Joy Harjo (1951–), American poet
- Joy Kogawa (1935–), Canadian poet and novelist
- Joy Lauren (1989–), American actress
- Joy Mangano (1956–), American inventor, businesswoman, and entrepreneur
- Joy Morton (1855–1934), American businessman and conservationist
- Joy Mukherjee, (1939-2012) Indian film actor and director
- Joy Ogwu (1946–), Nigerian diplomat
- Joy Padgett (1947–), Ohio state Senator
- Joy Quigley (1948–), New Zealand politician
- Joy Sarkar, Bengali music director
- Joy Smith (1947–), Canadian politician
- Joy Williams (singer) (1982–), American pop singer
- Joy Williams (Australian writer) (1942–2006), Australian poet
- Joy Williams (American writer) (1944–), American author
Fictional characters with the given name Joy
- Joy Turner, fictional character on the US sitcom My Name is Earl
- Nurse Joy, several characters in the Pokémon series
- The Bugaloos, One of the band member's was named Joy
- Joy "Ma" Newsome, main character in the novel Room and its film adaptation.
- Joy, one of the main characters of the Christian series Superbook.
- Joy, main character from Inside Out
See also
- Gioia (disambiguation), the Italian version of the name
- Joie, the French version of the name
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