Joy (given name)
Joy is a common unisex given name meaning joy, happiness, joyful. A common variant of the name is the female given name Joyce (name).
People with the given name Joy
- Joy (singer) (born 1996), South Korean singer and member of Red Velvet (group)
- Joy Adamson (1910–1980), wildlife rehabilitator and author
- Joy Banerjee (born 1963), Bengali cinema actor
- Joy Behar (born 1942), American comedian and actress
- Joy Bokiri (born 1998), Nigerian women's footballer
- Joy Bryant (born 1974), American actress
- Joy Browne (born 1944), American radio psychologist
- Joy Burke (born 1990), Taiwanese-American women's basketball player
- Joy Carroll Vicar who inspired The Vicar of Dibley
- Joy Crookes (born 1998), British singer-songwriter
- Joy Davidman (1915–1960), American writer and wife of C. S. Lewis
- Joy Destiny Tobing (born 1980), Indonesian gospel singer
- Joy Enriquez (born 1978), American singer and actress
- Joy Fawcett (born 1968), American soccer player
- Joy Fleming (1944–2017), German singer
- Defne Joy Foster (1975–2011), Turkish actress, presenter, VJ
- Joy Garnett (born 1965) Canadian-American artist
- Joy Giovanni (born 1978), American actress, model, wrestler, and WWE Diva
- Joy Grieveson (born 1941), British track and field athlete
- Joy Paul Guilford (1897-1987), American psychologist
- Joy Harjo (born 1951), American poet
- Joy Kere diplomat from the Solomon Islands
- Joy Kogawa (born 1935), Canadian poet and novelist
- Joy Lauren (born 1989), American actress
- Joy Lofthouse (1923–2017), British WW2 pilot
- Joy Mangano (born 1956), American inventor, and businesswoman
- Joy Marshall (1867–1903), New Zealand clergyman, teacher, tennis player, cricketer, and rugby footballer
- Joy Morris (born 1970), Canadian mathematician
- Joy Morton (1855–1934), American businessman and conservationist
- Joy Mukherjee (1939–2012), Indian film actor and director
- Joy Ogwu (born 1946), Nigerian diplomat
- Joy Oladokun, American singer-songwriter
- Joy Padgett (born 1947), American politician
- Joy Powell (born 1962),American activist
- Joy Quigley (born 1948), New Zealand politician
- Joy Reid (born 1968), American cable television host with the full name Joy-Ann M. Lomena-Reid
- Joy San Buenaventura (born 1959), Filipino-born American politician
- Joy Sarkar, Bengali music director
- Joy A. Thomas (1963-2020), American Indian-born informational theorist and scientist
- Joy Smith (born 1947), Canadian politician
- Joy Williams (singer) (born 1982), American pop singer
- Joy Williams (Australian writer) (1942–2006), Australian poet
- Joy Williams (American writer) (born 1944), American author
- Joy Wolfram (born 1989), Finnish nanoscientist.
- Joy Cherian (born 1944), Commissioner at the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Joy Sengupta (born 1968), Indian film and stage actor
Fictional characters
- Joy, one of Riley Andersen's emotions and the main protagonist of Disney Pixar's Inside Out.
- Nurse Joy, a nurse from the Pokémon TV series.
See also
- Gioia (disambiguation), the Italian version of the name
- Joie, the French version of the name
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