Joy (given name)
Joy is a common unisex given name meaning joy, happiness, joyful. A common variant of the name is the other female given name Joyce (name).
Notable people with the given name include:
People with the given name Joy
- Joy (singer), South Korean singer and member of Red Velvet (group)
- Joy Adamson, wildlife rehabilitator and author
- Joy Alukkas, Indian businessman from Kerala
- Joy Ballard, British Headteacher on Educating Cardiff
- Joy Banerjee, Bengali cinema actor
- Joy Behar, American comedian and actress
- Joy Bokiri, Nigerian women's footballer
- Joy Browne, American radio psychologist
- Joy Bryant, American actress
- Joy Burke, Taiwanese-American women's basketball player
- Joy Carroll, Vicar who inspired The Vicar of Dibley
- Joy Cheek, American basketball player
- Joy Cherian, Commissioner at the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Joy Crookes, British singer-songwriter
- Joy Davidman, American writer and wife of C. S. Lewis
- Joy Destiny Tobing, Indonesian gospel singer
- Joy Enriquez, American singer and actress
- Joy Fawcett, American soccer player
- Joy Fleming, German singer
- Defne Joy Foster, Turkish actress, presenter, VJ
- Joy Garnett Canadian-American artist
- Joy Giovanni, American actress, model, wrestler, and WWE Diva
- Joy Grieveson, British track and field athlete
- Joy Paul Guilford, American psychologist
- Joy Harjo, American poet
- Joy Hohn, American politician
- Joy Kere diplomat from the Solomon Islands
- Joy Kogawa, Canadian poet and novelist
- Joy Laking, Canadian visual artist and author
- Joy Lauren, American actress
- Joy Lofthouse, British WW2 pilot
- Joy MacPhail, Canadian politician
- Joy Mangano, American inventor, and businesswoman
- Joy Marshall, New Zealand clergyman, teacher, tennis player, cricketer, and rugby footballer
- Joy Morris, Canadian mathematician
- Joy Morton, American businessman and conservationist
- Joy Mukherjee, Indian film actor and director
- Joy Ogwu, Nigerian politician and diplomat
- Joy Oladokun, American singer-songwriter
- Joy Padgett, American politician
- Joy Powell, American activist
- Joy Quigley, New Zealand politician
- Joy Reid, American cable television host with the full name Joy-Ann M. Lomena-Reid
- Joy San Buenaventura, Filipino-born American politician
- Joy Sarkar, Bengali music director
- Joy Sengupta, Indian film and stage actor
- Joy Smith, Canadian politician
- Joy Spence, Jamaican master blender
- Joy A. Thomas, American Indian-born informational theorist and scientist
- Joy Viado, Filipino comedian and actress
- Joy Williams (singer), American pop singer
- Joy Williams (Australian writer), Australian poet
- Joy Williams (American writer), American author
- Joy Wolfram, Finnish nanoscientist
- Samantha Joy Mostyn, Sam Mostyn, Australian businesswoman and Governor-General.
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.
- Joy C. Cordero, a character from Huwag Kang Mangamba
- Joy Wang, the daughter in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Played by Stephanie Hsu.