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.People with the given name Joy
- Joy Adamson, wildlife rehabilitator and author
- Joy Banerjee, Bengali cinema actor
- Joy Behar, American comedian and actress
- Joy Bokiri, Nigerian women's footballer
- Joy Bryant, American actress
- Joy Browne, American radio psychologist
- Joy Burke, Taiwanese-American women's basketball player
- Joy Carroll Vicar who inspired The Vicar of Dibley
- 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 Harjo, American poet
- Joy Kere diplomat from the Solomon Islands
- Joy Kogawa, Canadian poet and novelist
- Joy Lauren, American actress
- Joy Lofthouse, British WW2 pilot
- 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 diplomat
- Joy Padgett, American politician
- Joy Quigley, New Zealand politician
- Joy San Buenaventura, Filipino-born American politician
- Joy Sarkar, Bengali music director
- Joy Smith, Canadian politician
- Joy Williams , American pop singer
- Joy Williams , Australian poet
- Joy Williams , American author
Fictional characters
Joy, one of Riley Andersen's emotions and the main protagonist of Disney Pixar's Inside Out.