Joy Facts for Kids

Joy is an emotion of great happiness. Joy can also be interpreted as a person's name.

Joy may also refer to:

Joy as a surname

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

Joy Behar, American comedian, TV host of The View, and actress
Joy Davidman, American writer and wife of C. S. Lewis (d. 1960)
Joy Destiny Tobing, winner of the first Indonesian Idol
Joy Enriquez, American singer who had success in the early 2000s
Joy Fawcett, an American soccer player
Joy Garnett, a New York artist
Joy Giovanni, WWE diva
Joy Grieveson (Elizabeth Grieveson), British track and field athlete
Joy Harjo, an American poet
Joy Kogawa, a Canadian poet and novelist
Joy Lauren, an American actress
Joy Mustafi, Computer Scientist, India, Indian Statistical Institute
Joy Ogwu, a Nigerian foreign minister
Joy Padgett, a Republican member of the Ohio Senate
Joy Quigley, a New Zealand politician
Joy Smith, a Canadian politician
Joy Turner, a fictional character on the US sitcom My Name is Earl, played by Jaime Pressly
Joy Williams, Christian singer
Judy-Joy Davies, an Australian backstroke swimmer of the 1940s
Joy Chang, a student
Joy Serg, "Embargo" guild member

Joy (novel), a 1990 novel by Marsha Hunt
"Ode to Joy" ("An die Freude" in German), an ode written in 1785 by the German poet and historian Friedrich Schiller
Surprised by Joy, an autobiographical work by C. S. Lewis

The fourth and final movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, also called "Ode to Joy"; inspired by the poem of Schiller
Joy to the World (disambiguation), the title of a Christmas carol and several other songs
Joy (album), the final album by The Skids
Joy (EP), a three-song EP by American punk band the Minutemen
Joy (The Stalin), the first album by Japanese punk rock band The Stalin
Joy (Avalon album), a holiday album by Avalon
Joy (Paul King album), the one solo album by Paul King
"Joy", a single by experimental group Psychic TV
Joy and Joy, a single and album by Japanese singer Yuki Isoya
"Joy", a song by Against Me! from their album Searching for a Former Clarity
"Joy", a song by Lucinda Williams on her album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
"Joy", a song by François Feldman on his album Indigo
"Joy", a song by VNV Nation on their album Praise the Fallen
"Joy", a song by Mick Jagger on his album Goddess in the Doorway
"A Joy", a song by Four Tet on his album Everything Ecstatic
"Joy", an Italo Disco Austrian band, well known for their hit Touch By Touch (1985)
Joy Division, a band from the United Kingdom
Joy Electric, a one-man electropop/synth-pop/Christian group consisting of Ronnie Martin
Joy Records, a record label

Joy, Illinois, a village in the United States
Joys Green, a village in Gloucestershire, England
Joy Range, a mountain range on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada
Port La-Joye / Fort Amherst, French for "Port of Joy", located in central Prince Edward Island, Canada
Several places called Mount Joy

Joy Buzzer, a practical joke device
Joy (programming language), a concatenative functional language
Joy Melbourne, a radio station in Melbourne, Australia
Joy dishwashing liquid, a brand name of detergent products produced by Procter & Gamble
The Joy of Painting, a television program hosted by Bob Ross
Joystick, a computer game control device
Nurse Joy, a set of similar looking characters from the fictional Pokémon franchise that operate the Pokémon Centers.
USS Daniel A Joy (DE 585), a rudderow class destroyer
USS Turner Joy (DD-951), a US Navy destroyer named after C. Turner Joy (above)

Laughter, like that of these Bangladeshi children, is a typical expression of joy.