Joy

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Contents 1 People 2 Literature 3 Music 4 Miscellaneous

Joy is an emotion of great happiness.

Joy may also refer to:

[edit] People

• Alfred Harrison Joy, (1882–1973) an American astronomer
• Bill Joy, computer pioneer
• Norman H. Joy, British coleopterist
• Robert Joy, a Canadian character actor.
• C. Turner Joy
• Joseph Francis Joy, American inventor and founder of Joy Mining Machinery
• Joy Behar, American comedienne, TV host of The View, and actress
• Joy Giovanni former WWE Diva
• Henry Bourne Joy, automobile businessman
• Joy Williams, Christian singer
• Joy Enriquez, American singer who had success in the early 2000's

[edit] Literature

• Joy (novel), a 1990 novel by Marsha Hunt
• Joy series of erotic novels by Joy Laurey
• "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

[edit] Music

• "Joy", the final album by The Skids
• "Joy", a band from Austria
• Joy, a three-song EP by American punk band the Minutemen
• joy and JOY, a single and album by Japanese singer YUKI
• The fourth and final movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, also called "Ode to Joy"; inspired by the poem of Schiller
• "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 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 Division, a band from the United Kingdom
• Joy Records, a record label
• Joy Electric, a one-man electropop/synth pop/Christian group consisting of Ronnie Martin.

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Joy (programming language), a concatenative functional language
• Joy Melbourne, a radio station in Melbourne, Australia
• Joy (crater), a crater on the Moon
• Joy dishwashing liquid, a brand name of detergent products produced by Procter & Gamble
• Nurse Joy, a set of similar looking characters from the fictional Pokémo franchise that operate the Pokémo Centers.