Joyce
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There are several notable individuals with the name Joyce:
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[edit] As a first name
- Joyce, (b. 1948), Brazilian singer-songwriter
- Joyce Blair, (1932 - 2006), English actress and dancer
- Joyce Brabner, (1952), writer of political comics
- Dr. Joyce Brothers, (1928), TV personality
- Joyce Bulifant, (1937), American actress
- Joyce Carey, (1898 - 1993), British actress
- Joyce Cary, (1888 - 1957), Irish novelist
- Joyce Cavalcante, (1949), Brazilian novelist
- Joyce Chen, chef with a line of cookware
- Joyce Chiang, (1970 - 1999), Taiwanese-American woman who disappeared and was later found dead in Washington DC in a manner similar to Chandra Levy
- Joyce Chopra, (1938), American film director
- Joyce Compton, (1907 - 1997), American actress
- Joyce DeWitt, (1949), American actress (Three's Company)
- Joyce Mina Godenzi, (1965), beauty queen and actress of Chinese and Australian descent
- Joyce Grenfell, (1910 - 1979), English actress, comedienne & singer-songwriter
- Joyce Hyser, (1957), American actress
- Joyce Jimenez, (1978), Filipino American actress
- Joyce Kilmer, (1886 - 1918), American poet
- Joyce MacKenzie, (1929), American actress
- Joyce Maynard, (1953), American writer
- Joyce Meyer, (1943), Christian Evangelical author & speaker
- Joyce Nizzari, (1940), American model & actress
- Joyce Carol Oates, (1938), American novelist
- Joyce Randolph, (1925), American actress
- Joyce Redman, (1918), British actress
- Joyce K. Reynolds, computer science professor
- Joyce Carol Thomas, (1938), African American playwright, illustrator and children's books authors
- Joyce Van Patten, (1934), American actress
[edit] As a last name
- Alice Joyce, (1890 - 1955), American actress
- Bill Joyce, (1887 - ?), Scottish footballer
- Bill Joyce, (1865 - 1941), American baseball player
- Bob Joyce, (1966), Canadian ice hockey player
- Barnaby Joyce, (1967), Australian politician
- Brenda Joyce, American author
- Brenda Joyce, (1912), American actress
- Brian A. Joyce, Democratic state Senator from Massachusetts
- David Joyce, (1825 - 1904), American lumber baron and industrialist whose daughter, Beatrice Joyce Kean, established the Joyce Foundation
- Ed Joyce, (1978), Irish cricketer
- Eileen Joyce, (1912 - 1991), Australian pianist
- Elaine Joyce, (1945), American actress
- Ella Joyce, (1954), American actress
- Emily Joyce, (1970), British actress
- Eric Joyce, (1960), British politician and member of Parliament
- George Joyce, (1618 - ?1670?), agitator during the English Civil War
- Gerald Joyce, (1956), scientist
- Gilbert Cunningham Joyce, (1866 - 1942), educator and Bishop of Monmouth
- Graham Joyce, English science fiction writer
- Isaac Wilson Joyce, (1836 - 1905), American bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church
- James Joyce, (1882 - 1941), Irish novelist
- Jim Joyce, (1955), Major League Baseball umpire
- Joan Joyce, (1940), softball icon, among other sports
- Kara Lynn Joyce, (1985), American swimmer, competed at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games
- Michael Joyce, (1945), American author and professor of English at Vassar College
- Michael Joyce, (1973), American tennis player
- Mike Joyce, (1963), British drummer (The Smiths)
- Patrick H. Joyce, (1879 - 1946) American railroad executive
- Peggy Hopkins Joyce, (1893 - 1957), American actress
- Robert Dwyer Joyce, (1830 - 1883), Irish poet
- Ron Joyce, (1930), Canadian billionaire and co-founder of Tim Horton's donut chain
- Ryan Joyce, Canadian illusionist
- Trevor Joyce, (1947), Irish poet
- Warren Joyce, (1965), English footballer
- William Joyce, British Nazi propagandist
- William Joyce, (1957), American children's books author & illustrator
- Yootha Joyce, (1927 - 1980), English actress
[edit] As fictional characters
- Joyce Benson, fictional character on the short-lived seventies comedy, Angie
- Joyce Summers, (1958 - 2001), the mother of Buffy Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
[edit] Place names
- Burton Joyce, large village in Nottinghamshire, England
[edit] Other uses
Some models of the Amstrad PCW were also affectionately known as Joyce, especially in Germany; the name is that of a secretary of Alan Sugar, the founder of Amstrad, and was the codename of the machine while it was in development.
Joyce is also on lists of tropical cyclone names worldwide.
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