Joy

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• Joy, the emotion of great happiness

People

• Alfred Harrison Joy, (1882–1973) an American astronomer
• Alfred Joy
• 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 Giovanni former WWE Diva

Places

• Joy, Illinois, a village in Illinois, United States

Literature

• Joy (novel), a 1990 novel by Marsha Hunt
• Joy (novels), a series of erotic novels by Joy Laurey
• Joy programming language, a concatenative functional language
• 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

Music

• Joy, a song by Michael Jackson
• Joy to the World, a popular Christmas carol
• Joy (EP), 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, with four solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, inspired on the poem of Schiller
• Joy a song by Against Me! from their album Searching for a Former Clarity

Miscellaneous

• Joy Melbourne, a radio station in Melbourne, Australia
• Joy (crater), a crater on the Moon named after Alfred Harrison Joy
• Joy dishwashing liquid, a brand name of detergent products produced by Procter & Gamble

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