Joy
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Joy refers to:
- joy, the emotion of great happiness, cf. wiktionary:joy.
- "JOY" - a house music event in the UK (Leeds).
- Joy, a concatenative functional language.
- Joy, a 1990 novel by Marsha Hunt.
- Joy, a series of erotic novels by Joy Laurey.
- Joy, a series of movies adapted from the novels by Joy Laurey, starring Claudia Udy, Brigitte Lahaie or Zara Whites.
- Joy, a village in Illinois, United States.
- Joy is a song by Michael Jackson. See List of Michael Jackson songs.
- JOY, a radio station in Melbourne, Australia.
- Joy to the World, a popular Christmas carol.
- Joy, a crater on the Moon is named after Alfred Harrison Joy.
- Joy is a brand name of detergent products produced by Procter & Gamble.
- Joy is the title of a three-song EP by American punk band The Minutemen.
- joy and JOY are a single and album title of Japanese singer YUKI.
- To Joy (An die Freude in German, in English often familiarly called the Ode to Joy rather than To Joy), an ode written in 1785 by the German poet and historian Friedrich Schiller.
- 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.
The following people with the surname Joy have Wikipedia articles (in addition to many people who have this as their first name):
- Alfred Joy
- Bill Joy, a known computer pioneer
- Norman H. Joy, British coleopterist
- Robert Joy
- C. Turner Joy
- Joseph Francis Joy, American inventor and founder of Joy Mining Machinery
There is also the band Joy Division.