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Joy to the World (Three Dog Night song)
"Joy to the World" is a Hoyt Axton song recorded by Three Dog Night on the 1970 album Naturally; it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks from April 17, 1971, was Billboard's number one single of 1971, and made the Axtons the only mother-son songwriting pair with US number one hits.
Joy Villa
Joy Villa (Joy Angela Villa), American singer, actress, and conservative activist born 1986 in Orange, California; known for the 2017 MAGA Grammy dress, Billboard 200 hit EP I Make the Static, Trump support, and leaving Scientology after 15 years.
Joy Williams (singer)
Joy Williams, born 1982 in West Branch, Michigan, is an American singer-songwriter, ex-contemporary Christian artist, and four-time Grammy winner as half of the Civil Wars with John Paul White; solo albums Venus (2015) and Front Porch (2019).
Joy Wolfram
Joy Wolfram is a Finnish nanoscientist who leads extracellular vesicle research as Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, co-authoring the MISEV field guidelines and studying EV drug delivery.
Joy Woods
Joy Woods (born 1999) is an American musical theater actress from Chicago, a 2025 Tony nominee as Louise in Gypsy, known for Six, The Notebook, Little Shop of Horrors, and her West End debut as Sally Bowles in Cabaret.
Joy World
Joy World, better known as World Joyland (嬉戏谷), is a 2011 video-game-themed amusement park in Wujin, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China, famous for unlicensed World of Warcraft and Starcraft zones and its B&M flying coaster Sky Scrapper.
Joy-Con
Joy-Con (ジョイコン) are Nintendo's detachable Nintendo Switch controllers, launched March 3, 2017, with motion controls, HD Rumble, IR camera, and NFC; known for stick drift and succeeded by magnetic Joy-Con 2 in 2025.
Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site
Joya de Cerén (Jewel of Cerén), the "Pompeii of the Americas", is a UNESCO World Heritage Maya farming village in La Libertad, El Salvador, buried under 5–7 m of ash by the Loma Caldera eruption around AD 600–650 and discovered in 1976.
JoyAI-Image
JoyAI-Image is an open-source unified multimodal foundation model from JD.com, released in 2026, that performs image understanding, text-to-image generation, and instruction-guided editing in a single system.
Joyanta Basumatary
Joyanta Basumatary, born in 1976, is an Indian politician of the United People's Party Liberal who has represented the Kokrajhar constituency of Assam in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
Joybubbles
Joybubbles, born Josef Carl Engressia Jr. (1949–2007), was a blind American phone phreak who could whistle 2600 Hz tones into phones and make free long-distance calls.
Joyce Beatty
Joyce Beatty, Democratic U.S. Representative for Ohio's 3rd District (Columbus) since 2013; former Ohio House minority leader, Congressional Black Caucus chair, Financial Services Committee member, Kennedy Center renaming lawsuit plaintiff.
Joyce Bischoff
Joyce Bischoff is a vascular biologist and Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School whose lab identified the stem cell that gives rise to infantile hemangioma.
Joyce Brothers
Joyce Brothers (1927-2013), American psychologist who won The $64,000 Question in 1955 as a self-made boxing expert, then pioneered media psychology through TV advice shows, a syndicated column in about 350 newspapers, and ten popular books.
Joyce Bulifant
Joyce Bulifant (born 1937, Newport News, Virginia) is an American actress, Marie Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, a Match Game panelist, Mrs. Davis in Airplane!, and author of My Four Hollywood Husbands.
Joyce C. Hall
Joyce Clyde Hall was an American business founder who built Hallmark Cards of Kansas City, Missouri, the world's largest greeting card company, from a postcard venture begun in 1910.
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938, Lockport, New York), also published as Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelly, is a prolific American novelist, story writer, and essayist; National Book Award 1970 for them, Pulitzer finalist five times, Princeton professor since 1978.
Joyce Cary
Joyce Cary (Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary, 1888–1957), Irish-born British novelist and former Nigerian colonial administrator, author of Mister Johnson, The Horse's Mouth, and two first-person trilogies on art and politics.
Joyce Chang
Joyce Chang is Chair of Global Research for J.P. Morgan's Commercial and Investment Bank, appointed in 2019, with 25 first-place Institutional Investor rankings in emerging markets research.
Joyce Country and Western Lakes UNESCO Global Geopark
Joyce Country and Western Lakes UNESCO Global Geopark, a 1,560 km2 geopark in north Galway and south-west Mayo, Ireland, designated by UNESCO in April 2026; fifth Irish geopark, first with a Gaeltacht, featuring the Iapetus Ocean story and Killary Fjord.
Joyce DeWitt
Joyce DeWitt (born 1949, Wheeling, West Virginia) is the American actress who played Janet Wood on ABC's Three's Company (1977–1984), later a 15-year hiatus and a stage-centered career, with 2026 John Ritter Foundation appearances.
Joyce DiDonato
Joyce DiDonato (born Joyce Flaherty, 1969) is a Kansas-born American mezzo-soprano famed for Handel, Mozart, and Rossini roles. Three Grammy Awards, 2018 Olivier Award, thematic projects In War & Peace and EDEN, over 100 Metropolitan Opera appearances.
Joyce E. Penner
Joyce E. Penner, also known as J. E. Penner, is an American atmospheric scientist at the University of Michigan known for research on aerosol radiative forcing, nuclear winter, and aviation climate effects.
Joyce Giraud
Joyce Giraud, full name Joyce Marie Giraud Mojica, is a Puerto Rican actress, model, and producer who placed 2nd Runner-Up at Miss Universe 1998 and created the reality show Rica Famosa Latina.
Joyce Hyser
Joyce Hyser (Joyce Hyser Robinson), born 1957, New York, is an American actress best known as Terry Griffith in Just One of the Guys (1985), with early roles in This Is Spinal Tap and Staying Alive, later TV guest parts and writing.
Joyce Jameson
Joyce Jameson (Joyce Beverly Kingsley), American actress born September 26, 1927, in Chicago; died January 16, 1987. Broadway star of Billy Barnes revues and films The Apartment, Tales of Terror, and Death Race 2000.
Joyce Kilmer
Joyce Kilmer (Alfred Joyce Kilmer, 1886–1918), American poet and journalist, author of "Trees"; served as a sergeant in the Fighting 69th, killed by a German sniper at the Second Battle of the Marne, awarded the posthumous French Croix de Guerre.
Joyce M. Slingerland
Joyce M. Slingerland, also known as Joyce Slingerland, is a Canadian-trained physician-scientist credited with discovering the cell-cycle inhibitor p27, and has been Professor of Oncology at Georgetown University since 2020.
Joyce Marcus
Joyce Marcus is an American archaeologist at the University of Michigan who studies the Maya, Zapotec, and Andean civilizations and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1997.
Joyce Mason
Joyce Mason is an American Democratic politician serving in the Illinois House of Representatives from the 61st district since 2019, after serving on the Woodland school board in Gurnee.