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Famous People with Name Joy

Joy as First Name

Joy Lauren     Joy Lauren       Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joy Lauren: an American actress. She played a supporting character, Danielle Van de Kamp, on the hit ABC Comedy-drama Desperate Housewives. She will be attending Columbia University in the fall as a member of the class of 2012.

Joy Paul Guilford     Joy Paul Guilford        Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joy Paul Guilford: was a US psychologist, best remembered for his psychometric study of human intelligence, including the important distinction between convergent and divergent production.Developing the views of L. L. Thurstone, Guilford rejected Charles Spearman's view that intelligence could be characterized in a single numerical parameter and proposed that three dimensions were necessary for accurate description: content, operations, and productions.Promoted to Chief of the Psychological Research Unit at the U.S. Army Air Forces Training Command Headquarters in Fort Worth, Guilford oversaw the "Stanines Project," which identified eight specific intellectual abilities crucial to flying a plane. (Stanines, now a common term in educational psychology, was coined during Guilford's project). Over the course of World War II, Guilford's use of these eight factors in the development of the two-day Classification Test Battery was significant in increasing graduation rates for aircrew trainees

Joy Charity Enriquez     Joy Charity Enriquez       Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joy Charity Enriquez: is an American singer and actress who has appeared on the television series 7th Heaven and also starred in films such as Chasing Papi and Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (voice). Enriquez was also a background singer to the single "When You Belie

Joy Layne     Joy Layne       Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joy Layne: was an American pop singer from Chicago, Illinois, often compared to Sandy Duncan.Layne signed to Mercury Records in 1956 after her mother arranged a meeting with Mercury A&R rep Art Talmadge. Her debut single was a cover of The Poni-Tails' "Your Wild Hea

Joy Lynn Fawcett     Joy Lynn Fawcett       Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joy Lynn Fawcett: is a retired American professional soccer player who earned 239 caps with the United States women's national soccer team (WNT) and was a founding member of the WUSA. Fawcett grew up in southern California where she attended Edison High School in Huntington Beach, California. Her high school team won four league championships. She then attended the University of California, Berkeley where she played on the women's soccer team from 1987 to 1989.

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The arrival of a new baby girl in the family brings with it a deep sense of joy and happiness to one and all. This is specially true for the father because the uniquely enchanting place daughters have for Dads is legendary. Choosing a baby girl name for your newly born miss isn't really as complicated as it seems.

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Joy as Last Name

Ian Joy     Ian Joy       Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ian Joy: is an American soccer player who is currently playing as a defender for the club Real Salt Lake.

Alfred Harrison Joy     Alfred Harrison Joy       Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alfred Harrison Joy: was an astronomer best known for his work on stellar distances, the radial motion of stars, and variable stars.After graduating from Greenville College, Joy went on to work at the American University of Beirut in the Syrian Protestant College as a professor of astronomy and the director of the observatory. He was forced to return to the U.S. in 1915 because of World War I.In the United States, he worked at the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1915 to 1952. There, he and his colleagues ascertained the spectral type, absolute magnitude, and stellar distance of over 5,000 stars. Joy also discovered the T-Tauri type star. He studied the Doppler displacement of the spectral lines of stars to determine their radial velocities deducing a star's absolute dimensions, masses, and the orbital elements of some specific stars. He won the Bruce Medal in 1950.

William Nelson Joy     William Nelson Joy       Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Nelson Joy: is an American computer scientist. Joy co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, Andy Bechtolsheim and Vaughan Pratt, and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003. He now has two children, Haden and Maddie.

Henry L. Joy     Henry L. Joy       Origin/Culture/Country: American

Henry L. Joy: is a Maine politician and retired teacher. He is from Crystal, Maine. He was first elected as a Republican to the Maine House of Representatives in 1992, which was the 116th Legislature, and has served in every consecutive Legislature except for the 120th

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