Joyce

As a given name

Joyce Anderson (1923–2014), American furniture designer and woodworker

Joyce Anderson (artist) (1932–2022), Canadian painter and art teacher

Joyce Ballantyne (1918–2006), American painter of pin-ups

Joyce Dennys (1893–1991), English cartoonist, illustrator and painter

Joyce Wieland (1931–1998), Canadian experimental filmmaker and mixed media artist

Business

Joyce Chen (1917–1994), American chef and restaurateur

Joyce Hall (1891–1982), American businessman and founder of Hallmark Cards

Joyce Kiage, businesswoman from Papua New Guinea

Joyce Nicholson (1919–2011), Australian author and businesswoman

Joyce Smyth (born 1957), English solicitor

Film, television, and theater

Joyce Blair (1932–2006), British actress and dancer

Joyce Brothers (1927–2013), American psychologist, television personality, advice columnist, and writer

Joyce Bulifant (born 1937), American actress

Joyce Carey (1898–1993), British actress

Joyce Chopra (born 1938), American film director

Joyce Coad (1917–1987), American child actress

Joyce Compton (1907–1997), American actress

Joyce DeWitt (born 1949), American actress best known for her role in Three's Company

Joyce Giraud (born 1975), Puerto Rican actress and model

Joyce Godenzi (born 1965), Hong Kong beauty queen and actress of Chinese and Australian descent

Joyce Gordon (1929–2020), American actress and union representative

Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979), British actress, comedian and singer-songwriter

Joyce Hyser (born 1957), American actress

Joyce Jacobs (1922–2013), British character actress

Joyce Jimenez (born 1978), Filipino American actress

Joyce MacKenzie (1925–2021), American actress

Literature and print

Joyce Cary (1888–1957), Irish novelist

Joyce Cavalcante (born 1949), Brazilian novelist

Joyce Brabner (1952–2024), American writer of political comics

Joyce Dyer (born 1947), American scholar and writer

Joyce Elbert (1930–2009), American writer

Joyce Hawkins (died 1992), English lexicographer and dictionary editor

Joyce Jillson (1946–2004), American astrologer, actress, and author

Joyce Johnson (author) (born 1935), American author

Alfred Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918), American poet

Joyce Lussu (1912–1998), Italian writer, translator, and partisan

Joyce Mansour (1928–1986), British-Egyptian surrealist poet

Joyce Maynard (born 1953), American writer

Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938), American novelist

Joyce Carol Thomas (1938–2016), African American playwright, illustrator, and author of children's books

Music

Joyce Auguste, Saint Lucian musician and leader of The Hewanorra Voices

Joyce Blackham (1934–2018), British opera singer

Joyce Cooling, American smooth jazz guitarist

Joyce Cheng, Hong Kong Canadian singer and actress based in Hong Kong

Joyce Chu, Malaysian singer

Joyce DiDonato (born 1969), American opera singer

Joyce Greer de Holesch (1918–2009), Australian concert pianist

Joyce Hatto (1928–2006), British pianist, known for the extensive fraudulent release of other performer's live recordings under her own name

Joyce Kennedy, American singer with the funk rock band Mother's Finest

Joyce Moreno (musician) (born 1948), Brazilian singer-songwriter, formerly known as Joyce

Joyce Paul (1937–2016), American country music singer

Joyce Sims (1959–2022), American singer-songwriter and pianist

Joyce Wright (1922–2020), British opera singer and actress

Joyce Yang (born 1986), Korean pianist

Joyce Zhao Hong Qiao (born 1979), Taiwanese actress and member of music group 7 Flowers

Politics

Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns (born 1947), Conservative member of the House of Lords

Joyce Banda (born 1951), Malawian Member of Parliament

Joyce Baird (1929–2015), British trade unionist

Joyce Beatty (born 1950), American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives

Joyce Butler (1910–1992), British Labour Co-operative politician

Joyce Cusack (born 1942), American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives

Joyce Dees (born 1954), American politician, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives

Joyce Fairbairn (1939–2022), Canadian Senator and first woman Leader of the Government in the Senate

Joyce Gemayel, wife of former President of Lebanon Amin Gemayel and mother of the assassinated politician Pierre Amine Gemayel

Joyce Henry, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives

Joyce Hens Green (born 1928), American district court judge

Joyce Karlin Fahey (born 1951), Venezuela-born American prosecutor, Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, and two-term mayor of Manhattan Beach, California

Joyce L. Kennard (1941–2026), American judge, associate justice of the California Supreme Court

Sports

Joyce Barry (1919–1999), Australian cyclist

Joyce Chepchumba (born 1970), Kenyan long-distance runner

Joyce Edwards (born 2006), American basketball player

Joyce King (1920–2001), Australian sprinter

Joyce Moreno (footballer) (born 1974), Panamanian-Spanish footballer

Joyce Slipp (born 1950), Canadian basketball player and coach

Joyce Walker (born ca. 1961), American basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters) and coach

Joyce Wethered (1901–1997), British golfer

Joyce Ziske (born 1935), American golfer

Other

Joyce Baird (diabetologist) (1929–2014), Scottish diabetes clinician and academic researcher

Joyce Bishop (1896–1993), English educator

Joyce Chiang (1970–1999), Taiwanese-American murdered in Washington, D.C.

Joyce Cowan, New Zealand midwifery educator

Joyce Echaquan (1982/83–2020), Atikamekw woman mistreated by hospital staff

Joyce Gemayel, spouse of former Lebanese President Amine Gemayel

Joyce Giraud (born 1975), Puerto Rican actress, Miss Universe 1998

Joyce Ladner (born 1943), American sociologist and author

Joyce Lambert (1917–2005), British botanist and ecologist

Joyce Marcus, American archaeologist

Joyce Meyer (born 1943), American Christian Evangelical author and speaker

Joyce Ohajah, British journalist and news anchor

Joyce Piliso-Seroke (born 1933), South African educator, activist, and community organizer

Joyce K. Reynolds (1952–2015), American computer science professor

Joyce Robinson (1925–2013), Jamaican public servant

Joyce Rugg Gunn (b. 1914, d. after 1976), British lawyer, court official in Kenya

As a surname

Business

Alan Joyce (born 1966), Irish-Australian Qantas CEO

David Joyce (1825–1904), American lumber baron and industrialist

Morton Dean Joyce (1900–1989), American philatelist

Patrick H. Joyce (1879–1946), American railroad executive

Ron Joyce (1930–2019), Canadian billionaire and co-founder of Tim Horton's donut chain

Film, television, and theatre

Alice Joyce (1890–1955), American actress

Ben Joyce (actor), Welsh actor

Brenda Joyce (actress) (1912–2009), American actress

Elaine Joyce (born 1945), American actress

Ella Joyce (born 1954), American actress

Emily Joyce (born 1969), British actress

Natalie Joyce (1902–1992), American film actress

Peggy Hopkins Joyce (1893–1957), American actress

Yootha Joyce (1927–1980), British actress

Literature and print

Brenda Joyce (author) (born c.1963), American author

Graham Joyce, British science fiction writer

James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish novelist

John A. Joyce (1842–1915), American military officer, poet and writer

Michael Joyce (born 1945), American author and professor of English

Patrick Weston Joyce (1827–1914), Irish author and brother of Robert Dwyer Joyce

Rachel Joyce (born 1962), English novelist and radio playwright

Robert Dwyer Joyce (1830–1883), Irish poet

Stanislaus Joyce (1884–1955), Irish illustrator

William Joyce (writer) (born 1959), American children's author, writer, and illustrator

Music

Archibald Joyce, British composer (1873–1963)

Don Joyce (musician) (1994–2015), member of the experimental music group Negativland

Eileen Joyce (1912–1991), Australian pianist

Mike Joyce (born 1963), British drummer with The Smiths

Teddy Joyce (born Edmund John Cuthbertson; 1904–1941), Canadian swing bandleader and actor

Politics

Barnaby Joyce (born 1967), Australian politician

Brian A. Joyce (1962–2018), Democratic Senator from Massachusetts

Charles Herbert Joyce (1830–1916), U.S. Representative from Vermont

David Joyce (politician) (born 1957), U.S. Representative from Ohio

Eric Joyce (born 1960), British politician and member of Parliament

George Joyce (1618–1670?), agitator in the English Civil War

Janet J. Joyce (1940–2015), Illinois state senator

Jeremiah E. Joyce (born 1943), Illinois state senator

Jerome J. Joyce (1939–2019), Illinois state senator

John Joyce (New Zealand politician) (1839–1899), New Zealand politician

Kevin Joyce (politician), Illinois State Representative

Steven Joyce (born 1963), New Zealand politician

William Joyce (1906–1946), Anglo-Irish Nazi propagandist (known as "Lord Haw-haw")

Religion

Gilbert Cunningham Joyce (1866–1942), educator and Bishop of Monmouth

Isaac Wilson Joyce (1836–1905), American bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church

Jeremiah Joyce (1763–1816), English Unitarian minister and writer

Sports

Alan Joyce (born 1942), Australian Rules footballer

Alexis Joyce (born 1983), American sprinter

Ben Joyce (baseball) (born 2000), American baseball player

Ben Joyce (footballer) (born 1989), English footballer

Bill Joyce (1887–?), Scottish footballer

Bill Joyce (baseball) (1865–1941), American baseball player

Bob Joyce (ice hockey) (born 1966), Canadian ice hockey player

Cecelia Joyce (born 1983), Irish cricketer

Dan Joyce (born 1976), English stunt performer, skateboarder, and filmmaker

Darragh Joyce (born 1997), Australian rules footballer

David Oliver Joyce (born 1987), Irish boxer

Dominick Joyce (born 1981), Irish cricketer

Don Joyce (American football) (1929–2012), American football player

Ed Joyce (born 1978), Irish cricketer

Gus Joyce (born 1974), Irish cricketer

Isobel Joyce (born 1983), Irish cricketer

Jim Joyce (born 1955), Major League Baseball umpire

Joan Joyce (1940–2022), American softball player and coach, among other sports

Other

Dominic Joyce, British mathematician

Ernest Joyce (RNZAF officer) (1920–1944), New Zealand flying ace of the Second World War

Gerald Joyce (born 1956), American scientist

Kenyon A. Joyce, U.S. Army officer during World War II

Kerry Joyce, American interior designer

Lucia Joyce (1907–1982), Irish ballet dancer and daughter of writer James Joyce

Maolra Seoighe (Myles Joyce), Irishman executed by British authorities

Nan Joyce (1940–2018), Irish Travellers' right activist

Philip Michael Joyce (1920–1942), U.S. Navy ensign for whom the U.S. destroyer escort USS Joyce (DE-317) is named

Rosemary Joyce, American anthropologist

Thomas Athol Joyce (1878–1942), British anthropologist

Seoighe Inish Bearachain, Irish rowing champions

Fictional characters

Joyce Barry, character in The Prisoner

Joyce Benson, character in the 1970s comedy Angie

Joyce Byers, character in Stranger Things

Joyce Davenport, character in Hill Street Blues

Joyce Kinney, character in Family Guy

Joyce Summers, character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Gilda Joyce, character in the Gilda Joyce mystery novels