Joye is a name primarily used as a surname, but also as a given name. Notable people with the name include:

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Joye Hummel Joye Evelyn Hummel (April 4, 1924April 5, 2021) was an American comic book author. She is noted for ghost-writing more than 70 "Wonder Woman" stories between 1944 and 1947. Hummel was 19 years old when she began as a typist for the comic. She ...

(1924–2021), American comics writer * Joye Estazie (born 1984), Mauritian footballer *

Soara-Joye Ross Soara-Joye Ross, previously known as Joy Ross, Joye Ross, Joy E. T. Ross, and also known as Soara-Joyce Ross (because of her name being misspelled) is an American actress and singer. Career Ross' Broadway acting credits include ''Les Misérables ...

, American actress and singer

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Gilles Joye Gilles Joye (1424 or 1425 – 31 December 1483) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. A member of the Burgundian school, he was known mainly for his secular songs which were in a lyrical and graceful style. Life He may have come fr ...

(1424 or 1425–1483), Franco-Flemish composer *

George Joye George Joye (also Joy and ) (c. 1495 – 1553) was a 16th-century Bible translator who produced the first printed translation of several books of the Old Testament into English (1530–1534), as well as the first English Primer (1529). His life ...

(c. 1495 – 1553), English Bible translator *

John Joye John Joye or Joyce was an member of the Parliament of England for Lincoln Lincoln most commonly refers to: * Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of the United States * Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Linc ...

(fl. 1584), English politician *

Prudent Joye Prudent Joye (15 December 1913 – 1 November 1980) was a French track and field athlete who specialised in the 400 metres hurdles. He competed for France at the 1936 Summer Olympics and won gold at the 1938 European Athletics Championship ...

(1913–1980), French athlete *

Col Joye Colin Frederick Jacobsen (born 13 April 1937), better known by his stage name Col Joye, is an Australian pioneer rock singer-songwriter, musician and entrepreneur with a career spanning some sixty years. Joye was the first Australian rock and r ...

(born 1937), Australian rock musician *

Samantha Joye Samantha "Mandy" Joye is an American oceanographer who is well known for her work studying the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. She is a professor (Athletic Association Professor in Arts and Sciences) at the University of Georgia in the Department o ...

(born 1965), American oceanographer * Dan Joye (born 1985), Venezuelan-American luger * Cpt. Prentice Edmond Joye Jr. (born 1946), United States Army Captain

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