Chance (name)
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Chance is a masculine
given name
and a surname
. The given name is of Middle English
origin, meaning "good fortune". There are several variants. The surname is Old French
origin from cheance, also Middle English
chea(u)nce (meaning "fortune", "luck", "accident"). The oldest public record of the surname dates to 1310 in Essex
. People with the name Chance include:
Masculine
Masculine or masculinity, normally refer to qualities positively associated with men.Masculine may also refer to:*Masculine , a grammatical gender*Masculine cadence, a final chord occurring on a strong beat in music...
given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
and a surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
. The given name is of Middle English
Middle English
Middle English is the stage in the history of the English language during the High and Late Middle Ages, or roughly during the four centuries between the late 11th and the late 15th century....
origin, meaning "good fortune". There are several variants. The surname is Old French
Old French
Old French was the Romance dialect continuum spoken in territories that span roughly the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium and Switzerland from the 9th century to the 14th century...
origin from cheance, also Middle English
Middle English
Middle English is the stage in the history of the English language during the High and Late Middle Ages, or roughly during the four centuries between the late 11th and the late 15th century....
chea(u)nce (meaning "fortune", "luck", "accident"). The oldest public record of the surname dates to 1310 in Essex
Essex
Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...
. People with the name Chance include:
Given name
- Chance, artist formerly in the MuzikMafiaMuzikMafiaThe MuzikMafia was an informal collection of American country music artists, founded in October 2001 in Nashville, Tennessee by Big Kenny and John Rich , along with Jon Nicholson and Cory Gierman....
- Chance BatemanChance BatemanChance Bateman is an Australian rules footballer who currently plays for Hawthorn in the Australian Football League ....
(born 1981), Australian rules footballer - Chance BrowneChance BrowneRobert "Chance" Browne is an American musician, painter, and cartoonist. He was born in New York City.After his father Dik Browne died in 1989, Browne took over drawing the family comic strip Hi and Lois. The comic is syndicated throughout the United States and stars the characters Hi, Lois, Dot,...
(born 1948), American cartoonist - Chance FryChance FryChance Fry is a retired U.S. soccer forward who began his career straight out of high school with the Seattle Sounders of the North American Soccer League. With the collapse of the NASL, he moved to indoor soccer as well as U.S. minor leagues. Since retiring from playing, Fry has become a college...
(born 1964), American soccer player - Chance MockChance MockChance Mock is a former American football quarterback who played college football for the University of Texas and played professionally for the Austin Wranglers in the Arena Football League...
(born 1981), American football player - Chance MyersChance MyersChance Myers is an American soccer player who currently plays for Sporting Kansas City in Major League Soccer.-College and Amateur:...
(born 1987), American soccer player - Chance PhelpsChance PhelpsChance Russell Phelps was a Private First Class in the United States Marine Corps who served with 2nd Platoon, Battery L, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment , 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, during Operation Iraqi Freedom.Phelps was killed in Iraq as the convoy he was...
(1984–2004), United States Marine - Chance SanfordChance SanfordChance Steven Sanford was a Major League Baseball infielder.Drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 27th round of the 1992 MLB amateur draft, Sanford made his Major League Baseball debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates on April 30, 1998, and appeared in his final major league game on June 9,...
(born 1972), American baseball player - Chance ThomasChance ThomasChance Thomas is a composer and producer of original music for video games. He has worked on titles such as King Kong, X-Men, Lord of the Rings, and Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire. Thomas' projects have won major awards, including the Oscar, Emmy, IGN, and G.A.N.G...
, American music composer - Chance M. VoughtChance M. VoughtChauncey Milton Vought was an American aviation pioneer and engineer. He was the founder of the Lewis and Vought Corporation with Birdseye Lewis. He was born on Long Island, New York. He attended the Pratt Institute, New York University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Vought died from...
(1890–1930), American businessman and aerospace engineer
Surname
- Amy ChanceAmy ChanceAmy Chance was an American child actor born in Hollywood, California. Amy played Aphrodesia, one of the first characters introduced in the cult television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a minor role which she reprised from the original unaired Buffy pilot...
(born 1975), American actress - Bob ChanceBob ChanceRobert Chance is a former professional baseball player who played 6 seasons for the Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, and California Angels of Major League Baseball....
(born 1940), American baseball player - Britton ChanceBritton ChanceBritton Chance was the Eldridge Reeves Johnson University Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics, as well as Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry and Radiological Physics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.At the 1952 Summer Olympics, Chance won a gold medal in...
(1913–2010), American professor and Olympic gold medalist - Dean ChanceDean ChanceWilmer Dean Chance is a former American Major League Baseball pitcher. Over the right hander's 11-year major league career, he would play for the Los Angeles Angels, Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, New York Mets, and Detroit Tigers...
(born 1941), American baseball pitcher - Frank ChanceFrank ChanceFrank Leroy Chance was a Major League Baseball player at the turn of the 20th century. Performing the roles of first baseman and manager, Chance led the Chicago Cubs to four National League championships in the span of five years and earned the nickname "The Peerless Leader".Chance was elected to...
(1877–1924), American baseball player and manager - Fred ChanceFred ChanceFred Chance was active in the field of illustration for over fifty years in Philadelphia and New York. He created covers for Vogue magazine in the early 1930s and was still active in magazine cover work in the late 1980s...
, American illustrator - Greyson ChanceGreyson ChanceGreyson Michael Chance is an American pop rock singer and pianist whose April 2010 performance of Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" at a sixth-grade music festival became a hit on YouTube, gaining over 43 million views. Two of his original compositions, "Stars" and "Broken Hearts", gained over 5 and 7...
(born 1997), American singer - Hugh Chance (1911–1998), American religious person
- James ChanceJames ChanceJames Chance, also known as James White , is an American saxophonist, songwriter and singer....
(born 1953), American new wave musician - Jay ChanceJay ChanceJay Chance grew up in Bermondsey, South London, and was one of the original rock and roll singer/guitarists who played regularly at The 2i's Coffee Bar, in Old Compton Street, Soho, from 1958 to 1960...
(born 1942), British musician - Jean C. ChanceJean C. ChanceJean C. Chance received her JM 1960, MA 1969 from the University of Florida.She has served as a member of the Hearst Awards Committee for 25 of those years, and was also the Chairman as well. In addition Chance has been a faculty member at UF since 1969. It should also be noted that she is a...
, American journalism professor - John Barnes ChanceJohn Barnes ChanceJohn Barnes Chance was a composer, born in Beaumont, Texas. Chance studied composition with Clifton Williams at the University of Texas, Austin, and is best known for his concert band works, which include Variations on a Korean Folk Song, Incantation and Dance, and Blue Lake Overture...
(1932–1972), American composer - Kim ChanceKim ChanceKim Chance is a former Australian Labor Party MP in the Parliament of Western Australia, and was Minister for Agriculture and Food, Forestry, the Mid West and Wheatbelt and Great Southern until the September 2008 WA election...
, Australian politician - Matthew ChanceMatthew ChanceMatthew Chance is a senior international correspondent for CNN based in Moscow. Chance grew up in Stourbridge, England, and previously worked for CNN in their London bureau...
, British television journalist - Michael ChanceMichael ChanceMichael Chance CBE is an English countertenor.Chance was born in Penn, Buckinghamshire, into a musical family. After growing up as a chorister he attended Eton College, Berkshire, and later King's College, Cambridge...
(born 1955), English countertenor - Molly ChanceMolly ChanceMolly Chance is an American television producer and former actress. Molly's producing credits include the world's most popular and longest-running entertainment news program, Entertainment Tonight, as well as its spin-off, ET on MTV...
, American television producer and actress - Noel ChanceNoel ChanceNoel Chance is an Irish racehorse trainer based at Upper Lambourn, Berkshire.He has trained two winners of the Cheltenham Gold Cup with Mr Mulligan in 1997 and Looks Like Trouble in 2000.-References:*...
, British racehorse trainer - Rick ChanceRick ChanceRick Chance was a Tempe, Arizona-based businessman, known throughout the Western United States for founding and advertising Empire Auto Glass, an auto windshield replacement company that dominated the industry by offering free meals at local restaurants. He was known as a generous benefactor,...
, American businessman - Stephen Chance (disambiguation), multiple people
- Dwayne Chance, Doctor from Illinois
- Trevon Chance, Former Model For A&F,Currently in school
Fictional characters
- Jack T. ChanceJack T. ChanceJack T. Chance is a fictional character featured in comic books published by DC Comics. He is a Green Lantern from the world of Garnet—also known as Hellhole. Physically, he is a tall, blue-skinned humanoid. Other distinguishing features include a trademark trench coat, what appear to be brown...
, DC Comics character - Chance the Gardener, aka Chauncey Gardiner, in the novel and film Being There
- Chance, an American Bulldog in the movies Homeward Bound: The Incredible JourneyHomeward Bound: The Incredible JourneyHomeward Bound: The Incredible Journey is a 1993 American remake of the 1963 film The Incredible Journey, which was based on the best-selling novel The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford. Directed by Duwayne Dunham, it was released on February 3, 1993...
and Homeward Bound 2 - Channy, AKA Chance the Man in the movie Chance and Things
- Chance Boudreaux, main character of the film Hard TargetHard TargetHard Target is a 1993 American action film directed by Chinese director John Woo. The film stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Chance Boudreaux, an out-of-work Cajun merchant seaman who saves a young woman, Natasha Binder , from a gang of thugs in New Orleans...
, played by Jean-Claude Van Damme - Richard Chance, United States Secret Service agent with the Treasury Department, main character in 1985 film To Live and Die in L.A.
- Chance "T-Bone" Furlong, a protagonist in the animated series, SWAT Kats: The Radical SquadronSWAT Kats: The Radical SquadronSWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron is an animated series for television created by Christian and Yvon Tremblay and produced by Hanna-Barbera and Turner Program Services. Every episode of the series was directed by Robert Alvarez. The bulk of the series was written by either Glenn Leopold or Lance Falk...