Chase (name)
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Chase is a given name
and surname
in the English language
, especially in the United States
. The given name is a transferred use of the surname.
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 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"...
in the English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, especially in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. The given name is a transferred use of the surname.
People with the given name
- Chase BlackburnChase BlackburnChase Blackburn is an American football linebacker for the New York Giants of the National Football League. He was signed by the Giants as an undrafted free agent in 2005. He played college football for Akron....
(born 1983), football linebacker for the New York Giants - Chase CoffmanChase CoffmanChase Coffman is an American football tight end for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the third round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He played college football at Missouri.-Early years:Coffman played his high school football at...
(born 1986), football tight end for the Cincinnati Bengals - Chase DanielChase DanielWilliam Chase Daniel is an American football quarterback for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League. He was signed by the Washington Redskins as an undrafted free agent in 2009...
(born 1986), football quarterback for the Washington Redskins - Chase HeadleyChase HeadleyChase Jordan Headley is a major league baseball player currently playing for the San Diego Padres. He plays third base, and formerly played left field. He is a switch-hitter...
(born 1984), baseball outfielder for the San Diego Padres - Chase StevensChase StevensChase Stevens is an American professional wrestler. He is known for his work in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling where he was a member of The Naturals alongside his tag team partner Andy Douglas.-Career:...
(born 1979), American professional wrestler - Chase UtleyChase UtleyChase Cameron Utley is a second baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball. A native of the Greater Los Angeles area, he was raised in the city of Long Beach. He was a star baseball player at Long Beach Polytechnic High School, before moving on to UCLA...
(born 1978), baseball second baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies - Chace CrawfordChace CrawfordChristopher Chace Crawford , better known as Chace Crawford, is an American actor. He currently portrays Nate Archibald on the CW television drama Gossip Girl.-Early life:...
(born 1985) , Actor
People with the surname
- Bill ChaseBill ChaseBill Chase was an American trumpet player and leader of the jazz-rock fusion band Chase.-Biography:...
, trumpet player and leader of the eponymous jazz-rock fusion band Chase - Chevy ChaseChevy ChaseCornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase is an American comedian, writer, and television and film actor, born into a prominent entertainment industry family. Chase worked a plethora of odd jobs before moving into comedy acting with National Lampoon...
, American comedian, writer, and television and film actor - Carroll ChaseCarroll ChaseCarroll Chase was an internationally-recognized philatelic expert who specialized in classic stamps of the United States and France. In his effort to study classic French stamps, he traveled to France and remained there until 1941 when he returned to the United States.-Philatelic...
(1878–1960) - renowned philatelist in U.S. and France - Clifford ChaseClifford ChaseClifford Chase is an American novelist who has written Winkie, a novel about a sentient teddy bear accused of terrorism, The Hurry-Up Song: A Memoir of Losing My Brother , and who was the editor of Queer 13: Lesbian And Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade.Chase is currently a Visiting Writer at...
, American novelist - David ChaseDavid ChaseDavid Chase is an American writer, director, and producer of television series. Chase has worked in television for more than 30 years; he has produced and written for shows as The Rockford Files, I'll Fly Away, and Northern Exposure. He has created two original series; the first, Almost Grown,...
, American television writer, director and producer - Emory A. ChaseEmory A. ChaseEmory Albert Chase was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Biography:He was born on August 31, 1854 to Albert Chase and Laura Chase in Hensonville, New York. He attended the public school at Hensonville, and continued his studies at the Fort Edward Collegiate Institute, but did not...
(1854–1921), New York judge - George C. ChaseGeorge C. ChaseGeorge Colby Chase was the second president of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and an English scholar.-Biography:...
, president of Bates College 1894–1919, English scholar - Ilka ChaseIlka ChaseIlka Chase was an American actress and novelist.Born in New York City and educated at convent and boarding schools in the United States, England, and France, she was the only child of Edna Woolman Chase, the editor in chief of Vogue magazine, and her first husband, Francis Dane Chase.Chase made...
, American actress - James Hadley ChaseJames Hadley ChaseJames Hadley Chase is the best-known pseudonym of the British writer Rene Brabazon Raymond who also wrote under the names James L. Docherty, Ambrose Grant, and Raymond Marshall. Chase is one of the best known thriller writers of all time...
, British writer - J. Mitchell Chase, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
- Jonathan Chase (colonel)Jonathan Chase (colonel)Jonathan Chase was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War.Chase was born in Sutton, Massachusetts to Samuel Chase and his wife, Mary Dudley. As a young man, he moved to Cornish, New Hampshire and married Thankful Sherman of Grafton, New Hampshire on November 28, 1759. Together they had three...
, Revolutionary War officer - Lucia ChaseLucia ChaseLucia Chase was an American dancer, actress, ballet director and also the co-founder of the American Ballet Theatre.- Career :...
, dancer and co-founder of American Ballet Theatre - Lucien Bonaparte ChaseLucien Bonaparte ChaseLucien Bonaparte Chase was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Tennessee's 9th congressional district.-Biography:...
, U.S. Congressman from Tennessee - Martha ChaseMartha ChaseMartha Cowles Chase , also known as Martha C. Epstein, was an American geneticist famously known for being a member of the 1952 team which experimentally showed that DNA rather than protein is the genetic material of life. She was greatly respected as a geneticist. Chase was born in 1927 in...
, U.S. biologist, helped prove that genes are made of DNA - Mary Chase, various people; see Mary ChaseMary ChaseMary Chase may refer to:*Mary Chase , American author of fourteen plays, mostly comedies, one of which, Harvey, ran on Broadway for four years and earned her 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Drama...
- Qiana Chase, American model
- Rangi ChaseRangi ChaseRangi Chase is a professional rugby league footballer who currently plays in the Super League competition for the Castleford Tigers. He attended famous Maori school Te Aute College in 1999 before moving to Australia where he attended Keebra Park State High School...
, New Zealand rugby league footballer - Ray P. ChaseRay P. ChaseRay Park Chase was a United States Representative from Minnesota and a Minnesota State Auditor.Chase was born in Anoka County, Minnesota on March 12, 1880. He attended the public schools and graduated from the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1903...
, U.S. Congressman from Minnesota - Reuben ChaseReuben ChaseReuben Chase was an officer in the Continental Navy.Chase joined Ranger as a seaman in 1777 and served during John Paul Jones' daring raid into British waters. Chase was appointed a midshipman in Bonhomme Richard March 18, 1779, and took part in the historic victory over HMS Serapis September 23,...
, officer in the U.S. Continental Navy - Richard ChaseRichard ChaseRichard Trenton Chase was a United States serial killer who killed six people in the span of a month in Sacramento, California...
, U.S. serial murderer - Salmon P. ChaseSalmon P. ChaseSalmon Portland Chase was an American politician and jurist who served as U.S. Senator from Ohio and the 23rd Governor of Ohio; as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln; and as the sixth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.Chase was one of the most prominent members...
, U.S. Treasury Secretary and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court - Samuel ChaseSamuel ChaseSamuel Chase was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and earlier was a signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Maryland. Early in life, Chase was a "firebrand" states-righter and revolutionary...
, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - Stuart ChaseStuart ChaseStuart Chase was an American economist and engineer trained at MIT. His writings covered topics as diverse as general semantics and physical economy. His hybrid background of engineering and economics places him in the same philosophical camp as R. Buckminster Fuller...
, economist, engineer and general semanticist - Thornton ChaseThornton ChaseThornton Chase is commonly recognized as the first convert to the Bahá'í Faith of Occidental background...
, the first American Baha'i - William C. ChaseWilliam C. ChaseMajor General William Curtis Chase was an American soldier and General in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his service in the South West Pacific Area during World War II and in the Occupation of Japan....
, American soldier - William Merritt ChaseWilliam Merritt ChaseWilliam Merritt Chase was an American painter known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons The New School for Design.- Early life and training :He was born in Williamsburg , Indiana, to the family...
, American painter
Fictional characters
- Chase (The Sword of Truth), a character from the book series The Sword of Truth
- Chase (Transformers), a character in the Transformers toyline, comics and cartoon series
- Chase, an IRO-bot in the comic book series The Amory WarsThe Amory WarsThe Amory Wars, originally entitled The Bag.On.Line Adventures, is an ongoing series of comic books written by Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez and published by Evil Ink Comics. The story of The Amory Wars is also the focus of the band's music...
- Chase, a character from Blade: The SeriesBlade: The SeriesBlade: The Series is a 2006 American live-action television program based on the Marvel Comics character and film series. It premiered on Spike on June 28, 2006...
- Chase, a character in the anime series Fighting FoodonsFighting FoodonsFighting Foodons, known as in Japan, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoto Tsushima and serialized in Comic BonBon in September 1997...
- Chase Collins, The Antagonist From The Movie "The Covenant"
- Chase EdmundsChase EdmundsChase Edmunds is a fictional character who was a high-ranking agent in the Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit on Fox's 24...
, a character from the television series 24 - Chase Hammond, a major character in the 1999 film Drive Me CrazyDrive Me Crazy-Tracklisting:# " Crazy " - Britney Spears# "Unforgetful You" - Jars of Clay# "I Want It That Way " - Backstreet Boys# "It's All Been Done" - Barenaked Ladies# "Stranded" - Plumb...
- Chase Matthews, from Zoey 101
- Dr. Chase Meridian, a character from the film Batman ForeverBatman ForeverBatman Forever is a 1995 American superhero film directed by Joel Schumacher and produced by Tim Burton. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is a sequel to Batman Returns , with Val Kilmer replacing Michael Keaton as Batman...
- Chase SteinChase SteinChase Stein , is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics award-winning series, Runaways. He was created by author Brian K. Vaughan & artist Adrian Alphona, and debuted in Runaways vol. 1 #1 with most of the other main characters...
, a senior member of Marvel comics's Runaways - Chase Young, an antagonist in Xiaolin ShowdownXiaolin ShowdownXiaolin Showdown is an American animated television series that aired on Kids WB and was created by Christy Hui. Set in a world where martial arts battles and Eastern magic are commonplace, the series follows four young warriors in training that battle the forces of evil...
- Ambrose Chase, a character from the comic book Planetary
- Angela Chase, a character from My So-Called Life played by Claire Danes
- Annabeth Chase (Close to Home)Annabeth Chase (Close to Home)Annabeth Chase is a fictional prosecutor in the television show Close to Home, portrayed by Jennifer Finnigan. She is seen as a proficient and skilled Prosecutor for Marion County, Indiana, having lost only one case so far. Although she can be unrelenting in the courtroom, she is compassionate, and...
, a character from the television series Close to Home - Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson), a character in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians novel series
- Brad Chase, a character from the television series Boston Legal
- Agent Cameron Chase, a character from the comic book series ChaseChase (comics)Chase was a comic book series published by DC Comics. It was written by Dan Curtis Johnson, illustrated by J.H. Williams III and inked by . It lasted ten issues . The character of Cameron Chase first appeared in Batman #550, January written by Doug Moench and drawn by Kelley Jones...
- Cordelia ChaseCordelia ChaseCordelia Chase is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer; she also appeared on Buffy's spin-off series Angel...
, a character from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer - James Chase, a character from the game Secret Weapons Over NormandySecret Weapons Over NormandySecret Weapons Over Normandy or is a World War II-based arcade flight simulation video game released on November 18, 2003. Published by LucasArts and developed by Totally Games, the game is composed of 15 objective-based missions set in 1940s European, North African, and the Pacific theatres of war...
- Johnny "Drama" Chase, a character from the HBO television series Entourage
- Dr. Robert ChaseRobert ChaseDr. Robert Chase is a fictional character on the Fox medical drama House. He is portrayed by Jesse Spencer. His character was a part of the team of diagnosticians who worked under Gregory House until the end of the third season when House fires him. However, he was then re-hired in season 6...
, a character from the television series House, M.D. - Vincent ChaseVincent ChaseVincent "Vince" Chase is a fictional character on the comedy-drama television series Entourage. He is played by Adrian Grenier.-Personal life:...
, a character from the HBO television series Entourage