Chance (name)

Chance is a masculine given name and a surname. The given name is of Middle English origin, meaning "good fortune". There are several variants.^[1] The surname is of 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.^[2] People with the name Chance include:

Given name

• Chance, artist formerly in the MuzikMafia
• Chance Bateman (born 1981), Australian rules footballer
• Chance Bennett (born 1993), American rapper
• Chance Browne (born 1948), American cartoonist
• Chance Fry (born 1964), American soccer player
• Chance Mock (born 1981), American football player
• Chance Myers (born 1987), American soccer player
• Chance Perdue (born 1986), American Anglican priest, theologian, poet, & musician
• Chance Phelps (1984–2004), United States Marine
• Chance Ruffin (born 1988), American baseball player
• Chance Sanford (born 1972), American baseball player
• Chance Thomas, American music composer
• Chance M. Vought (1890–1930), American businessman and aerospace engineer
• Chance Warmack (born 1991), American football player
• Chance Waters (born 1987) Australian rapper, songwriter, record producer

Surname

• Amy Chance (born 1975), American actress
• Bob Chance (1940–2013), American baseball player
• Britton Chance (1913–2010), American professor and Olympic gold medalist
• Dean Chance (1941-2015), American baseball pitcher
• Edgar Chance (1881–1955), industrialist, ornithologist
• Frank Chance (1877–1924), American baseball player and manager
• Fred Chance, American illustrator
• Greyson Chance (born 1997), American singer
• Hugh Chance (1911–1998), American religious person
• James Chance (born 1953), American new wave musician
• Sir James Timmins Chance (1814–1902), industrialist and baronet
• Jean C. Chance, American journalism professor
• John Barnes Chance (1932–1972), American composer
• Kenneth Chance (1879-1969), industrialist
• Kim Chance, Australian politician
• Matthew Chance, British television journalist
• Michael Chance (born 1955), English countertenor
• Molly Chance, American television producer and actress
• Noel Chance, British racehorse trainer
• Stephen Chance (disambiguation), multiple people

Fictional characters

In film

• Chance the Gardener, aka Chauncey Gardiner, in the novel and film Being There
• Chance, an American Bulldog in the movies Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey and Homeward Bound 2
• Agent Nina Chance, Secret Service agent in the 1997 film Murder at 1600, played by Diane Lane
• Chance Boudreaux, main character of the film Hard Target, 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. (film)
• Chance Wayne, main character from the Tennessee Williams play Sweet Bird of Youth, portrayed by Paul Newman in the 1962 film adaption
• John T. Chance, in the 1959 film Rio Bravo (film)

In other media

• Jack T. Chance, DC Comics character
• Chance "T-Bone" Furlong, a protagonist in the animated series SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
• Chance Chancellor, in the soap opera The Young and the Restless

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