Chance (name)
Chance is an English masculine given name and a surname. The given name is of Middle English origin, meaning "good fortune". There are several variants. The surname is of Old French origin, from cheance, also Middle English cheance. The oldest public record of the surname dates to 1310 in Essex. People with the name Chance include:
Given name
- Chance Adams, American baseball player
- Chance Bateman, Australian rules footballer
- Chance the Rapper, American rapper, born Bennett
- Chance Browne, American cartoonist
- Chance Campbell, American football player
- Chance Carter, Canadian soccer player
- Chance Fry, American soccer player
- Chance Kelly, American actor
- Chance Mock, American football player
- Chance Myers, American soccer player
- Chance Perdomo, English-American actor
- Chance Phelps, United States Marine
- Chance Ruffin, American baseball player
- Chance Sanford, American baseball player
- Chance Sisco, American baseball player
- Chance Thomas, American music composer
- Chance M. Vought, American businessman and aerospace engineer
- Chance Warmack, American football player
- Chance Waters, Australian rapper, songwriter, record producer
Surname
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)
- Chance Buckman, main character in the 1968 film Hellfighters (film), played by John Wayne
In other media
- Jack T. Chance, DC Comics character
- Christopher Chance, another DC Comics character' who uses the alias Human Target
- 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
- Chance Charming, Cinderella's husband in Chris Colfer's ''The Land of Stories''