Pancho
Pancho is a male nickname for the given name Francisco. The feminine form is Pancha. It is also sometimes used as a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Pancho Barnes, early female American aviator
- Pancho Carter, American race car driver
- Pancho Coimbre, Puerto Rican baseball player
- Pancho Córdova, Mexican character actor
- Pancho Daniel, bandit in what is now California
- Pancho Fierro, Peruvian painter
- Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player
- Pancho Gonzales , Argentine football player, and manager
- Pancho Guedes, Portuguese architect, sculptor, and painter
- Francisco Guilledo, Filipino world champion boxer
- Pancho Herrera, Major League Baseball player
- Franklin Huddle, American diplomat
- Pancho Magalona, Filipino actor
- Pancho Magno, Filipino actor
- Pancho Martin, American trainer of thoroughbred racehorses
- Pancho Prin, Venezuelan musician, singer, and composer
- Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer
- Francisco Ramírez , Argentine provincial governor
- José Francisco Ramírez, Honduran footballer
- Pancho Segura, Ecuadorian-born American tennis player
- Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer
- Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary
- Pancho Vladigerov, Bulgarian composer, pianist, and pedagogue
Stage name
- Michael Locke , a stuntman on the Welsh television programme ''Dirty Sanchez''
Fictional characters
- Pancho, sidekick of The Cisco Kid
- Pancho, in the Spanish language children's television series Plaza Sésamo
- Pancho, character in the Townes Van Zandt song Pancho and Lefty
Nickname
- Marcelino Massana, Catalan anarchist guerrilla who went by the nom de guerre of "Pancho"
Surname
- Cassa Pancho, founder of British ballet company Ballet Black
- Pedro Pancho, Filipino politician