Nance (surname)

Nance is a Cornish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Albinus Nance (1848–1911), American 4th governor of Nebraska
• Eric Nance (1960–2005), American murderer
• Greg Nance (born 1988), American entrepreneur, mountaineer, and endurance athlete
• Jack Nance (1943–1996), American actor
• James J. Nance (1900–1984), American industrialist and president of Studebaker Packard Motor Co.
• Jim Nantz (born 1959), American sportscaster for CBS Sports
• Jim Nance (1942–1992), American AFL player
• John J. Nance (born 1946), American pilot, attorney, aviation- and healthcare safety analyst, and author
• Kenneth Nance (1941–2013), American politician
• Larry Nance (born 1959), American former NBA player
• Larry Nance Jr. (born 1993), American son of the above, NBA player
• Lynn Nance (born 1942), American former college basketball coach
• Malcolm Wrightson Nance (born 1961), American author and counter-terrorism intelligence consultant
• J. Milton Nance (1913–1997), American historian and educator at Texas A&M University
• Ray Nance (1913–1976), American jazz trumpeter, violinist, and singer
• Robert Morton Nance (1873–1959), British writer and leading authority on the Cornish language, nautical archaeologist, and joint founder of the Old Cornwall Society
• Sarafina Nance, American science communicator and astrophysicist
• Tommy Nance (born 1991), American MLB pitcher
• Walter Nance (born 1933), American medical geneticist and evolutionary biologist

Middle name

• John Nance Garner (1868–1967), United States Vice President