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 , also Middle English (meaning "fortune", "luck"). The oldest public record of the surname dates to 1310 in Essex. People with the name Chance include:
Given name
- Chance Adams (born 1994), American baseball player
- Chance Bateman (born 1981), Australian rules footballer
- Chance the Rapper (born 1993), American rapper, born Bennett
- Chance Browne (born 1948), American cartoonist
- Chance Campbell (born 1999), American football player
- Chance Carter (born 2001), Canadian soccer player
- Chance Fry (born 1964), American soccer player
- Chance Kelly, American actor
- Chance Mock (born 1981), American football player
- Chance Myers (born 1987), American soccer player
- Chance Perdomo (1996âÂÂ2024), English-American actor
- Chance Phelps (1984âÂÂ2004), United States Marine
- Chance Ruffin (born 1988), American baseball player
- Chance Sanford (born 1972), American baseball player
- Chance Sisco (born 1995), American baseball player
- Chance Thomas, American music composer
- Chance M. Vought (1890âÂÂ1930), American businessman and aerospace engineer
- Chance Warmack (born 1991), American football player
- Chance Waters (born 1987), 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 ' 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 '
- Chance Chancellor, in the soap opera The Young and the Restless
- Chance Charming, Cinderella's husband in Chris Colfer's The Land of Stories
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