Chance (surname)

Chance is a surname and may refer to:

• Albert Bishop Chance (1873–1949), American businessman and inventor
• Beth Chance (born 1968), American statistician
• Bob Chance (1940–2013), American baseball player
• Bobbie Shaw Chance, American actress
• Britton Chance (1913–2010), American biochemist
• Britton Chance Jr. (1940–2012), American naval architect
• Dean Chance (1941–2015), American baseball pitcher
• Edgar Chance (1881–1955), British industrialist and ornithologist
• Floyd Chance (1925–2005), American session musician
• Frank Chance (1877–1924), American baseball player and manager
• Fred Chance, American illustrator
• Frederick Chance (1852–1932), British politician
• Genie Chance (1927–1998), American journalist, radio broadcaster and Alaska State Senator
• Geoffrey Chance (1893–1987), English cricketer.
• George Chance (footballer) (1896–1952), English footballer
• George Chance (photographer) (1885–1963), New Zealand photographer
• George Quentin Chance (1904–?), Irish radiologist
• Greyson Chance (born 1997), American singer
• Hugh Chance (1911–1998), American religious person
• James Chance (born 1953), American new wave musician
• James Timmins Chance (1814–1902), English industrialist and baronet
• Jane Chance (born 1945), American literary scholar
• Janet Chance (1886–1953), British feminist writer and reformer
• Jean C. Chance (born 1938), American journalism professor
• Jeff Chance (1954–2008), American country music singer
• John Barnes Chance (1932–1972), American composer
• John Richard Newton Chance (1911–1983), English writer as John Lymington
• Karen Chance, American novelist
• Kenneth Chance (1879–1969), English industrialist
• Kim Chance (1946–2017), Australian farmer and politician
• Larry Chance (1940–2023), American musician
• Mark Chance, American chemist
• Matthew Chance (born 1970), British television journalist
• Michael Chance (born 1955), English countertenor
• Miracle Chance (born 1992), English actress, singer and composer
• Molly Chance, American actress and television producer
• Nancy Laird Chance (born 1931), American pianist and composer
• Naomi Chance (1927–2003), English film and television actress
• Noel Chance (born 1951), Irish racehorse trainer
• Olivia Chance (born 1993), New Zealand soccer player
• Patrick Chance (1857–1919), Irish nationalist politician
• Rebecca Chance, pen name of Lauren Milne Henderson (born 1966), English freelance journalist and novelist
• Richie Chance (born 1983), American film and television actor, producer and acting coach
• Robert Lucas Chance (1782–1865), English glass merchant and manufacturer
• Ronnie Chance (born 1968), Georgia State Senator
• Thomas Williams Chance (1872–1954), Welsh Baptist minister
• Toby Chance (born 1960), British-born South African politician

See also

• Chance Brothers, English glass-makers
• Chancey (surname)
• Chace (surname)