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