Pancho

Pancho is a male nickname for the given name Francisco (Spanish and Portuguese equivalent of Francis). The feminine form is Pancha. It is also sometimes used as a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

 * Pancho Barnes (1901–1975), early female American aviator
 * Pancho Carter (born 1950), American retired race car driver
 * Pancho Coimbre (1909–1989), Puerto Rican baseball player
 * Pancho Córdova (1916–1990), Mexican character actor
 * Pancho Daniel (died 1858), bandit in what is now California
 * Pancho Fierro (c. 1807/1809–1879), Peruvian painter
 * Pancho Gonzales (1928–1995), American tennis player
 * Pancho Gonzales (footballer) (1926–2016), Argentine football player, and manager
 * Pancho Guedes (1925–2015), Portuguese architect, sculptor, and painter
 * Francisco Guilledo (1901–1925), Filipino world champion boxer
 * Pancho Herrera (1934–2005), Major League Baseball player
 * Franklin Huddle (born 1943), American diplomat
 * Pancho Martin (1925–2012), trainer of thoroughbred racehorses
 * Pancho Prin (1930–2003), Venezuelan musician, singer, and composer
 * Ferenc Puskás (1927–2006), Hungarian footballer
 * Francisco Ramírez (governor) (1786–1821), Argentine provincial governor
 * José Francisco Ramírez (born 1976), Honduran footballer
 * Pancho Segura (1921–2017), Ecuadorian-born American tennis player
 * Francisco Varallo (1910–2010), Argentine footballer
 * Pancho Villa (1878–1923), Mexican revolutionary
 * Pancho Vladigerov (1899–1978), Bulgarian composer, pianist, and pedagogue

Stage name

 * Michael Locke (stuntman) (born 1979), 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

Surname

 * Cassa Pancho, founder of British ballet company Ballet Black
 * Pedro Pancho (born 1934), Filipino politician