Pancho
Not to be confused with Poncho.
Pancho is a male nickname for the given name Francisco or Francis, as well as a surname. Notable people with the name include:
- Pancho Barnes (1901-1975), early American aviator
- Pancho Carter (born 1950), retired American race car driver
- Francisco Coimbre (1909-1989), Puerto Rican baseball player
- Pancho Daniel (died 1858), bandit in what is now California
- Pancho Gonzales (1928-1995), tennis player
- Francisco Guilledo (1901-1925), Filipino world champion boxer
- Pancho Herrera (1934-2005), Major League Baseball player
- Franklin Huddle (born 1943), American diplomat
- Michael Locke (born 1979), a star of the Welsh television programme Dirty Sanchez
- Frank "Pancho" Martin (born 1925), 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
- Pancho Segura (born 1921), tennis player
- Francisco Varallo (1910-2010), Argentine footballer
- Pancho Villa (1878-1923), Mexican revolutionary
- Pancho Vladigerov (1899-1978), Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist
- Pedro Pancho (born 1934), Filipino politician
Fictional characters:
- Pancho, sidekick of the Cisco Kid
- Pancho, in the Spanish language children's television series Plaza Sésamo
See also
- Los Panchos, a Latin pop trio
- Pancho's Mexican Buffet, a restaurant chain
- Pancho Lake, Idaho
- Pancha Carrasco (1826-1890), first woman member of the Costa Rican military
References
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