Vance (surname)
Vance is the surname of:
People
- Clarice Vance (1871–1961), vaudeville performer
- Courtney B. Vance (born 1960), American actor
- Cyrus Vance (1917–2002), US Secretary of State
- Dazzy Vance (1891–1961), Major League Baseball pitcher
- Danitra Vance (1954–1994), cast member on Saturday Night Live
- Foy Vance, Irish musician
- Jack Vance (1916–2013), American fantasy and science fiction writer
- Jim Vance (born 1942), American news anchor
- Joseph Vance (1786–1852), American politician
- Joseph W. Vance (1841–1927), American military officer
- Joseph Williams Vance, Jr. (1918–1942), American submariner in World War II
- John Vance (MP) (died 1875), Member of Parliament for Dublin and Armagh
- Jonathan Vance, Canadian general, current Chief of the Defence Staff
- Leon Vance (1916–1944), US Medal of Honor recipient
- Paul Vance (born 1931), American songwriter
- Robert Smith Vance (1931–1989), federal judge
- Terry Vance (born 1953), Hall of Fame motorcycle racer and co-founder of aftermarket parts business Vance & Hines
- Tommy Vance (1941–2005), British radio broadcaster
- Vivian Vance (1909–1979), American actor best known for playing Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy
- William R. Vance (1806–1885), seventh mayor of Louisville, Kentucky
- William Washington Vance (1849-1900), Louisiana politician
- Zebulon Baird Vance (1830–1894), American politician, Governor of North Carolina, U.S. Senator and Confederate officer
As a pseudonym
- Ethel Vance, pseudonym of Grace Zaring Stone (1891–1981), American author
- William Vance, pseudonym of William van Cutsem (born 1935), Belgian comic book artist
Fictional characters
- Alyx Vance, in the video game Half-Life 2
- Bagger Vance, in the movie Legend of Bagger Vance
- Bob Vance, character from the U.S. version of the British TV series The Office
- Dr. Eli Vance, in the video game Half-Life 2
- Lance Vance and Victor Vance, from the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- Leon Vance, director of NCIS in the television show NCIS
- Mary Vance, orphan from L. M. Montgomery's Rainbow Valley
- Nell Vance, in the movie The Haunting
- Philo Vance, detective in several novels by S. S. Van Dine
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