Vance (surname)
Vance is an English surname.
Vance is the surname of:People
- Alfred Vance, English music hall singer and songwriter
- Clarice Vance, American vaudeville performer
- Colm Vance, Canadian soccer player
- Courtney B. Vance, American actor
- Cyrus Vance, US Secretary of State
- Cyrus Vance Jr., New York County District Attorney
- David Vance , American shipmaster and politician
- David R. Vance, American racehorse trainer
- Dazzy Vance, American baseball pitcher
- Danitra Vance, American comedian and actress
- Foy Vance, Irish musician
- J. D. Vance, American author and venture capitalist
- Jack Vance, American fantasy and science fiction writer
- Jim Vance, American news anchor
- Joseph Vance , American politician
- Joseph W. Vance, American military officer
- Joseph Williams Vance Jr., American submariner in World War II
- John Vance , Member of Parliament for Dublin and Armagh
- Jonathan Vance, Canadian general, current Chief of the Defence Staff
- Leon Vance, US Medal of Honor recipient
- Lesley Vance,, American painter
- Paul Vance, American songwriter
- Robert Smith Vance, federal judge
- Terry Vance, Hall of Fame motorcycle racer and co-founder of aftermarket parts business Vance & Hines
- Tommy Vance, British radio broadcaster
- Vivian Vance, American actor best known for playing Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy
- William R. Vance, seventh mayor of Louisville, Kentucky
- William Washington Vance, Louisiana politician
- Zebulon Baird Vance, American politician, Governor of North Carolina, U.S. Senator and Confederate officer
Pseudonym
- Ethel Vance, pseudonym of Grace Zaring Stone, American author
- William Vance, pseudonym of William van Cutsem, Belgian comic book artist
Fictional characters
- Alyx Vance, in the video game Half-Life 2
- Bagger Vance, in the movie Legend of Bagger Vance
- Brother Vance, A character in the game Destiny and its sequel Destiny 2
- 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
