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

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