Chance is a given name and a surname. The given name is of Middle English origin, meaning "good fortune". There are several variants. The surname is of Old French origin, from , also Middle English (meaning "fortune", "luck"). The oldest public record of the surname dates to 1310 in Essex. People with the name Chance include:
Given name
Chance Adams (born 1994), American baseball player
Chance Bateman (born 1981), Australian rules footballer
Chance the Rapper (born 1993), American rapper, born Bennett
Chance Browne (born 1948), American cartoonist
Chance Campbell (born 1999), American football player
Chance Carter (born 2001), Canadian soccer player
Chance Fry (born 1964), American soccer player
Chance Mock (born 1981), American football player
Chance Myers (born 1987), American soccer player
Chance Perdomo, American-born English actor
Chance Phelps (1984–2004), United States Marine
Chance Ruffin (born 1988), American baseball player
Chance Sanford (born 1972), American baseball player
Chance Sisco (born 1995), American baseball player
Chance Thomas, American music composer
Chance M. Vought (1890–1930), American businessman and aerospace engineer
Chance Warmack (born 1991), American football player
Chance Waters (born 1987), Australian rapper, songwriter, record producer
Thomas Chance Morris, a/k/a Sodapoppin (born 1994), Twitch-streamer
Surname
Beth Chance (born 1968), American statistician
Bob Chance (1940–2013), American baseball player
Britton Chance (1913–2010), American professor and Olympic gold medalist
David Chance (born 1955) American Hero
Dean Chance (1941-2015), American baseball pitcher
Edgar Chance (1881–1955), industrialist, ornithologist
Frank Chance (1877–1924), American baseball player and manager
Fred Chance, American illustrator
Greyson Chance (born 1997), American singer
Hugh Chance (1911–1998), American religious person
James Chance (born 1953), American new wave musician
Sir James Timmins Chance (1814–1902), industrialist and baronet
Jean C. Chance, American journalism professor
John Barnes Chance (1932–1972), American composer
Kenneth Chance (1879-1969), industrialist
Kim Chance, Australian politician
Matthew Chance, British television journalist
Michael Chance (born 1955), English countertenor
Molly Chance, American television producer and actress
Noel Chance, British racehorse trainer
Stephen Chance (disambiguation), multiple people
The Chance Brothers, English glass-makers
Fictional characters
In film
Chance the Gardener, aka Chauncey Gardiner, in the novel and film Being There
Chance, an American Bulldog in the movies Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey and Homeward Bound 2 Agent Nina Chance, Secret Service agent in the 1997 film Murder at 1600, played by Diane Lane Chance Boudreaux, main character of the film Hard Target, played by Jean-Claude Van Damme Richard Chance, United States Secret Service agent with the Treasury Department, main character in 1985 film To Live and Die in L.A. (film) Chance Wayne, main character from the Tennessee Williams play Sweet Bird of Youth, portrayed by Paul Newman in the 1962 film adaption John T. Chance, in the 1959 film Rio Bravo (film) Chance Buckman, main character in the 1968 film Hellfighters (film), played by John Wayne.
In other media
Jack T. Chance, DC Comics character
Christopher Chance, another DC Comics character' who uses the alias Human Target
Chance "T-Bone" Furlong, a protagonist in the animated series SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron Chance Chancellor, in the soap opera The Young and the Restless