Pancho is a male nickname for the given name Francisco (Spanish and Portuguese equivalent of Francis). The feminine form is Pancha. It is also sometimes used as a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

Pancho Barnes (1901–1975), early female American aviator

Pancho Carter (born 1950), American retired race car driver

Pancho Coimbre (1909–1989), Puerto Rican baseball player

Pancho Córdova (1916–1990), Mexican character actor

Pancho Daniel (died 1858), bandit in what is now California

Pancho Fierro (c. 1807/1809–1879), Peruvian painter

Pancho Gonzales (1928–1995), American tennis player

Pancho Gonzales (footballer) (1926–2016), Argentine football player, and manager

Pancho Guedes (1925–2015), Portuguese architect, sculptor, and painter

Francisco Guilledo (1901–1925), Filipino world champion boxer

Pancho Herrera (1934–2005), Major League Baseball player

Franklin Huddle (born 1943), American diplomat

Pancho Martin (1925–2012), 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

José Francisco Ramírez (born 1976), Honduran footballer

Pancho Segura (1921–2017), Ecuadorian-born American tennis player

Francisco Varallo (1910–2010), Argentine footballer

Pancho Villa (1878–1923), Mexican revolutionary

Pancho Vladigerov (1899–1978), Bulgarian composer, pianist, and pedagogue

Stage name

Michael Locke (stuntman) (born 1979), a stuntman on the Welsh television programme Dirty Sanchez

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Fictional characters

Pancho, sidekick of The Cisco Kid

Pancho, in the Spanish language children's television series Plaza Sésamo

Pancho, character in the Townes Van Zandt song Pancho and Lefty

Surname

Cassa Pancho, founder of British ballet company Ballet Black

Pedro Pancho (born 1934), Filipino politician

See also

Pancha (disambiguation), female given name

Spanish-language hypocorisms

Masculine hypocorisms

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