Nancy (given name)
Nancy is a common English language given name for women.
Origins
The name Nancy was originally a diminutive form of Anne or Ann. It began to be used as a proper name from the 18th century onwards.[1] A relatively uncommon variant is Nancye.
People
Nancy may refer to:
- Nancy Ajram, Lebanese singer
- Nazmun Munira Nancy, Bangladeshi singer
- Nancy Alexiadi, Greek singer
- Nancy Allen (actress), American actress
- Nancy Allen (harpist), American harpist
- Nancy Lee Bass, American philanthropist.
- Nancy Benoit, American professional wrestling manager
- Nancy Carell, American comedian and actress, wife of Steve
- Nancy Carrillo, Cuban volleyball player
- Nancy Carroll, American actress
- Nancy Cartwright, American actress
- Nancy Dell'Olio, Italian lawyer
- Nancy Edberg, Swedish 19th-century swimmer
- Nancy Garrido, wife of sex offender and kidnapper Philip Garrido
- Nancy Goldsmith, Israeli Olympic gymnast
- Nancy Grace, American prosecutor & TV personality
- Nancy Greene, Canadian alpine skier
- Nancy Guillén (born 1976), Salvadoran hammer thrower
- Nancy Hayfield, American author, editor, and publisher.
- Nancy Hower, American actress, director, screenwriter and producer
- Nancy Hubbard, American author and professor of business and management
- Nancy Kerrigan (born 1969), American figure skater
- Nancy Leveson American expert in system and software safety.
- Nancy Lieberman (born 1958), American WNBA Hall of Fame basketball player, general manager, and coach, Olympic silver medal
- Nancy Lynn, American entrepreneur, pilot, and public speaker
- Nancy McArthur, American children's author
- Nancy McCredie, Canadian track and field athlete
- Nancy McKeon, American actress
- Nancy McLeón, Cuban track and field athlete
- Nancy Marchand, American actress
- Nancy Marcus, American biologist and college administrator
- Nancy Mowll Mathews (born 1947), Czech-American art historian, curator, and author
- Nancy Metcalf, American volleyball player
- Nancy Mitford, English novelist and biographer
- Nancy Oakes, American chef
- Nancy O'Dell, American television host and entertainment journalist
- Nancy Pelosi, 60th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- Nancy Reagan, former First Lady of the United States
- Nancy Richler, Canadian novelist
- Nancy Sinatra, American singer and actress
- Nancy Spungen, American ex-girlfriend of Sid Vicious and murder victim
- Nancy Vallecilla, Ecuadorian athlete
- Nancy Wilson (jazz singer), American jazz singer
- Nancy Wilson (rock musician), American musician and member of the band Heart
- Nancy Wilson (religious leader), current Moderator of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches
- Nancy Wilson (journalist), Canadian television journalist
- Nancy Wu, Hong Kong actress
- Nancy Yi Fan, Chinese-American author
Fictional people
- Nancy (Oliver Twist), a character from Oliver Twist
- Nancy (comic strip), created by Ernie Bushmiller
- Nancy Adams, a character from the 2016 film The Shallows.
- Nancy Blackett, a character from Swallows and Amazons series of books by Arthur Ransome
- Nancy Botwin, the female lead on the TV series Weeds
- Nancy Callahan, a character from Sin City
- Nancy Drew, the heroine detective of a popular mystery series
- Nancy Gribble, a character from King of the Hill, wife of Dale Gribble
- Nancy Partridge, a character from Sherlock Holmes in Washington
- Nancy Hayton, a regular character in Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks
- Nancy Thompson (A Nightmare on Elm Street), the heroine from two of the A Nightmare on Elm Street films
- Nancy Wilmot, a schoolgirl and later mistress in Elinor Brent-Dyer's Chalet School series
- Nancy, a radio dispatcher who assigns missions on the Chase H.Q. series of video games
- Nancy, one of Blofeld's Angels of Death in the adaptation of Ian Fleming's On Her Majesty's Secret Service
- Nancy Wesley, a character on soap opera Days of our Lives
- Nancy Leathers, a fictional character in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, the grandmother of Ken Barlow and the mother of Ida Barlow
- Nancy Knapp, a fictional character and chapter title in Spoon River Anthology
- Nancy Wheeler, a character from Stranger Things
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