Pancho

Pancho is a male nickname for the given name Francisco (Spanish and Portuguese equivalent of Francis), as well as a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given Name

• Pancho Barnes (1901-1975), early American aviator
• Pancho Carter (born 1950), retired American race car driver
• Francisco Coimbre (1909-1989), Puerto Rican baseball player
• Pancho Daniel (died 1858), bandit in what is now California
• Pancho Gonzales (1928-1995), tennis player
• Francisco Guilledo (1901-1925), Filipino world champion boxer
• Pancho Herrera (1934-2005), Major League Baseball player
• Franklin Huddle (born 1943), American diplomat
• Frank "Pancho" Martin (born 1925), 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
• Pancho Segura (born 1921), tennis player
• Francisco Varallo (1910-2010), Argentine footballer
• Pancho Villa (1878-1923), Mexican revolutionary
• Pancho Vladigerov (1899-1978), Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist

Surname

• Pedro Pancho (born 1934), Filipino politician

Stagename

• Michael Locke (born 1979), known as Pancho, a stuntman on the Welsh television programme Dirty Sanchez.

Fictional characters

• Pancho, sidekick of the Cisco Kid
• Pancho, in the Spanish language children's television series Plaza Sésamo

See also

• Los Panchos, a Latin pop trio
• Pancho's Mexican Buffet, a restaurant chain
• Pancho Lake, Idaho
• Pancha Carrasco (1826-1890), first woman member of the Costa Rican military

References