Pancho is a male nickname for the given name

Francisco Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''. Meaning of the name Francisco In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco (name), Paco". Francis of Assisi, San Francisco de A ...

(Spanish and Portuguese equivalent of

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). The feminine form is Pancha. It is also sometimes used as a

surname In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...

. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

* Pancho Barnes (1901–1975), early female American aviator * Pancho Carter (born 1950), American 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 Amâncio d'Alpoim Miranda "Pancho" Guedes (Lisbon, Portugal, 13 May 1925 – Graaff-Reinet, South Africa, 7 November 2015) was a Portuguese architect, sculptor, painter, and educator. He is described as one of the earliest post-modernist arc ...

(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 Magalona (1922–1998), Filipino actor *

Pancho Magno Pancho Angelo Acuña Magno (born October 2, 1986) is a Filipino actor.Glorioso, Bot (December 15, 2014)"Pancho Magno reveals more about himself" ''philstar.com''. He is the oldest son of Redgie Magno, VP for Drama Productions, GMA Network ...

(born 1986), Filipino actor * Pancho Martin (1925–2012), American trainer of thoroughbred racehorses * Pancho Prin (1930–2003), Venezuelan musician, singer, and composer *

Ferenc Puskás Ferenc Puskás (, ; né Purczeld; 1 April 1927 – 17 November 2006) was a Hungarian footballer and manager, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and the sport's first international superstar. A forward and an attacking ...

(1927–2006), Hungarian footballer * Francisco Ramírez (governor) (1786–1821), Argentine provincial governor * José Francisco Ramírez (born 1976), Honduran footballer *

Pancho Segura Francisco Olegario Segura Cano (June 20, 1921 – November 18, 2017), better known as Pancho "Segoo" Segura, was a leading tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s, both as an amateur and as a professional. He was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, ...

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

Francisco Varallo Francisco Antonio "Pancho" Varallo (; – ) was an Argentine football forward. He played for the Argentina national team from 1930 to 1937, also representing the country at the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930. During his career, Varallo won ...

(1910–2010), Argentine footballer *

Pancho Villa Francisco "Pancho" Villa ( , , ; born José Doroteo Arango Arámbula; 5 June 1878 – 20 July 1923) was a Mexican revolutionary and prominent figure in the Mexican Revolution. He was a key figure in the revolutionary movement that forced ...

(1878–1923), Mexican revolutionary *

Pancho Vladigerov Pancho Haralanov Vladigerov (or Wladigeroff, Wladigerow, Vladiguerov, Vladigueroff; ; 13 March 18998 September 1978) was a Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist. Vladigerov is arguably the most influential Bulgarian composer of all time. He ...

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

Stage name

Michael Locke (stuntman) Michael Richard Locke (born 13 March 1979), better known as Pancho, is a Welsh professional stuntman and skateboarder. He is best known for MTV UK's '' Dirty Sanchez''. Due to his diminutive size, and knowledge of football, Locke is sometimes ...

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

Fictional characters

*Pancho, sidekick of

The Cisco Kid The Cisco Kid is a fictional character found in numerous film, radio, television and comic book series based on the fictional Western character created by O. Henry in his 1907 short story "The Caballero's Way", published in ''Everybody's Maga ...

*Pancho, in the Spanish language children's television series ''

Plaza Sésamo ''Plaza Sésamo'' () is the first Sesame Street international co-productions, international co-production of the Educational television, educational Children's television series, children's television series ''Sesame Street''. Its first season p ...

'' *Pancho, character in the

Townes Van Zandt John Townes Van Zandt (March 7, 1944 – January 1, 1997) was an American singer-songwriter.

song

Pancho and Lefty "Pancho and Lefty", originally "Poncho and Lefty", is a song written by American country singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt. Perhaps his most well-known song, Van Zandt recorded his original version of this song for his 1972 album ''The Late Great ...

Nickname

* Marcelino Massana (1918–1981), Catalan anarchist guerrilla who went by the ''nom de guerre'' of "Pancho"

Surname

* Cassa Pancho, founder of British ballet company Ballet Black * Pedro Pancho (born 1934), Filipino politician

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Surname

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