Pancho is a male nickname for the given name

Francisco Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''. Nicknames In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father of ...

(Spanish and Portuguese equivalent of

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). The feminine form is Pancha. It is also sometimes used as a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

Pancho Barnes Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes (July 22, 1901 – March 30, 1975) was a pioneer aviator and a founder of the first movie stunt pilots' union. In 1930, she broke Amelia Earhart's air speed record. Barnes raced in the Women's Air Derby and was a ...

(1901–1975), early female American aviator *

Pancho Carter Duane C. Carter Jr. (born June 11, 1950), nicknamed "Pancho", is a retired American race car driver. He is most famous for his participation in CART Indy car races. He won the pole position for the 1985 Indianapolis 500, finished third in the 19 ...

(born 1950), American retired race car driver * Pancho Coimbre (1909–1989), Puerto Rican baseball player * Pancho Córdova (1916–1990), Mexican character actor *

Pancho Daniel Pancho Daniel (?–1858) was a Californio bandit, leader of the Flores Daniel Gang who was lynched in November 1858 while awaiting trial for his involvement in the murder of Los Angeles County Sheriff James R. Barton. Biography Together with J ...

(died 1858), bandit in what is now California * Pancho Fierro (c. 1807/1809–1879), Peruvian painter *

Pancho Gonzales Ricardo Alonso "Pancho" González (May 9, 1928 – July 3, 1995), known sometimes as Richard Gonzales, was an American tennis player. He won 15 major singles titles, including two U.S. National Singles Championships in 1948 and 1949, and 13 P ...

(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 Francisco Villaruel Guilledo (August 1, 1901 – July 14, 1925), more commonly known as Pancho Villa, was a Filipino professional boxer. Villa, who stood only 5 feet and 1 inch (154 cm) tall and never weighed more than 114 poun ...

(1901–1925), Filipino world champion boxer * Pancho Herrera (1934–2005), Major League Baseball player * Franklin Huddle (born 1943), American diplomat *

Pancho Martin Frank "Pancho" Martin (December 3, 1925 – July 18, 2012) was a United States' Hall of Fame trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses. He is often remembered as the trainer of Sham, the horse that placed second to Secretariat in two legs of the ...

(1925–2012), trainer of thoroughbred racehorses * Pancho Prin (1930–2003), Venezuelan musician, singer, and composer *

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

(1927–2006), Hungarian footballer *

Francisco Ramírez (governor) Francisco Ramírez, also known as "Pancho" Ramírez as well as "El Supremo Entrerriano" (1786–1821), was an Argentine governor of Entre Ríos during the Argentine War of Independence. Concepción del Uruguay Francisco Ramírez was born at Con ...

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

Pancho Segura Francisco Olegario Segura (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, but m ...

(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. He represented Argentina at the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930. During his career, Varallo won ...

(1910–2010), Argentine footballer *

Pancho Villa Francisco "Pancho" Villa (, Orozco rebelled in March 1912, both for Madero's continuing failure to enact land reform and because he felt insufficiently rewarded for his role in bringing the new president to power. At the request of Madero's c ...

(1878–1923), Mexican revolutionary *

Pancho Vladigerov Pancho Haralanov Vladigerov (or Wladigeroff, Wladigerow, Vladiguerov, Vladigueroff; bg, Панчо Хараланов Владигеров ; 13 March 18998 September 1978) was a Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist. Vladigerov is arguably ...

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

Stage name

Michael Locke (stuntman) Michael Richard Locke (born 13 March 1979), better known as Pancho, is a Welsh professional stuntman and a member of the '' Dirty Sanchez'' crew. Locke starred in the film ''Dirty Sanchez: The Movie'', released in 2006. He also appeared in the ...

(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 Magaz ...

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

Plaza Sésamo ''Plaza Sésamo'' ( en, Sesame Plaza) is one of the first international co-productions of the first preschool television program ''Sesame Street''. Its first season premiered in México in 1972, and the last season ended in 2018 during the ho ...

'' *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 music singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt. Often considered his "most enduring and well-known song", Van Zandt first recorded it for his 1972 album '' The Late ...

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Cassa Pancho Cassa Pancho's Ballet Black is a British ballet company. It was founded by Cassa Pancho in 2001 as a response to the lack of professional Black and Asian ballet dancers in the UK. The Company was to provide dancers and students of black and Asian ...

, founder of British ballet company Ballet Black *

Pedro Pancho Pedro M. Pancho (born July 2, 1934) is a Filipino politician. He has been elected to five terms as a Member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, representing the 2nd District of Bulacan Bulacan, officially the Province of Bul ...

(born 1934), Filipino politician

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