Nance is a Cornish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Albinus Nance (1848–1911), American 4th governor of Nebraska Eric Nance (1960–2005), American murderer Greg Nance (born 1988), American entrepreneur, mountaineer, and endurance athlete Jack Nance (1943–1996), American actor James J. Nance (1900–1984), American industrialist and president of Studebaker Packard Motor Co. Jim Nantz (born 1959), American sportscaster for CBS Sports Jim Nance (1942–1992), American AFL player John J. Nance (born 1946), American pilot, attorney, aviation- and healthcare safety analyst, and author Kenneth Nance (1941–2013), American politician Larry Nance (born 1959), American former NBA player Larry Nance Jr. (born 1993), American son of the above, NBA player Lynn Nance (born 1942), American former college basketball coach Malcolm Wrightson Nance (born 1961), American author and counter-terrorism intelligence consultant J. Milton Nance (1913–1997), American historian and educator at Texas A&M University Ray Nance (1913–1976), American jazz trumpeter, violinist, and singer Robert Morton Nance (1873–1959), British writer and leading authority on the Cornish language, nautical archaeologist, and joint founder of the Old Cornwall Society Sarafina Nance, American science communicator and astrophysicist Tommy Nance (born 1991), American MLB pitcher Walter Nance (born 1933), American medical geneticist and evolutionary biologist
Middle name John Nance Garner (1868–1967), United States Vice President