Pancho

For other uses, see Pancho (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Poncho.

Pancho is a male nickname for the given name Francisco (Spanish and Portuguese equivalent of Francis). The feminine form is Pancha. It is also sometimes used as a surname. Notable people with the name include:

## Given name[edit]

* Pancho Barnes (1901–1975), early female American aviator
* Pancho Carter (born 1950), American retired 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 (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 Martin (1925–2012), 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
* José Francisco Ramírez (born 1976), Honduran footballer
* Pancho Segura (1921–2017), Ecuadorian-born American tennis player
* Francisco Varallo (1910–2010), Argentine footballer
* Pancho Villa (1878–1923), Mexican revolutionary
* Pancho Vladigerov (1899–1978), Bulgarian composer, pianist, and pedagogue

## Stage name[edit]

* Michael Locke (stuntman) (born 1979), a stuntman on the Welsh television programme Dirty Sanchez

## Fictional characters[edit]

* Pancho, sidekick of The Cisco Kid
* Pancho, in the Spanish language children's television series Plaza Sésamo
* Pancho, character in the Townes Van Zandt song Pancho and Lefty

## Surname[edit]

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

## See also[edit]

* Panchito, diminutive of Pancho
* Pancha (disambiguation), female given name
* All pages with titles beginning with Pancho
* All pages with titles containing Pancho