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'''Pancho''' is a male nickname for the given name [[Francisco]] (Spanish and Portuguese equivalent of [[Francis (given name)|Francis]]). The feminine form is [[Pancha (disambiguation)|Pancha]]. It is also sometimes used as a [[surname]]. Notable people with the name include:
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==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]] (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]] (born 1986), Filipino actor
*[[Pancho Martin]] (1925–2012), American 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==
*[[Michael Locke (stuntman)]] (born 1979), 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]]''
*Pancho, character in the [[Townes Van Zandt]] song [[Pancho and Lefty]]

==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

==See also==
*[[Paco]]
*[[Panchito]], diminutive of Pancho
*[[Pancha (disambiguation)]], female given name
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