Vance as First Name

Vance Heafner            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Vance Heafner: (born on August 11, 1954) is an American professional golfer

Vance Aaron Law            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Vance Aaron Law: (born October 1, 1956 in Boise, Idaho ) is a former third baseman in Major League Baseball. From 1980 through 1991, he played for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1980-81),

Vance Odell Lovelace            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Vance Odell Lovelace: born August 9, 1963 in Tampa, Florida) was a Major League Baseball pitcher from 1988 to 1990 for the California Angels and Seattle Mariners.

Vance Packard,            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Vance Packard,: was an American journalist, social critic, and author.He was born in Granville Summit, Pennsylvania to parents Philip J. Packard and Mabel Case Packard. Between 1920-32 he attended local public schools in State College, Pennsylvania where his father managed a farm owned by Pennsylvania State University (Penn State). In 1932 he entered Penn State, majoring in English. He graduated in 1936, and worked briefly for the local newspaper, the Centre Daily Times. He earned his master's degree at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1937. That year, he joined the Boston Daily Record as a staff reporter and a year later, he married Virginia Matthews.

Vance Edward Johnson            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Vance Edward Johnson: is a former professional American football player who was selected by the Denver Broncos in the second round of the 1985 NFL Draft. A 5'11", 174 lbs. wide receiver from the University of Arizona, Johnson played his entire NFL career for the Broncos from 1985-1995.

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Vance as Last Name

Robert Howard Vance            Origin/Culture/Country: New Zealand
Robert Howard Vance: Vance was in his twelfth season of first-class cricket and thirty-two years old when finally called up to the New Zealand Test team in the New Zealand summer of 1987-88. That season he scored 638 runs for Wellington at an average of 79.75 and including three centuries. This was followed up the next season with 888 runs at an average of 80.72 including four centuries - a performance which saw him again included in the Test team.

Ellis Eugene Gene Vance            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Ellis Eugene Gene Vance: is an American former professional basketball player for the NBA's Chicago Stags and a former collegiate athlete for the University of Illinois Fighting Illini basketball team. He is most famous for leading Illinois as a member of the famed "Whiz Kids" of the 1940s. He was drafted into the NBA in 1948, and played for the Chicago Stags, the Tri-Cities Blackhawks and the Milwaukee Hawks. He and the other Whiz Kids, Andy Phillip, Art Mathisen, Ken Menke, and Jack Smiley, are regarded as some of Illiois's all-time greats, but only he and Phillip are on the team's all-century team. Vance and his Whiz Kids teammates left basketball to serve in World War II in 1943. Vance was elected to the "Illini All Century Team" in 2004.

John Holbrook Vance            Origin/Culture/Country: American
John Holbrook Vance: is an American fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen. Other pen names include Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse.

Tommy Vance            Origin/Culture/Country: British
Tommy Vance: was a British pop radio broadcaster, born in Eynsham, Oxfordshire. Along with Neal Kay he was one of the few broadcasters in the United Kingdom to champion hard rock and heavy metal in the early 1980s, providing the only national radio forum for both bands and fans. The Friday Rock Show that he hosted gave new bands airtime for their music and fans an opportunity to hear it. His radio show was a factor in the rise of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. He used a personal tag-line of TV on the radio.