Nancy

Nancy may refer to:

Places

France

• Nancy, France, a city in the north-eastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle and formerly the capital of Lorraine
• Arrondissement of Nancy, surrounding and including the city of Nancy
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Nancy, surrounding and including the city of Nancy

United States

• Nancy, Kentucky
• Mount Nancy, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire
• Nancy, Virginia
• Nancy, Washington, unincorporated community in Washington state

People

Surname

• Jean-Luc Nancy (born 1940), French philosopher

Given name

• Nancy (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name

Vessels

• HMS Nancy
• Nancy (1803 ship), a sloop wrecked near Jervis Bay in 1805
• Nancy (1789 ship), a schooner built in Detroit in 1789, best known for playing a part in the Anglo-American War of 1812
• Nancy (1775), an American brig destroyed in the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet

Other uses

• Nancy (comic strip), an American comic strip whose title character debuted in 1933
• Nancy (TV series), an American television comedy about the daughter of a United States President
• An effeminate or homosexual male: see List of LGBT slang terms#Male
• Nancy, a lightweight web framework inspired by Sinatra
• Nancy, an alien character in The Transformers
• Tropical Storm Nancy (disambiguation)
• Nancy (album), a studio album by Nancy Sinatra released in 1969
• The Nancy test shot; code name of a 1953 experimental nuclear explosion in the Operation Upshot-Knothole series

See also

• AS Nancy, French association football club
• SLUC Nancy Basket, a French basketball club
• "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)", a song written by Jimmy Van Heusen and Phil Silvers