Nancy may refer to:

Places

France

Nancy, France Nancy ; Lorraine Franconian: ''Nanzisch'' is the prefecture of the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. It was the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine, which was annexed by France under King Louis XV in 1766 and replaced by a pr ...

, a city in the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle and formerly the capital of the duchy of Lorraine ** Arrondissement of Nancy, surrounding and including the city of Nancy **

Roman Catholic Diocese of Nancy The Diocese of Nancy and Toul (Latin: ''Dioecesis Nanceiensis et Tullensis''; French: ''Diocèse de Nancy et de Toul'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France. After a considerable political struggl ...

, surrounding and including the city of Nancy **

École de Nancy École de Nancy, or the Nancy School, was a group of Art Nouveau artisans and designers working in Nancy, France between 1890 and 1914. Major figures included the furniture designer Louis Majorelle, ebonist and glass artist Jacques Grüber, the ...

, the spearhead of the Art Nouveau in France ** Musée de l'École de Nancy, a museum * Nancy-sur-Cluses, Haute-Savoie

United States

Nancy, Kentucky Nancy is an unincorporated community eight miles west of the city of Somerset in Pulaski County, Kentucky. The ZIP Code for Nancy is 42544. On January 19, 1862, during the American Civil War, Union forces achieved their first significant victor ...

* Mount Nancy, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire * Nancy, Virginia

People

* Nancy (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Nancy (singer) (born Nancy Jewel McDonie), member of Momoland *

Jean-Luc Nancy Jean-Luc Nancy ( , ; 26 July 1940 – 23 August 2021) was a French philosopher. Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was ''Le titre de la lettre'' (''The Title of the Letter'', 1992), a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Laca ...

(1940–2021), French philosopher * Nazmun Munira Nancy, Bangladeshi singer

Vessels

* * ''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

Entertainment

* ''Nancy'' (1922), film based on ''

Oliver Twist ''Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress'', Charles Dickens's second novel, was published as a serial from 1837 to 1839, and as a three-volume book in 1838. Born in a workhouse, the orphan Oliver Twist is bound into apprenticeship with ...

'' by

Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian er ...

with Ivan Berlyn as

Fagin Fagin is a fictional character and the secondary antagonist in Charles Dickens's 1838 novel ''Oliver Twist''. In the preface to the novel, he is described as a "receiver of stolen goods". He is the leader of a group of children (the Artful D ...

and

Sybil Thorndike Dame Agnes Sybil Thorndike, Lady Casson (24 October 18829 June 1976) was an English actress whose stage career lasted from 1904 to 1969. Trained in her youth as a concert pianist, Thorndike turned to the stage when a medical problem with her ...

as Nancy * ''Nancy'' (Nancy Sinatra album), 1969 * ''Nancy'' (Nancy Wilson album), 1969 * ''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 * ''Nancy'' (film), a 2018 American film * ''Nancy'' (podcast), a 2017 LGBTQ+ podcast

Other uses

* Nancy, a pejorative term for a effeminate or homosexual man * Nancy, a lightweight web framework inspired by Sinatra * Nancy, an alien character in ''The Transformers'' *

Tropical Storm Nancy (disambiguation) The name Nancy has been used for a total of nineteen tropical cyclones worldwide: fourteen in the Western Pacific Ocean, one in the Southwest Indian Ocean and four in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean. Western Pacific * Tropical Storm Nancy (1945) ...

* Upshot-Knothole Nancy, code name of a 1953 experimental nuclear explosion in the Operation Upshot–Knothole series