Nancy may refer to:

Places

France

Nancy, France Nancy ; Lorraine Franconian: ''Nanzisch'' is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the northeastern Departments of France, French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. It was the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine, which was Lorraine and Barrois, an ...

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

Arrondissement of Nancy The arrondissement of Nancy is an arrondissement of France in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in the Grand Est region. It has 188 communes. Its population is 419,699 (2016), and its area is . Composition The communes of the arrondissement of ...

, 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 strugg ...

, 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 The Musée de l'École de Nancy is a museum devoted to the École de Nancy, an Art Nouveau movement founded in 1901 by Émile Gallé, Victor Prouvé, Louis Majorelle, Antonin Daum and Eugène Vallin in the city of Nancy in Lorraine, north-eas ...

, a museum *

Nancy-sur-Cluses Nancy-sur-Cluses (, literally ''Nancy on Cluses''; frp, Nanfi) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. In 2018 Nancy-sur-Cluses counted 462 inhabitants. Tourism Romme-sur-Cluses ...

, Haute-Savoie

United States

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

Mount Nancy Mount Nancy, formerly Mount Amorisgelu, is a mountain located in Grafton County, New Hampshire, on the eastern boundary of the Pemigewasset Wilderness of the White Mountains. The mountain is the highest point and namesake of the Nancy Range. ...

, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire *

Nancy, Virginia Nancy is an unincorporated community in Dickenson County, Virginia, in the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North Am ...

People

Nancy (given name) Nancy is a common English language given name for women. The name Nancy was originally a diminutive form of Anne or Ann. It began to be used as a proper name from the 18th century onwards. Similar names include Nan, Nance, Nanette, and Nannie. ...

, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name *

Nancy (singer) Nancy Jewel McDonie (born April 13, 2000), known professionally as Nancy (), is a Korean-American singer, actress, and host. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Momoland, which was formed on November 10, 2016, through the Mnet's rea ...

(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 Nazmun Munira Nancy, commonly known as Nancy, is a Bangladeshi singer. She won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer for her playback in the film '' Projapoti'' (2011). She received Meril-Prothom Alo Awards Best Female S ...

, 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 Ivan Berlyn (1867 – 11 December 1934) was an English actor of stage and silent film whose career spanned four decades. An experienced and versatile actor, Beryln played "... weird and eccentric character parts" in everything from pantomime ...

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 Dod ...

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 Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and later called "Ol' Blue Eyes", Sinatra was one of the most popular entertainers of the 1940s, 1950s, and ...

* 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 Operation Upshot–Knothole was a series of eleven nuclear test shots conducted in 1953 at the Nevada Test Site. It followed ''Operation Ivy'' and preceded ''Operation Castle''. Over 21,000 soldiers took part in the ground exercise Desert Ro ...

series