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Nancy

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Nancy may refer to:

Places

France
  • Nancy, France, 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, surrounding and including the city of Nancy
    • École de Nancy, the spearhead of the Art Nouveau in France
    • Musée de l'École de Nancy, a museum
  • Nancy-sur-Cluses, Haute-Savoie
United States

People

Surname
  • Jean-Luc Nancy (born 1940), French philosopher
  • Nazmun Munira Nancy, Bangladeshi singer
Given 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

Entertainment

  • Nancy (1922), film based on Oliver Twist by Dickens with Ivan Berlyn as Fagin and Sybil Thorndike 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

Other uses

  • Nancy, a pejorative term for a homosexual or effeminate man, see List of LGBT slang terms
  • Nancy, a lightweight web framework inspired by Sinatra
  • Nancy, an alien character in The Transformers
  • Tropical Storm Nancy (disambiguation)
  • Upshot-Knothole Nancy, code name of a 1953 experimental nuclear explosion in the Operation Upshot–Knothole series

See also

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