Chase

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Chase may refer to:

Contents 1 Places 2 Things 3 People 3.1 Family names 3.2 Given names 3.3 Fictional 4 See also

[edit] Places

In Canada:

• Chase, British Columbia, small village located in the interior of British Columbia, Canada

In the United Kingdom:

• Cannock Chase, Staffordshire

In the United States:

• Chase, Alaska
• Chase, Indiana, a virtually extinct town in Benton County, Indiana
• Chase, Kansas
• Chase, Maryland, a community in eastern Baltimore County, Maryland
• Chase, Wisconsin
• Chase City, Virginia
• Chase Township, Michigan

[edit] Things

• Chase (land), a geographical term (usually British) designating an area of privately-owned land for hunting, for example Cannock Chase
• Chase (algorithm), an algorithm in database construction, to test if a decomposition is lossless
• Chase (band), a 1970s jazz-rock band headed by Bill Chase
  • Chase (album), their debut album
• Chase (Faroese band), a 1980s and 90s rock band
  • Chase (album), the Faroese band's Chase' first album
• Chase (comics), a DC comic book
• Chase (TV series)
• "Chase" (song), a 1977 dance hit by Giorgio Moroder from the soundtrack and album Midnight Express
• "The Ballad of Chevy Chase", the title of at least two English folk songs
• USS Chase (DD-323), Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy
• USS Chase (DE-158), Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy
• USCGC Chase (WHEC-718), Hamilton-class high-endurance cutter of the United States Coast Guard
• Chase Aircraft
• JPMorgan Chase
  • Chase Manhattan Bank, which acquired JPMorgan in 2000
• Chase, a brand of bicycle made by Cannondale Bicycle Corporation
• CHASE (cut holes and sink 'em), Pentagon parlance for scuttling ships

[edit] People

[edit] Family names

• Bill Chase, trumpet player
• Chevy Chase, American comedian, writer, and television and film actor
• David Chase, American television writer, director and producer
• George C. Chase, President of Bates College 1894-1919, English scholar
• James Hadley Chase, British writer
• J. Mitchell Chase, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
• Jonathan Chase (colonel), Revolutionary War officer
• Lucien Bonaparte Chase, U.S. Congressman from Tennessee
• Martha Chase, U.S. biologist, helped prove that genes are made of DNA
• Qiana Chase, American model
• Ray P. Chase, U.S. Congressman from Minnesota
• Reuben Chase, officer in the U.S. Continental Navy
• Salmon P. Chase, U.S. Treasury Secretary and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• Samuel Chase, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence
• Thornton Chase, the first American Baha'i

[edit] Given names

Chase is a given name in the English language, especially in the United States. It is a transferred use of the surname. It originated from the French term for "hunter", chasseur. In the Middle Ages it was used as a nickname for a huntsman by the Anglo-Norman people.

[edit] Fictional

• Chase Matthews, from Zoey 101
• Chase, an IRO-bot in the comic book series The Amory Wars
• Chase, a character from Blade: The Series
• Chase, a character in the anime series Fighting Foodons
• Ambrose Chase, a character from the comic book Planetary
• Annabeth (Percy Jackson), a character in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & The Olympians book series
• Annabeth Chase (Close to Home), a character from the television series Close to Home
• Agent Cameron Chase, from Chase (comics)
• Cordelia Chase, a character from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• James Chase, a character from the game Secret Weapons Over Normandy
• Dr. Robert Chase, a character from the television series House, M.D.
• Vincent Chase, a character from the HBO television series Entourage
• Chase Edmunds, a character from the television series 24
• Chase Hammond, a major character in the 1999 film Drive Me Crazy
• Chase Stein, a senior member of Marvel comics's Runaways
• Chase Young, an antagonist in Xiaolin Showdown
• Johnny Chase, a.k.a 'Drama', brother of Vincent Chase in T.V series Entourage
• P.chase- a pro snowbaorder
• Chase , guitarist

• Dr. Chase Meridian from Batman Forever

[edit] See also

• Car chase
• The Chase
• Cut to the chase
• Chace
• Repoussé and chasing