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Chase is the act of chasing or pursuing. It is derived from the French chasse, with the additional meaning of hunting (game). This also gave rise to the use of chase for a substantial area in England reserved for hunting, the equivalent of a Royal forest, but belonging to a subject, usually a great nobleman.
It may also refer to:
[edit] Corporations
[edit] Places
In Canada:
[edit] In Britain
[edit] In the United States
- Chase, Alabama
- 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] People
[edit] Surname
- Bill Chase, trumpet player
- Chevy Chase, American comedian, writer, and television and film actor
- Carroll Chase (1878–1960) - renowned philatelist in U.S. and France
- Clifford Chase, American novelist
- David Chase, American television writer, director and producer
- Emory A. Chase (1854–1921), New York judge
- George C. Chase, president of Bates College 1894–1919, English scholar
- Ilka Chase, American actress
- James Hadley Chase, British writer
- J. Mitchell Chase, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
- Jonathan Chase (colonel), Revolutionary War officer
- Lucia Chase, dancer and co-founder of American Ballet Theatre
- 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 and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- Thornton Chase, the first American Baha'i
- William C. Chase, American soldier
- William Merritt Chase, American painter
[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.
[edit] Factual
- Chase Utley (born 1978), baseball second baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies
- Chase Daniel (born 1986), football quarterback for the Washington Redskins
- Chase Coffman (born 1986), football tight end for the Cincinnati Bengals
- Chase Headley (born 1984), baseball outfielder for the San Diego Padres
- Chase Blackburn (born 1983), football linebacker for the New York Giants
[edit] Fictional
- Chase (Transformers)
- 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
- Chase (The Sword of Truth), a character from the book series The Sword of Truth
- Ambrose Chase, a character from the comic book Planetary
- Angela Chase, a character from My So-Called Life played by Claire Danes
- 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
- Brad Chase, a character from the television series Boston Legal
- Agent Cameron Chase, a character from the comic book series Chase
- Chase Edmunds, a character from the television series 24
- Chase Hammond, a major character in the 1999 film Drive Me Crazy
- Chase Matthews, from Zoey 101
- Dr. Chase Meridian, a character from the film Batman Forever
- Chase Stein, a senior member of Marvel comics's Runaways
- Chase Young, an antagonist in Xiaolin Showdown
- Cordelia Chase, a character from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- James Chase, a character from the game Secret Weapons Over Normandy
- Johnny "Drama" Chase, a character from the HBO television series Entourage
- Dr. Robert Chase, a character from the television series House, M.D.
- Vincent Chase, a character from the HBO television series Entourage
- Chase Hammel, a character from the novel Acid House Blues
[edit] Culture
[edit] Transportation
- Chase (land), a geographical term (usually British) designating an area of privately-owned land for hunting
- Chase (algorithm), an algorithm in database construction, to test if a decomposition is lossless
- CHASE (cut holes and sink 'em), American military parlance for scuttling ships
- Chase Field, the home stadium of the Arizona Diamondbacks
- Chase (lighting), an effect in which light sources are lit up sequentially
- CHASE hospice care for children, a charity that supports life limited children in the South East
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