Chase

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:

Corporations

• JPMorgan Chase, a financial services firm
  • Chase (bank), the consumer and commercial banking division of JPMorgan Chase

Places

Canada

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

Britain

• Cannock Chase, Staffordshire
• Needwood Chase, Staffordshire

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

Barbados

• Chase Vault a burial vault in the cemetery of the Christ Church Parish Church in Oistins, Christ Church

People

Surname

• Bill Chase, trumpet player and leader of the eponymous jazz-rock fusion band Chase
• 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 Supreme Court
• Samuel Chase, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
• Thornton Chase, the first American Baha'i
• William C. Chase, American soldier
• William Merritt Chase, American painter

Given names

Chase

Gender	Male
Language(s)	Anglo-Norman
Origin
Meaning	Hunter or Huntsman
Region of origin	England and British Isles
Other names
Derived	Chasseur

Chase is a given name in the English language, especially in the United States. It is a transferred use of the surname.

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

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

Culture

• Chase (band), a 1970s jazz-rock band headed by Bill Chase
  • Chase (album), their debut album
• Chase (comics), a DC comic book
• Chase (TV series) known as Cha$e
• Chase (1973 TV series), a crime/adventure drama that aired on NBC from 1973 to 1974
• "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
• Chase (film), a Bollywood film

Transportation

• 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
• Chase, a brand of bicycle made by Cannondale Bicycle Corporation

Other

• 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
• Operation CHASE (Cut Holes And Sink 'Em), American military program that involved the disposal of unwanted munitions at sea from May 1964 into the early 1970s
• 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

See also

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