Chase

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 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 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

Miscellanea

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