• Vance, Alabama
• Vance, South Carolina
• Vance County, North Carolina
• Vance Creek, Barron County, Wisconsin

as well as Vancé, one of the communes of the Sarthe département in France

There is also:

• Alyx Vance, fictional character in the video game Half-Life 2
• Clarice Vance (1871 - 1961), vaudeville performer
• Courtney B. Vance (1960 - ), US actor
• Cyrus Vance (1917 - 2002), US politician
• Dazzy Vance (1891 - 1961), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Danitra Vance (1954 - 1994), cast member on Saturday Night Live
• Dr. Eli Vance fictional character in the video game Half-Life 2
• Ethel Vance, pseudonym of Grace Zaring Stone (1891 - 1981), US author
• J. Paul Vance, Sr. (1953- ), Public Information Office (Spokesperson) for Connecticut State Police
• J. Paul Vance, Jr. (1974- ), US politician
• Jack Vance (1916 - ), one pen-name of author John Holbrook Vance
• Joseph Vance (1786 - 1852), US politician
• Lance Vance and Victor Vance, fictional characters from the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City)
• Leon Vance (1916-1944), US Medal of Honor recipient
• Paul Vance (1931 - ), American songwriter
• Vivian Vance (1909 - 1979), US actor, best known as Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy
• William Vance (1935 - ), pseudonym of William van Cutsem, Belgian comic book artist
• William R. Vance (1806-1885), seventh mayor of Louisville, Kentucky
• Zebulon Baird Vance (1830 - 1894), US politician
• Vance Air Force Base, located in Enid, Oklahoma, named after Leon Vance
• Vance D. Brand (1931 - ), NASA astronaut
• Vance Hartke (1919 - 2003), US politician
• Vance Lightning (fictional character), Vance Lightning
• Vance Packard (1914 - 1996), US author
• Vance and Nettie Palmer (Edward "Vance" 1885 - 1959, Nettie 1885 - 1964), Australian writers
• Cyclone Vance, a severe tropical cyclone