People
- Given name
- Chauncey Billups, American basketball player
- Chauncey W Crandall, Cardiologist, heart health editor NewsMax, and chief of the transplant cardiology program at the Palm Beach Cardiovascular Clinic
- Chauncey Hosford, Oregon pioneer
- Chauncey Marvin Holt, CIA operative who confessed involvement in the JFK assassination
- Surname
- Danny Chauncey (b. 1956), American rock guitarist
- George Chauncey (b.1953), professor of history at Yale University
- George Chauncey (executive), former owner of the Brooklyn Grooms
- Henry Chauncey (1905–2002), founder of the Educational Testing Service
- Commodore Isaac Chauncey (1779–1840), U.S. Navy officer in the early 19th century
- Mary Kincaid-Chauncey, former Democratic politician from Nevada
- Toby Chauncey (d.1579), William Chauncey (d. 1585) and others - owners of the Manor House at Edgcote, Northamptonshire, England
- Fictional
- Chauncey (Wonder Showzen character), puppet character on the MTV2 series Wonder Showzen
- Chance the Gardener, the main character in the film Being There, whose name is misheard by the movie's characters throughout as Chauncey Gardiner
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“The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“This people must cease to hold slaves, and to make war on Mexico, though it cost them their existence as a people.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
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