title: Pleasance
text: # Pleasance
  
  Pleasance may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Pleasance Pendred (1864–1948), British women's rights activist and suffragette
  * Pleasance Smith (1773–1877), English letter writer, literary editor and centenarian
  * Richard Pleasance, Australian rock musician and record producer
  * Simon Pleasance (born 1944), Anglo-French art translator and writer
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * The Pleasance (street), a street just outside the Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland
  * The Pleasance, a theatre, bar, sports and recreation complex on the street
     * Pleasance Theatre Trust, often simply called The Pleasance, a Scottish venue operator and producer of live events
  * Pleasance B.C., a basketball club based in Edinburgh
  * Pleasance Islington, also known as the Pleasance Theatre, a fringe theatre in Islington, London
  