Kenneth Macomb Chance (1879–1969) was an English industrialist and founder of British Industrial Plastics, who served as Sheriff of Warwickshire. Chance was born on 16 July 1879, at Edgbaston, Birmingham (then in Warwickshire), the son of Alexander Macomb Chance and Florence Mercer. Chance's fraternal grandmother was Cornelia de Peyster, whose ancestors were Dutch and Huguenot settlers in British North America and Loyalist to the Crown. He was educated at Bilton Grange School, Warwickshire, Repton School and Trinity College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, he played cricket for Trinity College's Second XI