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Revision as of 20:53, 9 November 2020
Banks is a surname. Notable people and fictional characters with the surname include:
Sports
- Adrian Banks, American basketball player, 2011-12 top scorer in the Israel Basketball Premier League
- Alan Banks (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 1990s
- Montel Vontavious Porter, American wrestler also known as Antonio Banks
- Antonio Banks (American football), defensive back
- Brad Banks, American football player
- Carl Banks, American football player
- Chip Banks, American football player
- Denis Banks, Australian rules footballer
- Ernie Banks (1931–2015), American baseball player
- Gordon Banks (1937–2019), English football goalkeeper
- Henry Banks, American racing driver
- [[James Banks III (born 1998), American basketball player
- Johnathon Banks (born 1982), American boxer
- Kenny Banks, English footballer
- Maud Banks, American tennis player
- Marcus Banks, American basketball player
- M. B. Banks, American football and basketball player and football, basketball and baseball coach
- Omari Banks, West Indian cricketer
- Percy Banks, English cricketer
- Sasha Banks, stage/ring name for professional wrestler Mercedes Kaestner-Varnado (born January, 1992)
- Sean Banks, American basketball player
- Sonny Banks, American boxer
- Steve Banks (footballer), English football goalkeeper
- Tom Banks (born 1948), American footballer
- Tommy Banks (born 1929), English footballer (Bolton Wanderers)
- Tony Banks (born 1973), American football quarterback
- Vic Banks, rugby league footballer from New Zealander of the 1910s
- Willie Banks (born 1956), American track athlete
- Willie Banks (born 1969), American baseball player
Politics
- Dennis Banks (1932-2017), Native American activist and writer
- Gladys E. Banks (1897–1972), New York politician
- Gordon Banks (politician), British politician
- Hal C. Banks, Canadian labour leader
- Jim Banks (b. 1979), American Congressman representing Indiana
- John Banks (New Zealand politician) (born 1946), Mayor of Auckland, New Zealand
- J. B. Banks, American politician
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks, American politician
- Rosemary Banks, New Zealand's ambassador to France
- Tommy Banks (1936–2018), Canadian musician and politician
- Tony Banks, Baron Stratford (1943–2006), British Labour politician
- Victor Banks (born 1947), Anguillan politician
Arts and entertainment
Writing
- Carolyn Banks, American novelist
- Chris Banks (poet), Canadian poet
- George Linnaeus Banks, British writer
- Iain Banks (1954–2013), Scottish novelist
- Isabella Varley Banks, British novelist (married to George Linnaeus Banks)
- Leslie Esdaile Banks, American novelist
- Michael A. Banks, American science fiction writer
- Russell Banks, American novelist
Music
- Aidan Banks, bass guitarist
- Ant Banks, rapper
- Azealia Banks, American singer/rapper
- Bankie Banx (b. Clement Ashley Banks), Anguillan musician
- Bessie Banks, American soul singer
- Durk Banks, American rapper and singer known professionally as Lil Durk
- Jillian Banks, American singer, songwriter known as Banks
- Larry Banks, American soul singer, songwriter and record producer
- Lloyd Banks, American rapper
- Mike Banks (musician), techno musician
- Ms Banks, UK Rapper
- Nick Banks, British drummer and businessman
- Paul Banks (musician, born 1973), British songwriter and guitarist (Shed Seven, The Rising and Albion)
- Paul Banks (musician, born 1978), English-American singer and guitarist (Interpol)
- Peter Banks (1947–2013), English guitarist
- Tony Banks (musician) (born 1950), British songwriter and musician
Film
- Briana Banks, American pornographic actress
- Elizabeth Banks, American actress
- Jonathan Banks (born 1947), American actor
- Leslie Banks, British actor and director
- Lionel Banks, cinematic art director
- Monty Banks (1887–1950), comedian and film director
- Morwenna Banks, British actress and comedian
- Robert Banks (filmmaker) (Robert C. Banks, Jr.) (born 1966), American filmmaker
- Steven Banks, American comedian, actor and screenwriter
Other
- Darryl Banks, comics artist
- Doug Banks, American radio personality
- Michele Banks, artist
- Nancy Banks-Smith, British television critic
- Robin Banks, radio DJ and TV presenter in the UK
- Thomas Banks (1735–1805), English sculptor
- Violet Banks (1896–1985), Scottish artist
Science and technology
- Edgar James Banks (1866–1945), American archeologist
- Edward Banks (naturalist) (1903–1988), British naturalist and museum curator
- Francis Rodwell Banks (1898–1985) British engineer and fuel specialist
- Harlan Parker Banks (1913-1998), American paleobotanist
- James Arthur Banks (1897–1967), British civil engineer
- Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820), English naturalist
- Karen Banks, computer networking expert
- Nathan Banks (1868–1953) American entomologist
- Richard C. Banks (born 1931), American ornithologist
- Robert Banks (chemist) (1921–1989) American research chemist
Other
- David Banks (disambiguation)
- Edward Banks (disambiguation)
- George Banks, American convicted murderer
- Mary MacLeod Banks (1861–1951), folklorist
- Mike Banks (mountaineer) (1922–2013), British mountain climber
- Nathaniel P. Banks, American Civil War Union general
- Ridgway Banks, American inventor
- Tom Banks (disambiguation)
- Tyra Banks (born 1973), American supermodel
- William Mitchell Banks (1842–1904), Scottish surgeon
Fictional characters
- Adam Banks, in the film The Mighty Ducks
- Inspector Alan Banks, in the crime novels of Peter Robinson
- Charlie Banks (One Life to Live), from the American soap opera One Life to Live
- Clifford Banks, in the TV series Murder One
- Rosie M. Banks, a recurring character in stories by author P. G. Wodehouse
- Alfie Banks, the main protagonist of the graphic adventure game A Golden Wake.
- Tom Banks (EastEnders), from the British soap opera EastEnders
- Jared Banks, from One Life to Live
- Joe Banks, title character of the film Joe Versus the Volcano, played by Tom Hanks
- Natalie Banks, from One Life to Live
- Victoria Lord Banks, fictional character form One Life to Live
- Banks, a family on the television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- The Banks family in Mary Poppins (book series), children's books by P. L. Travers, and the film and musical based upon them