Banks (surname)
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
See also
This page lists people with the surname Banks.
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