Banks (surname)

Banks is an English surname. Notable people and fictional characters with the surname include:

Sports

 * Adrian Banks (born 1986), American basketball player
 * Alan Banks (rugby league) (born c. 1965), rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 1990s
 * Antonio Banks (American football) (born 1973), defensive back
 * Brad Banks (born 1980), American football player
 * Carl Banks (born 1962), American football player
 * Charlie Banks (rugby league) (born 1922), Scottish-born Australian rugby league player
 * Chip Banks (born 1959), American football player
 * Denis Banks (born 1959), Australian rules footballer
 * Deonte Banks (born 2001), American football player
 * Eric Banks (American football) (born 1998), American football player
 * Ernie Banks (1931–2015), American baseball player
 * Gordon Banks (1937–2019), English football goalkeeper
 * Henry Banks (1914–1994), American racing driver
 * James Banks III (born 1998), American basketball player
 * Jeremy Banks (born 1999), American football player
 * Johnathon Banks (born 1982), American boxer
 * Kenny Banks (1923–1994), English footballer
 * Keshawn Banks (born 1999), American football player
 * M. B. Banks (1883–1970), American football and basketball player and football, basketball and baseball coach
 * Marcus Banks (born 1981), American basketball player
 * Maud Banks (born 1879 – n.d.), American tennis player
 * Maurice Banks (born 1983), American football coach
 * Omari Banks (born 1982), West Indian cricketer
 * Percy Banks (1885–1915), English cricketer
 * Sasha Banks (born 1992), stage/ring name for professional wrestler Mercedes Kaestner-Varnado
 * Sean Banks (born 1985), American basketball player
 * Sevyn Banks (born 1999), American football player
 * Sonny Banks (1940–1965), American boxer
 * Steve Banks (born 1972), English football goalkeeper
 * Tavian Banks (born 1974), American footballer
 * Tom Banks (born 1948), American footballer
 * Tommy Banks (born 1929), English footballer (Bolton Wanderers)
 * Tony Banks (born 1973), American football quarterback
 * Vic Banks (1889–1972), rugby league footballer from New Zealander of the 1910s
 * Willie Banks (born 1956), American track athlete
 * Willie Banks (born 1969), American baseball player
 * Yam Banks (born 2002), American football player
 * Zach Banks (born 1997), American race car driver

Politics

 * Charles Arthur Banks (1885–1961), Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia
 * Dennis Banks (1932–2017), Native American activist and writer
 * Gladys E. Banks (1897–1972), New York politician
 * Gordon Banks (born 1955), British politician
 * Hal C. Banks (1909–1985), Canadian labour leader
 * Jim Banks (born 1979), American Congressman representing Indiana
 * John Banks (born 1946), Mayor of Auckland, New Zealand
 * J. B. Banks (1924–2003), American politician
 * Laurence H. Banks (1897–1972), American politician
 * Nathaniel P. Banks (1816–1894), American politician and Union General during the American Civil War
 * Rosemary Banks (born 1951), 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

Writing

 * Carolyn Banks, American novelist
 * Emma Dunning Banks, American actress, dramatic reader, teacher, and writer
 * Catherine Banks, Canadian playwright
 * Charles Eugene Banks (1852–1932), American writer and newspaper editor
 * Charles L. Banks (1914–1988), United States Marine Corps general
 * Chris Banks (poet), Canadian poet
 * Enoch Marvin Banks (1877–1911), American historian and educator
 * George Linnaeus Banks, British writer
 * Iain Banks (1954–2013), Scottish novelist
 * Isabella Varley Banks, British novelist (married to George Linnaeus Banks)
 * Leanne Banks (born 1959), American novelist
 * Leslie Esdaile Banks (1959–2011), American novelist
 * Mary Ross Banks (1846–1910), American litterateur and author
 * Michael A. Banks, American science fiction writer
 * Russell Banks (1940–2023), American novelist

Music

 * Aidan Banks, bass guitarist
 * Aimee Banks (born 2002), Irish soprano
 * Ant Banks, rapper
 * Azealia Banks, American singer/rapper
 * Bankie Banx (b. Clement Ashley Banks), Anguillan musician
 * Bessie Banks, American soul singer
 * Chico Banks (1962–2008), American Chicago blues guitarist and singer
 * Durk Banks, American rapper and singer known professionally as Lil Durk
 * Erica Banks, American rapper
 * Jillian Banks, American singer, and songwriter known as Banks
 * Larry Banks, American soul singer, songwriter and record producer
 * Lloyd Banks, American rapper
 * L.V. Banks (1932–2011), American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
 * Mike Banks (musician), techno musician
 * Ms Banks, British rapper
 * Nick Banks, British drummer and businessman
 * Paul Banks (American musician), English-American singer and guitarist (Interpol)
 * Paul Banks (English musician), British songwriter and guitarist (Shed Seven, The Rising and Albion)
 * Peter Banks (1947–2013), English guitarist
 * Tony Banks (musician) (born 1950), British songwriter and keyboardist (Genesis)

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
 * Lesley Banks, British artist
 * 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
 * Timothy Banks, American illustrator
 * 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 (1931–2021), American ornithologist
 * Robert Banks (chemist) (1921–1989), American research chemist
 * Sarah Gertrude Banks (1839–1926), American physician and suffragist
 * Tom Banks (physicist) (born 1949), American physicist

Other

 * Aaron Banks (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Charles C. Banks (1893–1971), British World War I flying ace
 * David Banks (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Edward Banks (disambiguation), multiple people
 * George Banks, American convicted murderer
 * Mary MacLeod Banks (1861–1951), folklorist
 * Mateo Banks (1872–1949), Argentine spree killer
 * Sir Maurice Banks (1901–1991), British businessman
 * Mike Banks (mountaineer) (1922–2013), British mountain climber
 * Nathaniel P. Banks, American Civil War Union general
 * Ridgway Banks, American inventor
 * Tom Banks (disambiguation), multiple people
 * 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