Birks (surname)

Birks is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Anthony Birks (1941–2002), New Zealand Army officer who served as Chief of the General Staff and Chief of Defence Force
 * Ashley Birks (born 1990), British speedway rider
 * Charles Napier Birks (1844–1924), founder of South Australian department store Charles Birks & Co
 * Cliff Birks (1910–1998), English Association football player
 * Douglas Birks (1919–2004), English cricket player
 * Frederick Birks (1894–1917), Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * George Vause Birks (c. 1815–1858), medical doctor, founder of influential family in South Australia
 * Gerald Birks (1894–1991), Canadian fighter ace in World War I
 * Graham Birks (born 1942), English Association football player
 * Henry Birks (1840–1928), Canadian businessman and founder of the Canadian jewelry store, Birks & Mayors
 * Horace Birks (1897–1985), British Army officer who served during both the World Wars
 * Jānis Birks (born 1956), Latvian politician, the Mayor of Riga between 2007 and 2009
 * Jocelynn Birks (born 1993), American volleyball player
 * John B. Birks (1920–1979), British physicist and namesake for the Birks' law
 * Laurie Birks (born 1928, date of death unknown), Australian Olympic boxer
 * Lawrence Birks (1874–1924), Australian electrical engineer in New Zealand
 * Len Birks (1896–1975), English Association football player
 * Malcolm Birks (born 1975), English cricket player
 * Melville Birks (1876–1924), South Australian medical practitioner in Broken Hill, New South Wales
 * Peter Birks (1941–2004), Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford
 * Ray Birks (1930–2008), Australian rugby league player
 * Rosetta Jane Birks (1856–1911), Australian social reformer and philanthropist
 * Thomas Rawson Birks (1810–1883), theologian and controversialist at Oxford
 * Tim Birks, British physicist, 2018 winner of the Rank Prize for Optoelectronics
 * Walter Richard Birks (1886–1960), Australian agricultural scientist and headmaster