Banks (surname)

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

Sports

• 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
• 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, The 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
• 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

• Bank (surname)
• Banksia (disambiguation)