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
- 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
- Johnathon Banks (born 1982), American boxer
- Kenny Banks (1923–1994), English footballer
- Maud Banks (born 1879 – n.d.), American tennis player
- Marcus Banks (born 1981), American basketball player
- M. B. Banks (1883–1970), American football and basketball player and football, basketball and baseball 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
- Zach Banks (born 1997), American race car driver
Politics
- 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
- 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
Arts and entertainment
Writing
- Carolyn Banks, American novelist
- Catherine Banks, Canadian playwright
- 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 (born 1931), American ornithologist
- Robert Banks (chemist) (1921–1989), American research chemist
- Tom Banks (physicist) (born 1949), American physicist
Other
- Aaron Banks (disambiguation), multiple people
- David Banks (disambiguation), multiple people
- Edward Banks (disambiguation), multiple people
- George Banks, American convicted murderer
- Laurence H. Banks (1897–1972), American politician
- 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)
- 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
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