Bancroft (surname)

Notable people sharing this surname

• The Bancroft family, previous owners of Dow Jones & Company
• Aaron Bancroft, Colonial American clergyman and Revolutionary War soldier
• Ann Bancroft, American explorer
• Anne Bancroft, American actress
• Billy Bancroft, Welsh international rugby union player and county cricketer
• Cameron Bancroft , Australian cricketer
• Cameron Bancroft , Canadian actor
• Dave Bancroft, American baseball player and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
• Edward Bancroft, American double agent in the American Revolutionary War
• Edward Nathaniel Bancroft, English physician, botanist, and zoologist
• Effie Bancroft, English actress and theatre manager
• Frederick Bancroft, Canadian educator
• George Bancroft, American historian, statesman, and Secretary of the Navy
• George Bancroft , American actor
• Gertrude Bancroft, American economist
• H. Hugh Bancroft, British organist and composer
• Hubert Howe Bancroft, American historian and ethnologist
• Ian Bancroft, Baron Bancroft, British civil servant
• Jack Bancroft, Welsh international rugby union player and county cricketer
• Jessie Hubbell Bancroft, American educator, a pioneer of physical education
• John Bancroft , bishop of Oxford
• John Bancroft , English dramatist
• John Bancroft , British architect
• John Bancroft , American physician
• John Bancroft , British businessman
• Joseph Bancroft, English-born Australian surgeon and parasitologist
• Lincoln Bancroft, American politician
• Mary Bancroft, American novelist and spy
• G. Michael Bancroft, Canadian chemist and synchrotron scientist
• Natalie Bancroft, American businesswoman.
• Ria Bancroft, New Zealand sculptor
• Richard Bancroft, English clergyman and Archbishop of Canterbury
• Ryan Bancroft, American conductor
• Squire Bancroft, English actor and manager
• Stephen H. Bancroft, American theologian and educator
• Thomas Bancroft , a 17th-century English poet.
• Thomas Bancroft , English MP for Castle Rising
• Thomas Bancroft , English Anglican vicar of Bolton-le-Moors
• Tom Bancroft, British jazz drummer and composer
• Wilder Dwight Bancroft, American physical chemist