Banks (surname)
Banks is a surname. Notable people and fictional characters with the surname include:Sports
- Alan Banks, rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 1990s
- Montel Vontavious Porter, American wrestler also known as Antonio Banks
- Antonio Banks, defensive back
- Brad Banks, American football player
- Carl Banks, American football player
- Chip Banks, American football player
- Denis Banks, Australian rules footballer
- Ernie Banks, American baseball player
- Gordon Banks, English football goalkeeper
- Henry Banks, American racing driver
- Johnathon Banks, 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
- Sean Banks, American basketball player
- Sonny Banks, American boxer
- Steve Banks, English football goalkeeper
- Tom Banks, American footballer
- Tommy Banks, English footballer
- Tony Banks, American football quarterback
- Vic Banks, rugby league footballer from New Zealander of the 1910s
- Willie Banks, American track athlete
- Willie Banks, American baseball player
Politics
- Dennis Banks, Native American activist and writer
- Gladys E. Banks, New York politician
- Gordon Banks, British politician
- Hal C. Banks, Canadian labour leader
- Jim Banks, American Congressman representing Indiana
- John Banks , 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, Canadian musician and politician
- Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, British Labour politician
- Victor Banks, Anguillan politician
Arts and entertainment
Writing
- Carolyn Banks, American novelist
- Chris Banks, Canadian poet
- George Linnaeus Banks, British writer
- Iain Banks, Scottish novelist
- Isabella Varley Banks, British novelist
- 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, 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, techno musician
- Nick Banks, British drummer and businessman
- Paul Banks, British songwriter and guitarist
- Paul Banks, English-American singer and guitarist
- Peter Banks, English guitarist
- Tony Banks , British songwriter and musician
Film
- Briana Banks, American pornographic actress
- Elizabeth Banks, American actress
- Jonathan Banks, American actor
- Leslie Banks, British actor and director
- Lionel Banks, cinematic art director
- Monty Banks, comedian and film director
- Morwenna Banks, British actress and comedian
- Robert Banks , 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, English sculptor
- Violet Banks, Scottish artist
Science and technology
- Edgar James Banks, American archeologist
- Edward Banks , British naturalist and museum curator
- Francis Rodwell Banks British engineer and fuel specialist
- Harlan Parker Banks, American paleobotanist
- James Arthur Banks, British civil engineer
- Sir Joseph Banks, English naturalist
- Karen Banks, computer networking expert
- Nathan Banks American entomologist
- Richard C. Banks, American ornithologist
- Robert Banks American research chemist
Other
- David Banks
- Edward Banks
- George Banks, American convicted murderer
- Mary MacLeod Banks, folklorist
- Mike Banks , British mountain climber
- Nathaniel P. Banks, American Civil War Union general
- Ridgway Banks, American inventor
- Tom Banks
- Tyra Banks, American supermodel
- William Mitchell Banks, Scottish surgeon
Fictional characters
- Adam Banks, in the film The Mighty Ducks
- Inspector Alan Banks, in the crime novels of Peter Robinson
- Charlie Banks, 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, 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, children's books by P. L. Travers, and the film and musical based upon them
