List of bank robbers and robberies
This is a list of bank robberies, bank robbers and gangs involved in bank robberies.
Australia
;Robbers- Brenden Abbott
- Christopher "Badness" Binse
- Darcy Dugan
- Keith Faure
- Frank Gardiner–Ben Hall gang
- Edward "Ned" Kelly
- Victor Peirce, member of the Pettingill family.
- Gregory David Roberts
- Ronald Ryan
- Andrew George Scott
- Squizzy Taylor
- 1821 - Bank of New South Wales Cashier Francis Williams embezzled £12,000 from Australia's first bank.
- Bank of Australia robbery, 1828, £14,000 in promissory notes and coins.
- 1984 Sydney bank robbery and hostage crisis
Austria
- Johann Kastenberger
Bangladesh
- Bangladesh Bank robbery aka Bangladesh Bank cyber heist 2016. Maia Deguito, a branch manager at a bank in the Philippines is the only person to have been convicted.
Canada
- Edwin Alonzo Boyd
- Ty Conn
- Roger Caron
- Ivan Grose
- John Hamilton
- Paddy Mitchell
- Kevin Pinto
- Monica Proietti
- Stephen Reid
- Norman Ryan
- Jeffrey Shuman
- Garrett Brock Trapnell
- Front de libération du Québec
Denmark
Finland
;Robbers;Robberies
- Bank of France, 1986, Saint-Nazaire, $11.4 million.
- Bank of France, 1992, Toulon, 160 million francs.
- Caisse d'Espargne bank, 1980, Paris, $11.5 million.
- Société Générale S.A, 1976
Georgia
- 1907 Tiflis bank robbery
- Jaba Ioseliani
Germany
- Red Army Faction
- Andreas Baader
- Gladbeck hostage crisis after a DM 300,000 bank robbery by Dieter Degowski and Hans-Jürgen Rösner on August 16, 1988
India
The Chicago Sun-Times reported that "12 to 15 Sikhs dressed as policemen and armed with submachine guns and rifles escaped with nearly $4.5 million in the biggest bank robbery in Indian history." "No one was injured." A Police spokesman described it as "a neat and clean operation".
Khalistan Commando Force members who allegedly participated in the robbery included Harjinder Singh Jinda, Mathra Singh, Paramjit Singh Panjwar, Satnam Singh Bawa, Gurnam Singh Bundala, Sukhdev Singh Sukha, Daljit Singh Bittu, Gursharan Singh Gamma and Pritpal Singh.
Israel
- Ronnie Leibowitz
Japan
;Robberies
- 540 million yen robbery incident in Fukutoku Bank Kobe branch, August 1994.
- 600 million yen robbery incident in Tachikawa, Tokyo, May 2011.
Lebanon
- The British Bank of the Middle East in January 1976 in Beirut, £25 million, the equivalent of £100 million today. This bank robbery was executed by the PLO.
Malta
- HSBC, 2007, 1 million euros.
Netherlands
- Hans Gruyters
Nigeria
- Lawrence Anini
Norway
- Nokas Robbery - The biggest bank robbery in Norwegian history
Pakistan
- ABL Karachi, December 13, 2009, 311 million rupees was looted from the Allied Bank Limited ’s head office.
Poland
- Wołów bank robbery - the largest bank robbery in Polish history.
Republic of Ireland
;Robberies
- Bank of Ireland robbery
Romania
- Ioanid Gang
Russia
- Grigory Kotovsky
Slovenia
In March 2012 two robbers were arrested. One of them was a security guard at the bank. The court process against two robbers started in November 2013. At least one robber is still free.
Serbia
;Robbers- Clark Olofsson
- Jackie Arklöv
- Jan-Erik Olsson
- John Ausonius – The Laser Man killer and convicted bank robber.
- The Norrmalmstorg Robbery
United Kingdom
- Ronald Biggs
- Ronald Christopher "Buster" Edwards
- Brian Arthur Field
- Lee Murray
- Frankie Fraser
- Bruce Richard Reynolds
- Charles Frederick Wilson
- Linwood bank robbery, 1969; two policemen killed.
- Bank of America robbery, 1975, Mayfair; London. £8 million stolen, £500,000 recovered.
- Midland Bank Clearing Centre, 1995, Salford, Greater Manchester, £6.6 million.
- Northern Bank robbery, 2004, Belfast, Northern Ireland; £26 million.
United States
Robbers
- Edward J. Adams
- Aryan Republican Army
- * Michael William Brescia
- John Ashley
- Earl Edwin Austin
- Jorge Ayala
- Harvey Bailey
- Arthur Barker
- Albert Bates
- Clyde Barrow, of Bonnie and Clyde
- Eddie Bentz
- Earl Best
- Naomi Betts
- Tyler Bingham
- George Birdwell
- Black Liberation Army
- Stanley Ray Bond
- Fred William Bowerman
- Christopher John Boyce
- Ford Bradshaw
- Al Brady
- Robert Brady
- Everett Bridgewater
- Joseph Brodak
- Henry Newton Brown
- Harry Brunette
- James J. Bulger
- Edward Bunker
- Fred Burke
- Donald Richard Bussmeyer
- Tommy Carroll
- Butch Cassidy, leader of the Hole in the Wall Gang
- John Paul Chase
- James Clark
- Jim Clark
- Russell Clark
- Archie Clement
- Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe
- Bernard Coy
- Joseph Paul Cretzer, formed the Cretzer-Kyle Gang
- Patrick Critton
- Pat Crowe
- William Daddano Sr.
- Emmett Dalton, principal of the Dalton Gang, 1890s
- Ed Davis
- Lawrence DeVol
- Bennie and Stella Dickson
- The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord
- John Dillinger
- Bill Doolin, 1890s
- Frederick Grant Dunn
- Earl Durand
- Egan's Rats
- Aussie Elliott
- Jeffrey and Jill Erickson
- Gilbert James Everett
- The Flathead gang
- Fleagle Gang
- Joseph Paul Franklin
- Rufus Franklin
- John Franzese
- Ralph Fults
- Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd
- Geezer bandit
- George Jackson Brigade
- Russell Gibson
- Fred Goetz
- Eddie Green
- Carl Gugasian
- Granddad Bandit
- John Hamilton
- Clarence Hill
- Holden-Keating Gang
- Shon Hopwood
- Cora Hubbard
- J.L. Hunter
- Hunt-Gant Gang
- Phillip Hutchinson
- James-Younger Gang, 1866–1881
- Elmer H. Inman
- David Stanley Jacubanis
- Frank James, one of the two James Brothers
- Jesse James, the other member of the James Brothers pair
- Christopher Jeburk
- Charles E. Johnson
- Morris Johnson
- W. D. Jones
- Anthony Michael Juliano
- Alvin Karpis
- Tom Ketchum
- Machine Gun Kelly
- John Allen Kendrick
- Israel Keyes
- Ben Kilpatrick
- Herman Lamm
- Elzy Lay
- George Leonidas Leslie
- Robert Van Lewing
- Loan Ranger Bandit
- Harvey Logan
- Harry Longabaugh, known as "The Sundance Kid"
- James C. Lucas
- David Mack
- Carlos Marcello
- Christopher Magee
- Charles Makley
- Candice Rose Martinez, "The Cell Phone Bandit"
- Emil Matasareanu & Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr., North Hollywood shootout
- William Matix & Michael Platt, 1986 FBI Miami shootout
- Mad Hatter, 2006–2007
- May 19th Communist Organization
- McCanles gang, 1861
- Ben Golden McCollum
- Henry Methvin
- Midwest Bank Robbers, 1990s
- Vernon Miller
- William Miller
- Barry Mills
- Bugs Moran
- Joe "Pegleg" Morgan
- Frank Nash
- Salvatore Naturale
- Jay Wesley Neill
- George "Baby Face" Nelson
- Newton Gang
- Earl Northern
- Albert Frederick Nussbaum
- Joseph "Specs" O'Keefe
- The Order
- *David Lane
- *Robert Jay Matthews
- Bonnie Parker, of Bonnie and Clyde
- Burton Phillips
- Harry Pierpont
- Duane Earl Pope
- Katherine Ann Power
- Phineas Priesthood
- Gerhard Puff
- Reno Gang
- Kenneth "Speedy" Raulerson
- David "Chippy" Robinson
- Leslie Ibsen Rogge robbed a total of $2,000,000
- Verne Sankey
- Frank Sawyer
- Susan Edith Saxe
- John Paul Scott
- Scott "Hollywood" Scurlock
- Mutulu Shakur
- Ted Skeer
- Tommy Silverstein
- Edward Smith
- Luke Elliott Sommer
- Henry Starr
- Steady B
- The Stopwatch Gang
- Willie "The Actor" Sutton
- Symbionese Liberation Army
- *Patty Hearst
- *Donald DeFreeze
- *James Kilgore
- *Emily Harris
- * Sara Jane Olson
- Robert Toye
- Forrest Tucker
- Wilbur Underhill, Jr.
- United Freedom Front
- Homer Van Meter
- Clayton Waagner
- Donald Eugene Webb
- Wheaton Bandit
- Whittemore Gang
- Bobby Randell Wilcoxson
- Johnny Madison Williams Jr.
- John Wojtowicz
- The Wonderland Gang
- Adam Worth
- Jerry Lynn Young
- Cole Younger
Deadly US robberies
- Security Pacific Bank, Norco, California, 1980, deadly shootout between local law enforcement and five bank robbers
- Brink's robbery, Nanuet, New York, 1981, deadly shootout between local law enforcement and 10+ bank robbers populated with members of two revolutionary organizations
- Geronimo bank robbery in Geronimo, Oklahoma, 1984, resulted in the deaths of three bank employees and one customer
- 1986 FBI Miami shootout, deadly shootout between FBI and two bank robbers
- North Hollywood shootout, 1997, deadly shootout between local law enforcement and two bank robbers
- PNC Bank, Erie, Pennsylvania, 2003, robbery by pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells wearing a neck collar bomb
Large value US robberies
- Manhattan Savings Institution, 1878, $2.5 million including $12,000 in cash, with the rest in securities. Masterminded by George Leonidas Leslie and carried out by Jimmy Hope, Samuel Perris and others.
- United California Bank robbery, 1972, $9 million in cash and valuables
- Lincoln National Bank, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1930, $2.7 million in cash and securities.
- Great Brink's Robbery, Boston, Massachusetts, 1950, $2.775 million in cash, checks, money orders, and securities.
- First National Bank of Arizona, Tucson, 1981, $3.3 million in cash.
- Seafirst Bank, Lakewood, Washington, February 1997, $4.46 million in cash.
- 1998 Bank of America robbery, 1998, $1.6 million
Uruguay
- Tupamaros