Banks (surname)
Banks is an English surname. Notable people and fictional characters with the surname include:
Sports
- Adrian Banks, American basketball player
- Alan Banks (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 1990s
- Antonio Banks (American football), defensive back
- Brad Banks, American football player
- Caleb Banks (American football), American football player
- Carl Banks, American football player
- Charlie Banks (rugby league), Scottish-born Australian rugby league player
- Carrie Banks, American basketball player and coach
- Chip Banks, American football player
- Denis Banks, Australian rules footballer
- Deonte Banks, American football player
- Eric Banks (American football), American football player
- Ernie Banks, American baseball player
- Gordon Banks, English football goalkeeper
- Henry Banks, American racing driver
- Jahmal Banks, American football player
- James Banks III, American basketball player
- Jeremy Banks, American football player
- Johnathon Banks, American boxer
- Kelvin Banks Jr., American football player
- Kenny Banks, English footballer
- Keshawn Banks, American football player
- M. B. Banks, American football and basketball player and football, basketball and baseball coach
- Marcus Banks, American basketball player
- Maud Banks, American tennis player
- Maurice Banks, American football coach
- Omari Banks, West Indian cricketer
- Percy Banks, English cricketer
- Sasha Banks, stage/ring name for professional wrestler Mercedes Kaestner-Varnado
- Sean Banks, American basketball player
- Sevyn Banks, American football player
- Shad Banks Jr., American football player
- Sonny Banks, American boxer
- Steve Banks, English football goalkeeper
- Tavian Banks, American footballer
- 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
- Yam Banks, American football player
- Zach Banks, American race car driver
Politics
- Charles Arthur Banks, Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia
- 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
- Laurence H. Banks, American politician
- Nathaniel P. Banks, American politician and Union General during the American Civil War
- 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
- Emma Dunning Banks, American actress, dramatic reader, teacher, and writer
- Catherine Banks, Canadian playwright
- Charles Eugene Banks, American writer and newspaper editor
- Charles L. Banks, United States Marine Corps general
- Chris Banks (poet), Canadian poet
- Enoch Marvin Banks, American historian and educator
- George Linnaeus Banks, British writer
- Iain Banks, Scottish novelist
- Isabella Varley Banks, British novelist
- Leanne Banks, American novelist
- Leslie Esdaile Banks, American novelist
- Mary Ross Banks, American litterateur and author
- Michael A. Banks, American science fiction writer
- Russell Banks, American novelist
Music
- Aidan Banks, bass guitarist
- Aimee Banks, Irish soprano
- Ant Banks, rapper
- Azealia Banks, American singer/rapper
- Bankie Banx, Anguillan musician
- Bessie Banks, American soul singer
- Chico Banks, 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, American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
- Mike Banks (musician), techno musician
- Ms Banks, British rapper
- Nick Banks, British drummer and businessman
- Paul Banks (American singer), English-American singer and guitarist
- Paul Banks (English musician), British songwriter and guitarist
- Peter Banks, English guitarist
- Tony Banks (musician), British songwriter and keyboardist
Film
- Asha Banks, English actress and singer
- 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 (filmmaker), 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, English sculptor
- Timothy Banks, American illustrator
- Violet Banks, Scottish artist
Science and technology
- Edgar James Banks, American archeologist
- Edward Banks (naturalist), 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
- Kirsten Banks, Australian astrophysicist and science communicator
- Nathan Banks, American entomologist
- Richard C. Banks, American ornithologist
- Robert Banks (chemist), American research chemist
- Sarah Gertrude Banks, American physician and suffragist
- Tom Banks (physicist), American physicist
Other
- Aaron Banks (disambiguation), multiple people
- Charles C. Banks, British World War I flying ace
- David Banks (disambiguation), multiple people
- Edward Banks (disambiguation), multiple people
- George Banks, American convicted murderer
- Heide Banks, psychotherapist, celebrity relationship expert
- Mary MacLeod Banks, folklorist
- Mateo Banks, Argentine spree killer
- Sir Maurice Banks, British businessman
- Mike Banks (mountaineer), British mountain climber
- Nathaniel P. Banks, American Civil War Union general
- Ridgway Banks, American inventor
- Tom Banks (disambiguation), multiple people
- 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 (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