Banks (surname)

Sports

Montel Vontavious Porter, American wrestler also known as Antonio Banks

Antonio Banks (American football), defensive back

Brad Banks, American football player

Carl Banks, American football player

Chip Banks, American football player

Denis Banks, Australian rules footballer

Ernie Banks (1931–2015), American baseball player

Gordon Banks (born 1937), English football goalkeeper

Henry Banks, American racing driver

Johnathon Banks (born 1982), 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

Sean Banks, American basketball player

Sonny Banks, American boxer

Steve Banks, English football goalkeeper

Tom Banks (born 1948), American footballer

Tommy Banks (born 1929), English footballer (Bolton Wanderers)

Tony Banks (born 1973), American football quarterback

Vic Banks, rugby league footballer of the 1910s for New Zealand and Hawke's Bay

Willie Banks (born 1956), American track athlete

Willie Banks (born 1969), American baseball player

Politics

Dennis Banks (born 1932), Native American activist and writer

Gladys E. Banks (1897–1972), New York politician

Gordon Banks (politician), British politician

Hal C. Banks, Canadian labour leader

John Banks (New Zealand politician) (born 1946), Mayor of Auckland, New Zealand

Nathaniel Prentice Banks, American politician

Rosemary Banks, New Zealand's ambassador to France

Tommy Banks (born 1936), Canadian musician and politician

Tony Banks, Baron Stratford (1943–2006), British Labour politician

Writing

Carolyn Banks, American novelist

Chris Banks (poet), Canadian poet

George Linnaeus Banks, British writer

Iain Banks (1954–2013), Scottish novelist

Isabella Varley Banks, British novelist (married to George Linnaeus Banks)

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 (b. Clement Ashley Banks), 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 (musician), techno musician

Nick Banks, British drummer and businessman

Paul Banks (musician, born 1973), British songwriter and guitarist (Shed Seven, The Rising and Albion)

Paul Banks (musician, born 1978), English-American singer and guitarist (Interpol)

Peter Banks (1947–2013), English guitarist

Tony Banks (musician) (born 1950), British songwriter and musician

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

Nancy Banks-Smith, British television critic

Robin Banks, radio DJ and TV presenter in the UK

Thomas Banks (1735–1805), English sculptor

Science and technology

Edgar James Banks (1866–1945), American archeologist

Edward Banks (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

Nathan Banks (1868–1953) American entomologist

Robert Banks (chemist) (1921–1989) American research chemist

Other

David Banks (disambiguation)

Edward Banks (disambiguation)

George Banks, American convicted murderer

Mary MacLeod Banks (1861–1951), folklorist

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

a family of Hobbits in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien

The Banks family in the Mary Poppins series of children's books by P. L. Travers, and the film and musical based upon them