Banks (surname)
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Athletes
- Antonio BanksAntonio BanksHassan Hamin Assad , better known by his ring name Montel Vontavious Porter , is an American professional wrestler currently signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling , where he was the inaugural IWGP Intercontinental Champion...
, American wrestler - Antonio Banks (American football)Antonio Banks (American football)Antonio Dontral Banks is a former American football defensive back in the National Football League for the Minnesota Vikings. He played college football at Virginia Tech and was drafted in the fourth round of the 1997 NFL Draft....
, defensive back - Brad BanksBrad BanksBrad Banks is an American football quarterback who is currently a free agent. He was originally signed by the Washington Redskins...
, American football player - Carl BanksCarl BanksCarl E. Banks is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League from 1984 to 1995 for the New York Giants, the Washington Redskins and the Cleveland Browns. He made the Pro Bowl in 1987, had 39.5 career quarterback sacks, and was a member of the NFL's 1980's All-Decade Team...
, American football player - Chip BanksChip BanksWilliam Chip Banks is a former professional American football linebacker.He graduated from Lucy Craft Laney High School, Augusta, GA.-Professional career:...
, American football player - Denis BanksDenis BanksDennis Banks is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the VFL/AFL.Banks was from East Reservoir and played as a Centre Half Forward, but injuries prevented him from developing into a key position player. He made his debut in 1979 and played in the...
, Australian rules footballer - Ernie BanksErnie BanksErnest "Ernie" Banks , nicknamed "Mr. Cub", is a former Major League Baseball shortstop and first baseman. He played his entire 19-year baseball career with the Chicago Cubs . He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977.-High school years:Banks was a letterman and standout in football,...
(born 1931), U.S. baseball player - Gordon BanksGordon BanksGordon Banks, OBE is a retired English football goalkeeper. The IFFHS named Banks the second best goalkeeper of the 20th century – after Lev Yashin and ahead of Dino Zoff ....
(born 1937), British footballer - Henry BanksHenry BanksHenry Banks was an American midget car and "big car" driver.-Background:Henry Banks was born in England, but brought up in Royal Oak, Michigan. He was the son of an early European race-driver...
, American racing driver - Johnathon BanksJohnathon BanksJohnathon Maurice Banks is a professional boxer. Prior to turning pro, Banks was a three time National Amateur Champion at 178 lbs.Banks started playing the piano in middle school, but boxing soon took over and dominated that desire...
(born 1982), American boxer - Maud BanksMaud BanksMaud Banks of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was a tennis champion who played in the latter stages of the 19th Century and in the early part of the 20th Century....
, American tennis player - Marcus BanksMarcus BanksArthur Lemarcus Banks III, commonly known as Marcus Banks , is an American professional basketball player who most recently played with the New Orleans Hornets of the NBA....
, American basketball player - Omari BanksOmari BanksOmari Ahmed Clement Banks is a West Indian cricketer and musical artist. He has appeared in 10 Test matches for the West Indies, and currently plays domestic cricket for Leeward Islands. In 2011 Omari began to pursue his musical career professionally and has been less involved in playing...
, West Indian cricketer - Percy BanksPercy BanksPercy d'Aguilar Banks played first-class cricket for Somerset in 1903 and 1908. He was born at Bath, Somerset and died in the First World War fighting at Ypres, Belgium....
, English cricketer - Sean BanksSean BanksSean Anthony Banks is an American]] professional basketball player currently in the NBA Development League and playing for Idaho Stampede...
, American basketball player - Sonny BanksSonny BanksSonny Banks , born Lucien Banks,was an American boxer best known for being the first fighter to drop a young Muhammad Ali . At the time Banks was a rising prospect and known for a fast sharp left hook....
, American boxer - Steve BanksSteve BanksSteven "Steve" Banks is an English footballer playing as goalkeeper and is also goalkeeping coach for Scottish Premier League club Dundee United.-Early career:...
, English football goalkeeper - Tom Banks (football player)
- Tony Banks (American football), quarterback
- Willie BanksWillie BanksWilliam Augustus Banks III is an American athlete. Born at Travis Air Force Base, California, he grew up in San Diego County and went to Oceanside High School. Banks is an Eagle Scout....
, American track - Willie BanksWillie Banks (baseball)Willie Anthony Banks was a pitcher for Major League Baseball's Minnesota Twins , Chicago Cubs , Los Angeles Dodgers , Florida Marlins , New York Yankees , Arizona Diamondbacks and Boston Red Sox .Banks was a member of the 1991 World Series champion Minnesota Twins, the 1995...
, baseball player
Politicians
- Dennis BanksDennis BanksDennis Banks , a Native American leader, teacher, lecturer, activist and author, is an Anishinaabe born on Leech Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. Banks is also known as Nowa Cumig...
(born 1932), Native American activist and writer - Gordon Banks (politician)Gordon Banks (politician)Gordon Raymond Banks is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Ochil and South Perthshire since 2005.-Early life:...
, British politician - Hal C. BanksHal C. BanksHarold Chamberlain "Hal" Banks from Waterloo, Iowa was a controversial labour union leader in Canada...
, Canadian labour leader - John Banks (New Zealand)John Banks (New Zealand)John Archibald Banks, CNZM QSO is a New Zealand politician. He served as Mayor of Auckland City for two terms, from 2001 to 2004, and from 2007 to 2010...
(born 1946), mayor of Auckland, New Zealand - Nathaniel Prentice BanksNathaniel Prentice BanksNathaniel Prentice Banks was an American politician and soldier, served as the 24th Governor of Massachusetts, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and as a Union general during the American Civil War....
, American politician - Rosemary BanksRosemary BanksRosemary Banks is a New Zealand diplomat, currently New Zealand's Ambassador to France. She was formerly New Zealand's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York from June 2005 to June 2009...
, New Zealand's ambassador to France - Tommy BanksTommy BanksThomas Benjamin "Tommy" Banks, OC, AOE is a Canadian pianist, conductor, arranger, composer, television personality and Senator....
(born 1936), Canadian musician and politician - Tony Banks, Baron StratfordTony Banks, Baron StratfordAnthony Louis Banks, Baron Stratford was a British Labour Party politician, who was a Member of Parliament from 1983 to 2005, before being made a Member of the House of Lords. In government, he served for two years as Minister for Sport...
(1943-2006), British Labour politician
Writers
- Carolyn BanksCarolyn BanksCarolyn Banks is an American novelist, short-story writer, editor, and screen writer residing in Bastrop, Texas.Her first national publication was her short story "Idyll," which appeared in Voyages , a literary magazine, in 1968, alongside the work of Anaïs Nin, Josephine Miles and Theodore Weiss...
, American novelist - Chris BanksChris Banks-Life:Banks' childhood was spent in the small Ontario towns of Stayner, Sioux Lookout, and Bancroft. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Guelph, before moving on to complete a Masters of Arts in Creative Writing from Concordia University and later a Bachelor of Education from the...
, Canadian poet - George Linnaeus BanksGeorge Linnaeus BanksGeorge Linnaeus Banks , husband of author Isabella Banks, was a British journalist, editor, poet, playwright, amateur actor, orator, and Methodist....
, British writer - Isabella Varley Banks, British novelist, wife of the above
- Iain BanksIain BanksIain Banks is a Scottish writer. He writes mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks, and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies...
(born 1954), Scottish novelist - Isabella Varley Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks, British novelist
- Leslie Esdaile BanksLeslie Esdaile BanksLeslie Esdaile Banks was an American writer. She wrote in various genres, including African American literature, romance, women's fiction, crime suspense, dark fantasy/horror and non-fiction...
, American novelist - Michael A. BanksMichael A. BanksMichael A. Banks is a science fiction writer and editor. He is perhaps best known for nonfiction works about the genre and collaborations with Mack Reynolds. Banks has several other novels to his credit, Michael A. Banks (born 1951) is a science fiction writer and editor. He is perhaps best...
, American science fiction writer - Russell BanksRussell BanksRussell Banks is an American writer of fiction and poetry.- Biography :Russell Banks was born in Newton, Massachusetts on March 28, 1940. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in upstate New York, and has been named a New York State Author. He is also...
, American novelist
Entertainment industry
- Aidan Banks, bass guitarist
- Ant BanksAnt BanksAnthony Banks, known simply as Ant Banks, is a producer and rapper from Oakland, California.-Biography:As a child he took part in a band at school and from there learned to play a variety of instruments along the way. At school he only learned Classical, but at home he taught himself to play Funk...
, rapper - Bessie BanksBessie BanksBessie Banks is an American soul singer, best known for her original recording of the Moody Blues’ hit song "Go Now".-Life and career:...
, American soul singer - Briana BanksBriana BanksBriana Banks is a German-American pornographic actress and model.-Early life:Briana Bany was born in Munich, Bavaria to a German father and an Italian-American mother. They moved to Britain when she was four years old, and to the Los Angeles, California, United States suburb of Simi Valley when...
, American pornographic actress - Doug BanksDoug BanksDoug Banks is an American radio personality and host of The Doug Banks Radio Show.-Career highlights:The Philadelphia-born, Detroit raised Banks began his radio career broadcasting on the high school radio station. Local station WDRQ took notice of his talent and offered him a spot as a temporary...
, American radio personality - Elizabeth BanksElizabeth BanksElizabeth Maresal Mitchell , known professionally as Elizabeth Banks, is an American actress. Banks had her film debut in the low-budget independent film Surrender Dorothy...
, American actress - Jonathan BanksJonathan BanksJonathan Ray Banks is an American actor in film and television.Banks was born in Washington, D.C. in 1947. His mother worked for the CIA. Banks attended Indiana University Bloomington where he was a classmate of Kevin Kline...
(born 1947), American actor - Larry BanksLarry BanksLawrence H. "Larry" Banks was an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and record producer.-Life and career:Banks was born in New York City and grew up in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn...
, American soul singer, songwriter and record producer - Leslie BanksLeslie BanksLeslie Banks, CBE was an English theatre and cinema actor, director and producer, now best remembered playing gruff, menacing characters in black and white movies of the 1930s and 1940s.-Early life:...
, British actor and director - Lionel BanksLionel BanksWith over 200 films to his credit, Lionel Banks was a hard-working art director from 1935 to 1949...
, cinematic art director - Lloyd BanksLloyd BanksChristopher Charles Lloyd , better known by his stage name Lloyd Banks, is an American rapper and member of the rap group G-Unit. Raised in South Jamaica, Queens, he dropped out of high school in 1998. G-Unit released two albums, Beg for Mercy in 2003 and T.O.S. in 2008...
, American rapper - Mike BanksMike Banks (musician)Michael Anthony Banks, better known as "Mad" Mike Banks, is an American techno producer. He is the co-founder, along with Jeff Mills, of US record label Underground Resistance and was a key player in the "second generation" of Detroit techno....
, techno musician - Monty BanksMonty BanksMontague Banks was a comedian and film director. In the 1920s, he worked in Hollywood, starring in many silent short comedies and in the feature-length action thriller Play Safe...
(1887-1950), comedian and film director - Morwenna BanksMorwenna BanksMorwenna Banks is a British comedy actress, writer and producer.Banks is perhaps best known in the UK as a cast member of the British Channel 4 comedy series Absolutely, where her best-known character was a schoolgirl who sat on the edge of a desk.She appeared as the Keeper of the Rules in the...
, British actress and comedian - Nancy Banks-SmithNancy Banks-SmithNancy Banks-Smith is a British television critic; she began writing for The Guardian in 1969. In 1970 she was recommended for the Order of the British Empire, which she declined.*1951- 1955: Northern Daily Telegraph, reporter...
, British television critic - Nick BanksNick BanksNick Banks is the English drummer in the British band, Pulp. He lives in Sheffield with his wife Sarah Banks, two children , and his dog Geoff...
, British drummer and businessman - Paul BanksPaul BanksPaul Julian Banks is an English American musician, best known as the lead singer, lyricist and guitarist of the rock band Interpol. He is also a solo artist under the name Julian Plenti. As a singer, Banks' voice lies in the baritone range.-Early life:Banks was born in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, England...
, American singer and guitarist - Peter BanksPeter BanksPeter Banks is an English guitarist. He was the original guitarist of the progressive rock band Yes.-Early career:When Banks was a young boy, his father bought him an acoustic guitar...
, English guitarist - Robert Banks (filmmaker)Robert Banks (filmmaker)-Biography:Banks attended the Cleveland School of the Arts, and has taught film at Cuyahoga Community College, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and Cleveland State University....
(Robert C. Banks, Jr.) (born 1966), American filmmaker - Robin BanksRobin BanksRobin Banks is a TV presenter and radio DJ originally from Kilkenny, Ireland. He is not to be confused with the former Radio North Sea International DJ and engineer Robin Banks, real name Robin Adcroft.-Career:He is the narrator in the British/European version of the popular Discovery Channel...
, radio DJ and TV presenter in the UK - Steven BanksSteven BanksSteven Banks is an American musician, comedian, actor, mime and writer of television, plays, books and cartoons, including SpongeBob SquarePants.Banks attended Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus clown college...
, American comedian, actor and screenwriter (TV, primarily) - Tony Banks (musician)Tony Banks (musician)This article is about the musician. For other people named Tony Banks, see Tony BanksAnthony George "Tony" Banks is a British composer, and multi-instrumentalist, who performs as a keyboardist and a guitarist...
(born 1950), British songwriter and musician
Other
- Alvin BanksAlvin BanksAlvin Banks II is an American football running back who is currently a free agent. He was originally signed by the Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played college football at James Madison....
, Congressional staffer - Darryl BanksDarryl BanksDarryl Banks is a comic book artist. He worked on one of the first painted comic books, Cyberpunk, and teamed with the writer Mark Ellis to revamp the long-running The Justice Machine series for two publishers, Innovation and Millennium....
, comics artist - David Banks (disambiguation)David Banks (disambiguation)David Banks may refer to:*David Banks , British actor*David Banks , American boxer*David Banks , English cricketer*David Banks , English cricketer...
- Edgar James BanksEdgar James BanksEdgar James Banks . American diplomat, antiquarian and novelist. Banks was an antiquities enthusiast and entrepreneurial roving archaeologist in the closing days of the Ottoman Empire, who has been held up as an original for the fictional composite figure of Indiana Jones...
(1866–1945), American archeologist - Edward BanksEdward BanksEdward H. Banks was a British administrator, amateur naturalist and museum curator.-Life:Banks was born in Newport, Wales. He studied at Oxford University....
(1903-1988), British naturalist and museum curator - Edward Banks (disambiguation)Edward Banks (disambiguation)Edward Banks may refer to:* Eddie Banks, fictional character in defunct British soap opera, Brookside* Edward Banks , British district officer and museum curator in Sarawak...
- Francis Rodwell BanksFrancis Rodwell BanksAir Commodore Francis Rodwell "Rod" Banks, RAF , CB., OBE., Commander of Legion of Honour , Commander of the Legion of Merit , Military Order of St. Stanislaus , Hon. CGIA., Hon. FRAeS, Hon...
, British engineer and fuel specialist - George BanksGeorge BanksGeorge Emil Banks is an American mass murderer, sentenced to death by electrocution, but later declared by the court to be too psychotic to execute. Banks, a former Camp Hill prison guard, shot 13 people to death on September 25, 1982 in Wilkes-Barre City and Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania,...
, American convicted murderer - James Arthur BanksJames Arthur BanksJames Arthur Banks CVO, OBE, FRSE was a Scottish civil engineer.Banks was born in Glasgow in 1897. He initially trained as a structural engineer and then joined Babtie, Shaw and Morton in 1921 to train as a civil engineer. He worked in England and the USA and returned to Babtie, Shaw and Morton in...
(1897-1967), British civil engineer - Sir Joseph BanksJoseph BanksSir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage . Banks is credited with the introduction to the Western world of eucalyptus, acacia, mimosa and the genus named after him,...
(1743–1820), English naturalist - Mary MacLeod BanksMary MacLeod BanksMary MacLeod Banks was a folklorist.Mary MacLeod McConnel, born in Edinburgh, the daughter of D.C. McConnel, a colonist of Queensland, spent her formative years in Australia and Europe. Her husband Alfred Banks, an English architect, died on a journey to the United Kingdom...
(1861-1951), folklorist - Nathan BanksNathan BanksNathan Banks was an American entomologist noted for his work on neuroptera, megaloptera, hymenoptera, and acarina . He started work on mites in 1880 with the USDA...
, American entomologist - Nathaniel P. Banks, American Civil War Union general
- Robert Banks (chemist)Robert Banks (chemist)Robert L. Banks was an American chemist. He was born and grew up in Piedmont, Missouri. He attended Southeast Missouri State University, and initiated into Alpha Phi Omega in 1940. He joined the Phillips Petroleum company in 1946 and worked there until he retired in 1985.He was a fellow research...
- Thomas BanksThomas BanksThomas Banks , English sculptor, son of a surveyor who was land steward to the Duke of Beaufort, was born in London. He was taught drawing by his father, and in 1750 was apprenticed to a woodcarver. In his spare time he worked at sculpture, spending his evenings in the studio of the Flemish émigré...
(1735–1805), English sculptor - Tom Banks (disambiguation)
- Tyra BanksTyra BanksTyra Lynne Banks is an American model, media personality, actress, occasional singer, author and businesswoman. She first became famous as a model, but television appearances were her commercial breakthrough...
(born 1973), American supermodel
Fictional characters
- Inspector Alan BanksInspector Alan BanksDetective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is the fictional protagonist in a series of crime novels written by acclaimed writer Peter Robinson.-Background:...
, fictional character from Peter Robinson - Clifford BanksClifford BanksClifford Banks is a fictional character introduced during the second season of the television program Murder One. Banks was portrayed by character actor Pruitt Taylor Vince....
, fictional character from Murder One (TV series) - Rosie M. BanksRosie M. BanksRosie M. Banks is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves and Drones Club stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a romance novelist and the wife of Bingo Little. Suggested real-life models for this character include prolific early twentieth-century female romance novelists...
, fictional character from P. G. Wodehouse - Tom Banks (EastEnders)Tom Banks (EastEnders)Tom Banks is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Colm Ó Maonlaí. Introduced in April 2002 as a love interest for Sharon Watts, producers made the decision to axe the character and he was killed-off in November 2002...
, fictional character from EastEnders - Jared BanksJared BanksJared Banks is a fictional character on the American daytime drama One Life to Live. Originally slated to debut on August 17, 2007, the character, as portrayed by John Brotherton, first appeared a week earlier on August 10, 2007. Chris Bones played a young Jared in flashbacks on January 17, 2008...
, fictional character from One Life to Live - Charlie BanksCharlie Banks (One Life to Live)Charles "Charlie" Banks is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. He was portrayed by Brian Kerwin from October 25, 2007 to May 11, 2011.-Character history:...
, fictional character from One Life to Live - Natalie BanksNatalie BuchananNatalie Buchanan Banks is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live and daughter of former supercouple Victoria Lord and Clint Buchanan...
, fictional character from One Life to Live - Victoria Lord BanksVictoria LordVictoria "Viki" Lord is the principal fictional character and matriarch of the Lord family on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live...
, fictional character form One Life to Live - Adam Banks. fictional character from Mighty DucksMighty DucksMighty Ducks is a half-hour Disney animated series that aired on ABC and The Disney Afternoon in the fall of 1996. The show was inspired by and very loosely based on the live-action films and NHL team of the same name. Twenty-six episodes were produced in total...
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Fictional families
- The Banks are a fictional family from the television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-AirThe Fresh Prince of Bel-AirThe Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 10, 1990 to May 20, 1996. The show stars Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself, a street-smart teenager from West Philadelphia who is sent to move in with his aunt and uncle in their...
- Name of a family of Hobbits in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Banks family in the Mary PoppinsMary PoppinsMary Poppins is a series of children's books written by P. L. Travers and originally illustrated by Mary Shepard. The books centre on a magical English nanny, Mary Poppins. She is blown by the East wind to Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane, London and into the Banks' household to care for their...
series of children's books by P. L. TraversP. L. TraversPamela Lyndon Travers OBE was an Australian novelist, actress and journalist, popularly remembered for her series of children's novels about the mystical and magical nanny Mary Poppins...
, and the filmMary Poppins (film)Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...
and musicalMary Poppins (musical)Mary Poppins is a Walt Disney Theatrical musical based on the similarly titled series of children's books by P. L. Travers and the Disney 1964 film. The West End production opened in December 2004 and received two Olivier Awards, one for Best Actress in a Musical and the other for Best Theatre...
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