This is a list of famous bank robberies

Bank robbery

Bank robbery is the crime of stealing from a bank during opening hours. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, robbery is "the taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of...

, bank robbers and gangs involved in bank robberies.

Australia

• Bank of Australia robbery
  Bank of Australia robbery
  The Bank of Australia robbery was the first bank robbery in Australia. On 14 September 1828 a gang of five robbers - William Blackstone, George Farrell, James Dingle, John Wilford alias Creighton and Valentine Rourke - tunnelled through a sewage drain into the vault of the Bank of Australia and...
  
  
• Ned Kelly
  Ned Kelly
  Edward "Ned" Kelly was an Irish Australian bushranger. He is considered by some to be merely a cold-blooded cop killer — others, however, consider him to be a folk hero and symbol of Irish Australian resistance against the Anglo-Australian ruling class.Kelly was born in Victoria to an Irish...
  
  
• Brenden Abbott
  Brenden Abbott
  Brenden James Abbott is an Australian bank robber who was branded the Postcard Bandit by the Western Australian Police to attract news media attention...
  
   – The Postcard Bandit
• Darcy Dugan
  Darcy Dugan
  Darcy Ezekial Dugan was an Australian bank robber and New South Wales' most notorious prison escape artist.Darcy Dugan grew up in the inner suburb of Annandale in Sydney. During his criminal career, he committed numerous armed holdups, robbing banks and even a hospital...
  
   – notorious prison escape artist
• Gregory David Roberts
  Gregory David Roberts
  Gregory David Roberts is an Australian author best known for his novel Shantaram. He is a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison in 1980, and fled to India where he lived for ten years.-Life:Roberts had become addicted to heroin after his marriage ended,...
  
   – author and bank robber
• Elise S McKenna – Campbelltown Bank Robbery – Murder of 6 patrons
• Overall Bandits – Andrew Domenic Davi and James Randall-Smith – Robbed 7 Adelaide banks
• Joseph Wells b.1858 d.1880 Australian National Bank Cunnamulla Robbery
• Trans Australia Airlines Flight 454
  Trans Australia Airlines Flight 454
  On 21 September 1982 five men were arrested by Queensland Police after a daring $600,000 robbery attempt at four Queensland airports. The men, all from Melbourne, were associates or close to the Painters and Dockers' Union...
  
   - attempted robbery of Reserve Bank of Australia
  Reserve Bank of Australia
  The Reserve Bank of Australia came into being on 14 January 1960 as Australia's central bank and banknote issuing authority, when the Reserve Bank Act 1959 removed the central banking functions from the Commonwealth Bank to it....
  
   shipment onboard flight

Brazil

• Banco Central burglary at Fortaleza
  Banco Central burglary at Fortaleza
  The Banco Central burglary at Fortaleza was the theft of about R$ 160 million from the vault of the Banco Central branch located in Fortaleza, in the state of Ceará, Brazil...
  
   – 2005, The largest Bank robbery in Brazil and one of the largest in history. (US$70.1 million)

Canada

• Kevin Pinto (Exchange Bandit)
• Paddy Mitchell
  Paddy Mitchell
  Patrick Michael "Paddy" Mitchell of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, was leader of the notorious "Stopwatch Gang" of bank robbers. Mitchell was regarded to be North America's most famous, most successful and, especially, most likeable bank robber of our time...
  
   (Stopwatch Gang)
• Stephen Reid
  Stephen Reid (writer)
  Stephen Reid is a Canadian writer, who has also been convicted twice of bank robbery.Born in Massey, Ontario, Reid began writing in 1984 while serving a 21-year prison sentence at the Kent Institution in Agassiz, British Columbia. During his sentence, he submitted a manuscript to Susan Musgrave,...
  
   (Stopwatch Gang)
• The Boyd Gang
• Roger Caron
  Roger Caron
  Roger "Mad Dog" Caron is a Canadian bank robber and the author of the influential 1978 prison memoir Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars...
  
  
• Ty Conn
  Ty Conn
  Tyrone Williams "Ty" Conn was a Canadian bank robber. He was the only person in the last half century to escape over the wall from the Kingston Penitentiary, one of Canada's most secure prisons....
  
  
• Monica Proietti
  Monica Proietti
  Monica Proietti was a Montreal bank robber and folk hero better known as "Machine Gun Molly" ....
  
  
• Front de libération du Québec
  Front de libération du Québec
  The Front de libération du Québec was a left-wing Quebecois nationalist and Marxist-Leninist paramilitary group in Quebec, Canada. It was active between 1963 and 1970, and was regarded as a terrorist organization for its violent methods of action...
  
  
• Randy Sauriol
• Bobby rackley
• Ralph Barkley
• Daniel Labrie
• Mark Belangeia
• Jamie Labreque
• Ali Jabara
• Roger Narian
• Danny Simpson
• Lionel Wright (Stopwatch Gang)

China

• Agricultural Bank of China robbery
  Agricultural Bank of China robbery
  The Agricultural Bank of China robbery was the embezzlement of nearly 51 million yuan from the Handan branch of the Agricultural Bank of China in Hebei province between March 16 and April 14, 2007...
  
  , March–April 2007 the largest bank robbery in China's history (51 million yuan, US$6.7 million)

Colombia

• Bank of the Republic (Colombia) robbery – On October 16 and 17, 1994, $24 075 million pesos (US$ 28.8 million dollars ) cash were extracted from the Bank in the city of Valledupar, Colombia. The money was in non-circulating bills of $2000, $5000 and $10000 pesos denominations. The bank had the serial number of every bill stolen.

France

• The Bonnot gang
  Bonnot gang
  The Bonnot Gang was a French criminal anarchist group that operated in France and Belgium during the Belle Époque, from 1911 to 1912...
  
   (La Bande à Bonnot)
• Jacques Mesrine
  Jacques Mesrine
  Jacques Mesrine was the most famous criminal in modern French history. He was responsible for numerous bank robberies, burglaries, and kidnappings in France and Canada. Mesrine repeatedly escaped from prison and made international headlines during a final period as a fugitive when his exploits...
  
  
• Albert Spaggiari
  Albert Spaggiari
  Albert Spaggiari , nicknamed Bert, was a French criminal chiefly known as the organizer of a break-in into a Société Générale bank in Nice, France in 1976.-Earlier life:...
  
  
• Toni Musulin
  Toni Musulin
  Toni Musulin is a French man of Serbo-Croatian origins, and a former security van driver for the Loomis security firm.He is known for having stolen 11.6 million euros from the Banque de France while on duty. At the time of the theft, he had emptied his flat and bank account...
  
  

Germany

• Red Army Faction
  Red Army Faction
  The radicalized were, like many in the New Left, influenced by:* Sociological developments, pressure within the educational system in and outside Europe and the U.S...
  
  
• Andreas Baader
  Andreas Baader
  Andreas Bernd Baader was one of the first leaders of the German left-wing militant organization Red Army Faction, also commonly known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang.- Life :...
  
  
• Gladbeck hostage crisis
  Gladbeck hostage crisis
  The Gladbeck hostage crisis was a hostage-taking in August 1988 after an armed bank raid in Gladbeck, Germany. Two men with previous criminal records, Dieter Degowski and Hans-Jürgen Rösner, went on the run for two days through Germany and the Netherlands....
  
   after a DM 300.000 bank-robbery by Dieter Degowski and Hans-Jürgen Rösner on August 16, 1988
• Harald Zirngibl Germany's most successful bankrobber > 17 bank raids / 4,75 Mio. DM haul

Hong Kong

Robberies

• 1979 Po Sang Bank robbery, the largest at the time

Robbers

• Yip Kai Foon
• Tsui Po-ko, who was also a police officer at the time

India

• Chelembra Bank Robbery
  Chelembra bank robbery
  The Chelambra bank robbery in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India is considered to be one of the biggest and most sensational bank robberies in the crime history of Kerala. In the early hours of 30 December 2007, the robbers made a hole in the floor of the South Malabar Gramin Bank and got...
  
   – Considered as one of the biggest bank robberies in India. Stolen Rs. 80 million (including 80 Kilograms of gold) on December 31, 2007. On February 28, 2008, Kerala Police
  Kerala Police
  The Kerala State Police is the law enforcement agency for the state of Kerala, India. Kerala Police has its headquarters in Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital. The Police training college was set up by Travancore Maharaja in Thiruvananthapuram in mid 20th centuary. In 2004,a larger Kerala...
  
   arrested four persons, including the kingpin behind the robbery and recovered 80% of the stolen gold.

Iraq

• Central Bank of Iraq
  Central Bank of Iraq
  -History:The Central Bank of Iraq was established as Iraq's central bank by Central Bank of Iraq Law 2004 with authorised capital of 100 billion dinars. The current Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq is Sinan Al Shabibi.-Architecture:...
  
  —Nearly US$1 billion is stolen on March 18, 2003, just hours after the United States began bombing
  2003 invasion of Iraq
  The 2003 invasion of Iraq , was the start of the conflict known as the Iraq War, or Operation Iraqi Freedom, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq and toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein in 21 days of major combat operations...
  
   Baghdad
  Baghdad
  Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. The population of Baghdad in 2011 is approximately 7,216,040...
  
  . This is considered the largest bank heist in history. (Source CNN http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/05/06/sprj.nilaw.bank/ )

July 28, 2009 – 12H39 – banking – crime – Iraq (AFP)
Eight dead, US$ 3.8 million dollars missing in Baghdad bank heist Thieves made off with at least 3.8 million dollars in a pre-dawn raid on a branch of state-owned Al-Rafidain bank in the central Baghdad shopping district of Karrada on Tuesday that left eight police guards dead in one of Iraq's biggest-ever heists.

• Dar Es Salaam Bank in Baghdad
  Baghdad
  Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. The population of Baghdad in 2011 is approximately 7,216,040...
  
  —About US$300,000 is stolen on July 12, 2007 by the bank's security guards, but mostly recovered later. (Source: Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1274958920070712)
• Al-Rafidain Bank, in the town of al-Mishkhab, 20 miles south of Najaf
  Najaf
  Najaf is a city in Iraq about 160 km south of Baghdad. Its estimated population in 2008 is 560,000 people. It is the capital of Najaf Governorate...
  
  -About US$5.5 million is stolen on Friday, May 28, 2010.

Ireland

Robbers

• Martin Cahill
  Martin Cahill
  Martin "The General" Cahill was a prominent Irish criminal from Dublin.Cahill generated a certain notoriety in the media, which referred to him by the sobriquet "The General". The name was also used by the media in order to discuss Cahill's activities while avoiding legal problems with libel...
  
  
• Gerry Hutch
  Gerry Hutch
  Gerry Hutch is a former Irish convicted criminal alleged to have been one of Ireland's most successful bank robbers. He is often known by his nickname of The Monk because he is famously clean living and religious, leading a "disciplined, ascetic lifestyle" after leaving prison in 1985. He was born...
  
  
• Kenneth Littlejohn
  Kenneth Littlejohn
  Kenneth Littlejohn , born c. 1941, from Birmingham, where he attended King Edward VI Grammar School, Aston, is a convicted armed robber and gaol-breaker who claimed to be an MI6/Official IRA double Agent...
  
  
• Terry Moloney
  Terry Moloney
  Terry Moloney is an American writer, producer, director and editor. He has won numerous awards for his work in film and television.-Career:...
  
  

Robberies

• Bank of Ireland robbery

Lebanon

• The British Bank of the Middle East
  SABB
  SABB is an affiliate of the HSBC Group. SABB has a branch in London.-Services:SABB offers services in investment banking, commercial banking, private banking, and Amana Islamic Banking....
  
   in January 1976 in Beirut £25 million the equivalent of £100 million today. This bank robbery was executed by the PLO.

Netherlands

Robberies

• The Museon Museum Jewel Heist
• Amsterdam Airport Schiphol The biggest jewel and diamond heist in Dutch history at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, where 75 million euros worth of jewels and diamonds was stolen from a secured cargo area. The robbers threatened security employees with guns and drove away in a money transport truck.

Robbers

• Hans Gruyters
  Hans Gruyters
  Hans Gruyters was a Dutch criminal. In the 1950s, he was a car salesman in Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. His nickname was the Black Rider, because he once appeared completely dressed in black at a party....
  
  

Pakistan

• ABL Karachi,December 13, 2009, 301 Million Rs

KARACHI: In the biggest bank robbery in Pakistan’s history, foreign currency worth Rs 301 million was looted from the Allied Bank Limited (ABL)’s head office on II Chundrigar Road here on Sunday morning. Earlier, the looted amount was projected as being over Rs 500 million.

Poland

• Wołów bank robbery
  Wołów bank robbery
  On Sunday, August 19, 1962, a group of six men, with help of a bank’s safe-keeper, robbed a local branch of the National Bank of Poland, located in the town of Wołów . Altogether, 12,531,000 złotys were stolen, which in late 2000s prices, would make some 18 million złotys...
  
   - the largest.
• Kredyt Bank in Warsaw
  Warsaw
  Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
  
  , 3 March 2001 - The bandits have stolen 100 thousand złoty's and shooting three cashiers and a security guard. Three criminals were sentenced to life imprisonment.

Sweden

Robberies

• The Norrmalmstorg Robbery
  Norrmalmstorg robbery
  The Norrmalmstorg robbery was a bank robbery and hostage crisis best known as the origin of the term Stockholm syndrome. It occurred at the Norrmalmstorg square in Stockholm, Sweden in 1973...
  
  
• Västberga helicopter robbery, 2009, helicopter robbery of a cash depot in southern Stockholm

Robbers

• John Ausonius
  John Ausonius
  John Wolfgang Alexander Ausonius , known in the media as Lasermannen is a Swedish convicted murderer, bank robber, and attempted serial killer. From August 1991 to January 1992 he shot eleven people in the Stockholm and Uppsala area, most of whom were immigrants, killing one and seriously injuring...
  
   – The Laser Man killer and convicted bank robber.

United Kingdom

Robbers

• Jimmy O'Loughlin
• Lee Murray
  Lee Murray
  Lee Lamrani Ibrahim "Lightning" Murray is an English-Moroccan mixed martial artist and convicted bank robber. He was sentenced to 10 years in jail in June 2010 for masterminding a 2006 £53 million armed raid in Kent, UK...
  
  
• James Crosbie
• Freddie Foreman
  Freddie Foreman
  Frederick Foreman is a convicted British criminal involved in the disposal of the body Jack “the Hat” McVitie and for which he served 16 years in prison....
  
  
• Frankie Fraser
  Frankie Fraser
  Francis Davidson Fraser is a former British criminal and gang member who spent 42 years in prison for numerous violent offences.-Early life:...
  
  
• Roy Shaw
  Roy Shaw
  Royston Henry Shaw , also known as Roy "Pretty Boy" Shaw, Roy "Mean Machine" Shaw and Roy West, is an English millionaire, real estate investor, author and businessman from the East End of London who was formerly a notorious criminal and Category A prisoner...
  
  
• Brian Thorogood
• Joey Pyle
• Dave Courtney
  Dave Courtney
  Dave Courtney is a self-proclaimed British former gangster who has become both an author and celebrity-gangster figure...
  
  

Robberies

• Croydon Airport
  Croydon Airport
  Croydon Airport was an airport in South London which straddled the boundary between what are now the London boroughs of Croydon and Sutton. It was the main airport for London before it was replaced by Northolt Aerodrome, London Heathrow Airport and London Gatwick Airport...
  
  , 1935, members of the Sabini gang stole £12 million (at today's value) worth of gold bullion.
• Heathrow Airport. 1952, Jack Spot's £1.25million heist failed.
• Eastcastle Street, 1952, Billy Hill's postal van robbery, netted £250,000.
• Great Train Robbery
  Great Train Robbery (1963)
  The Great Train Robbery is the name given to a £2.6 million train robbery committed on 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England. The bulk of the stolen money was not recovered...
  
  , 1963, Buster Edwards, Charlie Wilson, Bruce Reynolds, Ronnie Biggs etc. robbed £2.6million.
• Linwood bank robbery
  Linwood bank robbery
  The Linwood bank robbery was a bank robbery in Linwood, near Glasgow, in 1969. Three police officers were shot in the aftermath, including two fatally, and two officers were later awarded George Medals...
  
  , 1969, two policemen killed.
• Baker Street robbery
  Baker Street robbery
  The Baker Street robbery was a robbery of the safe deposit boxes at a branch of Lloyds Bank on the corner of Baker Street and Marylebone Road, London, on the night of 11 September 1971....
  
  , 1971, London, politically sensitive material taken from safe deposit boxes.
• Bank of America robbery, 1975, Mayfair, London. £8 million stolen; £500,000 recovered.
• Security Express, 1983, Curtain Road, Shoreditch, the Knight brothers and friends took £6m.
• Brink's-MAT robbery
  Brink's-MAT robbery
  The Brink's-MAT robbery occurred on 26 November 1983 when six robbers broke into the Brink's-MAT warehouse at Heathrow Airport, London. The robbers thought they were going to steal £3 million in cash; however, when they arrived, they found three tonnes of gold bullion...
  
  , 1983, Heathrow Airport, England, £26 million gold bullion.
• Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery
  Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery
  The Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery took place on 12 July 1987 in Knightsbridge, England, part of the City of Westminster in London. This robbery, the Banco Central burglary at Fortaleza, and the $900 million stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq in 2003 are said to be the largest bank...
  
  , 1987, £40 million. Valerio Viccei got himself caught.
• The City
  City of London
  The City of London is a small area within Greater London, England. It is the historic core of London around which the modern conurbation grew and has held city status since time immemorial. The City’s boundaries have remained almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, and it is now only a tiny part of...
  
   banker mugged for £292m in government bonds, 1990.
• Graff Jewellers 1
  Graff Diamonds robbery
  The Graff Diamonds robbery took place on 6 August 2009 when two men posing as customers entered the premises of Graff Diamonds in New Bond Street, London and stole jewellery worth nearly £40 million...
  
  , 2003, £23m in jewellery taken from this Mayfair store.
• Northern Bank robbery
  Northern Bank robbery
  The Northern Bank robbery was a large robbery of cash from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Carried out by a large, proficient group on 20 December 2004, the gang seized the equivalent of £26.5 million in pounds sterling and small amounts of...
  
  , 2004, Belfast, Northern Ireland, £26 million.
• Securitas depot robbery
  Securitas depot robbery
  The Securitas depot robbery was the largest cash robbery in British history, that took place on the evening of 21 February 2006 from 18:30 GMT until the early hours of 22 February...
  
  , 2006, Kent
  Kent
  Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
  
  , South East England
  South East England
  South East England is one of the nine official regions of England, designated in 1994 and adopted for statistical purposes in 1999. It consists of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex...
  
  , £53,116,760.
• Graff Jewellers 2
  Graff Diamonds robbery
  The Graff Diamonds robbery took place on 6 August 2009 when two men posing as customers entered the premises of Graff Diamonds in New Bond Street, London and stole jewellery worth nearly £40 million...
  
  , 2009, Another £40m in jewellery taken.

United States

Robbers

• Ma Barker
  Ma Barker
  Kate "Ma" Barker was the mother of several criminals who ran the Barker gang from the "public enemy era", when the exploits of gangs of criminals in the U.S. Midwest gripped the American people and press...
  
  
• Harvey Bailey
  Harvey Bailey
  Harvey John Bailey , called "The Dean of American Bank Robbers", had a long criminal career. One of the most successful bank robbers during the 1920s, walking off with over $1 million during that time, Bailey is almost forgotten today.- His career :Born in West Virginia, Bailey robbed his first...
  
  
• Clyde Barrow
  Bonnie and Clyde
  Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow were well-known outlaws, robbers, and criminals who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression. Their exploits captured the attention of the American public during the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934...
  
  , of Bonnie and Clyde
  Bonnie and Clyde
  Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow were well-known outlaws, robbers, and criminals who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression. Their exploits captured the attention of the American public during the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934...
  
  
• Naomi Betts
  Naomi Betts
  Naomi Betts is an American criminal who robbed the Fifth Third Bank in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. on October 9, 2003. She was arrested on May 27, 2004, after a May 22, 2004 airing of America's Most Wanted. During the robbery, she did not even attempt to conceal her face...
  
  
• James J. Bulger
  James J. Bulger
  James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger, Jr. is a former organized crime figure from Boston, Massachusetts.Local folklore depicted Bulger as a Robin Hood-style social bandit dedicated to protecting the neighborhood and its residents. Bulger allegedly masterminded a protection racket targeting drug kingpins...
  
  
• Butch Cassidy
  Butch Cassidy
  Robert LeRoy Parker , better known as Butch Cassidy, was a notorious American train robber, bank robber, and leader of the Wild Bunch Gang in the American Old West...
  
  , leader of the Hole in the Wall Gang
  Hole in the Wall Gang
  The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang was a gang in the American Wild West, which took its name from the Hole-in-the-Wall Pass in Johnson County, Wyoming, where several outlaw gangs had their hideouts. The Gang was not simply one large organized gang of outlaws, but rather was made up of several separate...
  
  
• William Daddano Sr.
• Emmett Dalton
  Emmett Dalton
  Emmett Dalton was an American outlaw, train robber and member of the Dalton Gang in the American Old West. Part of the ill-fated Dalton raid on two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas, he survived despite receiving 23 gunshot wounds...
  
  , principal of the Dalton Gang
  Dalton Gang
  The Dalton Gang, also known as The Dalton Brothers, was a family of both lawmen and outlaws in the American Old West during 1890-1892. They specialized in bank and train robberies. They were related to the Younger brothers, who rode with Jesse James, though they acted later and independently of...
  
  , 1890s
• Britton Davis, Pittsburgh
• Kenneth "Speedy" Raulerson
  Kenneth "Speedy" Raulerson
  Kenneth Scott Raulerson, also known as Speedy, is a bank robber from Levy County. A man charged with the daring robbery of the Dowling Park Barnett/Nations Bank May 18, 1998 while allegedly telling those inside the bank he had a bomb strapped to his chest...
  
  
• Kevin Ian Davis, Pittsburgh
• Bennie Dickson
  Bennie and Stella Dickson
  Bennie and Stella Dickson were Depression-era outlaws and bank robbers in the United States...
  
  
• Stella Mae Dickson
  Bennie and Stella Dickson
  Bennie and Stella Dickson were Depression-era outlaws and bank robbers in the United States...
  
  
• The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord
  The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord
  The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord was a radical Christian Identity organization formed in 1971 in the small community of Elijah in southern Missouri, United States.- Leadership :...
  
  
• John Dillinger
  John Dillinger
  John Herbert Dillinger, Jr. was an American bank robber in Depression-era United States. He was charged with, but never convicted of, the murder of an East Chicago, Indiana police officer during a shoot-out. This was his only alleged homicide. His gang robbed two dozen banks and four police stations...
  
  
• Bill Doolin
  Bill Doolin
  William "Bill" Doolin was an American bandit and founder of the Wild Bunch, an outlaw gang that specialized in robbing banks, trains and stagecoaches in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas during the 1890s.- Early life :...
  
  , 1890s
• Earl Durand
  Earl Durand
  Walter Earl Durand was a mountain man who lived off the land in the mountains of Wyoming during the years following the Depression. From an early age he taught himself to live with ease in the wilderness...
  
  
• Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd
  Pretty Boy Floyd
  Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd was an American bank robber. He operated in the West South Central States, and his criminal exploits gained heavy press coverage in the 1930s. Like most other prominent outlaws of that era, he was killed by law enforcement officers...
  
  
• Patty Hearst
  Patty Hearst
  Patricia Campbell Hearst , now known as Patricia Campbell Hearst Shaw, is an American newspaper heiress, socialite, actress, kidnap victim, and convicted bank robber....
  
  
• Vernon Miller
• J.L. Hunter
• James-Younger Gang
  James-Younger gang
  The James-Younger Gang was a notable 19th-century gang of American outlaws that included Jesse James.The gang was centered in the state of Missouri. Membership fluctuated from robbery to robbery, as the outlaws' raids were usually separated by many months...
  
  , 1866–1881
• Frank James
  Frank James
  Alexander Franklin "Frank" James was a famous American outlaw. He was the older brother of outlaw Jesse James.-Childhood:...
  
  , one of the two James Brothers
• Jesse James
  Jesse James
  Jesse Woodson James was an American outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber, and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. He also faked his own death and was known as J.M James. Already a celebrity when he was alive, he became a legendary...
  
  , the other member of the James Brothers pair
• Philip N. Johnson
  Philip N. Johnson
  Philip Noel Johnson was an armored car driver employed by Loomis Fargo & Company in Jacksonville, Florida. On March 29, 1997, Johnson pulled off what was then the largest cash heist in U.S. history, taking $18.8 million from the armored vehicle he was driving....
  
  , $18.8 million of Loomis-Fargo's Jacksonville. FL Office.
• Alvin Karpis
  Alvin Karpis
  Alvin Francis Karpis , nicknamed "Creepy" for his sinister smile, was an American criminal known for his alliance with the Barker gang in the 1930s. He was the last "public enemy" to be taken.-Early life:Karpis was born to Lithuanian immigrants in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and was raised in Topeka,...
  
  
• Tom Ketchum
  Tom Ketchum
  Thomas Everard Ketchum , known as Black Jack, was a cowboy who later turned to a life of crime. He was hanged in 1901 for attempted train robbery.-First train robberies and murders:...
  
  
• Harry Longabaugh
  Harry Longabaugh
  Harry Alonzo Longabaugh , better known as the Sundance Kid, was an outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, in the American Old West. Longabaugh likely met Butch Cassidy after Parker was released from prison around 1896...
  
  , known as "The Sundance Kid"
• Candice Rose Martinez
  Candice Rose Martinez
  Candice Rose Martinez , also known as the "Cell Phone Bandit," committed four bank robberies in Northern Virginia, U.S.A., in October and November of 2005, when she was a 19-year-old Northern Virginia Community College student...
  
  , "The Cell Phone Bandit"
• Emil Matasareanu & Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr., North Hollywood shootout
  North Hollywood shootout
  The North Hollywood shootout was an armed confrontation between two heavily armed bank robbers and officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in the North Hollywood district of Los Angeles on February 28, 1997...
  
  
• Mad Hatter (bank robber)
  Mad Hatter (Bank Robber)
  James Madison was the Mad Hatter who robbed 17 banks while wearing a variety of hats. He was apprehended on July 17, 2007 in Newark, New Jersey, shortly after police tracked his license plates. His modus operandi was to wear a different hat for each robbery.-References:...
  
  , 2006–2007
• May 19th Communist Organization
• McCanles gang
  McCanles Gang
  The supposed McCanles Gang or McCandless Gang was known as an outlaw gang in the early 1860s that was wanted for alleged train robbery, murder, bank robbery, cattle rustling, and horse theft. However, there are questions surrounding the veracity of not only the allegations, but the existence of any...
  
  , 1861
• Midwest Bank Robbers
  Midwest Bank Robbers
  The Aryan Republican Army is the name given to a White nationalist criminal group active in the United States in the early-to-mid 1990s. The group is alleged to have associated with convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in the months before the Oklahoma City bombing...
  
  , 1990s
• Black Liberation Army
  Black Liberation Army
  The Black Liberation Army was an underground, black nationalist-Marxist militant organization that operated in the United States from 1970 to 1981...
  
  
• Bugs Moran
  Bugs Moran
  George Clarence Moran , better known by the alias "Bugs" Moran, was a Chicago Prohibition-era gangster born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Moran, of Irish and Polish descent, moved to the north side of Chicago when he was 19, where he became affiliated with several gangs...
  
  
• Frank Nash
  Frank Nash
  Frank Nash has been called “the most successful bank robber in U.S. history,” but he is most noted for his violent death in what has become known as the Kansas City Massacre...
  
  
• George "Baby Face" Nelson
  Baby Face Nelson
  Lester Joseph Gillis , known under the pseudonym George Nelson, was a bank robber and murderer in the 1930s. Gillis was known as Baby Face Nelson, a name given to him due to his youthful appearance and small stature...
  
  
• Albert Frederick Nussbaum
  Albert Frederick Nussbaum
  Albert Frederick Nussbaum was a notorious 1960s-era bank robber and FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive. Nussbaum was born in Buffalo, New York. In the late 1950s, Nussbaum was arrested for possessing a Thompson Submachine gun and transporting unregistered weapons across state lines.Nussbaum was...
  
  
• The Order (group)
  The Order (group)
  The Order, also known as the Brüder Schweigen or Silent Brotherhood, was an organization active in the United States between 1983 and 1984...
  
  
• Joseph "Specs" O'Keefe
• The Reno Gang
  Reno Gang
  The Reno Brothers Gang, also known as the Reno Gang and The Jackson Thieves, were a group of criminals that operated in the Midwestern United States during and just after the American Civil War. Though short-lived, they carried out the first three peacetime train robberies in U.S. history...
  
  
• Stanley Mark Rifkin
  Stanley Mark Rifkin
  Stanley Mark Rifkin is a convicted criminal in the United States responsible for stealing $10.2 million dollars through wire transfer via telephone in the autumn of 1978. At the time, it was the largest bank robbery in U.S...
  
  , $10.2 million in 1978, the largest in U.S. history at the time
• Mutulu Shakur
  Mutulu Shakur
  Mutulu Shakur , is a former proponent of the Republic of New Afrika and a close friend of Geronimo Pratt....
  
  
• Timothy Smith Pittsburgh
• Luke Elliott Sommer
  Luke Elliott Sommer
  Luke Elliott Sommer is a former United States Army Ranger and bank robber. After almost two years under house arrest in Canada, he pleaded guilty on May 27, 2008 to the August 7, 2006 robbery of a branch of the Bank of America in Tacoma, Washington.- Charges :On December 15, 2008 Sommer was...
  
  
• Henry Starr
  Henry Starr
  Henry Starr was an American outlaw: specifically, a horse thief and train robber. He was also convicted of murder once, of U.S. Deputy Marshal on December 13, 1892. Henry Starr claimed in court to not have known he was a U.S. Marshal and only to know that a man had opened fire on him without...
  
  
• Symbionese Liberation Army
  Symbionese Liberation Army
  The Symbionese Liberation Army was an American self-styled left-wing urban militant group active between 1973 and 1975 that considered itself a revolutionary vanguard army...
  
  
• Willie "The Actor" Sutton
  Willie Sutton
  William "Willie" Sutton was a prolific U.S. bank robber. During his forty-year criminal career he stole an estimated $2 million, and eventually spent more than half of his adult life in prison...
  
  
• Trenchcoat Robbers – 1997 $4.46M cash
• Bobby Randell Wilcoxson
  Bobby Randell Wilcoxson
  Bobby Randell Wilcoxson was born July 10, 1929, in Duke, Oklahoma. He was well respected as an efficient crew foreman in the lettuce fields of the Salinas Valley in California, because he spoke Spanish and intimidated laborers. He worked in the produce business in Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas...
  
  
• John Wojtowicz
  John Wojtowicz
  John Stanley Wojtowicz was an American bank robber whose story inspired the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon.-Background:...
  
  
• Adam Worth
  Adam Worth
  Adam Worth was an American criminal. Scotland Yard detective Robert Anderson nicknamed him "the Napoleon of the criminal world", and he is commonly referred to as "the Napoleon of Crime".-Earlier life:...
  
  
• Granddad Bandit
  Granddad Bandit
  The Granddad Bandit is a serial bank robber, notable for both his age and proficiency at robbing banks. As of June, 2010, he has robbed at least 21 banks in the Eastern and Central United States. His first robbery was in January 2009. He was nicknamed the "Granddad Bandit" because of his age,...
  
  
• United Freedom Front
  United Freedom Front
  The United Freedom Front was a small American Marxist organization active in the 1970s and 1980s. It was originally called the Sam Melville/Jonathan Jackson Unit, and its members became known as the Ohio 7 when they were brought to trial...
  
  
• Scott "Hollywood" Scurlock
  Scott Scurlock
  Scott Scurlock born William Scott Scurlock, , nicknamed the Hollywood Bandit was a bank robber in the state of Washington during the 1990s. He was a master of disguise, using Hollywood quality make-up he successfully robbed dozens of banks in the Seattle area...
  
  
• Geezer bandit
  Geezer bandit
  "Geezer Bandit" is the name given to a man by the FBI who is robbing banks in Southern California. This man is accused of robbing over a dozen banks so far.-Investigation:...
  
  

Robberies (chronological)

• United States Trust Company theft
  United States Trust Company theft
  The United States Trust Company theft occurred December 14, 1934, when $590,000 in United States Treasury bills was taken from the offices of the United States Trust Company in New York City. On December 14, 14 securities disappeared from the Trust Corporation's securities cage, where high-value...
  
  , 1934
• Bank of the Manhattan Company theft
  United States Trust Company theft
  The United States Trust Company theft occurred December 14, 1934, when $590,000 in United States Treasury bills was taken from the offices of the United States Trust Company in New York City. On December 14, 14 securities disappeared from the Trust Corporation's securities cage, where high-value...
  
  , 1935, same gang as the United States Trust Company theft one month earlier, $1.462 million in U.S. Government securities (largest to that date)
• Great Brink's Robbery, 1950, $2.78 million in cash, cheques and securities (largest value robbery to that date)
• United California Bank robbery
  United California Bank robbery
  On 24 March 1972, the safe deposit vault at United California Bank in Laguna Niguel, California, was broken into and looted by professional burglars led by Amil Dinsio. His accomplices were James Dinsio, Harry Barber, Ronald Barber, Phil Christopher, Charles Mulligan, and Charles Brockles...
  
  , 1972, safe deposit boxes looted of approximately $30 million in cash and valuables (largest value in world to that date)
• Lufthansa heist
  Lufthansa heist
  The Lufthansa heist was a robbery at John F. Kennedy International Airport on December 11, 1978. An estimated $5 million in cash and $875,000 in jewels were stolen, at the time making it the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil...
  
  , 1978, $5 million in cash (largest cash to that date) and $875,000 in jewels
• Security Pacific Bank, Norco, California
  Norco shootout
  The Norco shootout was an armed confrontation between five heavily armed bank robbers and deputies of the Riverside and San Bernardino County sheriff's departments in Norco, California, United States on May 9, 1980...
  
  , 1980, deadly shootout between local law enforcement and five bank robbers
• Brinks robbery
  Brinks robbery (1981)
  The Brink's robbery of 1981 was an armed robbery committed on October 20, 1981, which was carried out by Black Liberation Army members; including Jeral Wayne Williams , Donald Weems , Samuel Smith, Nathaniel Burns , Cecilio "Chui" Ferguson, Samuel Brown ; several former members of the Weather...
  
  , 1981, deadly shootout between local law enforcement and 10+ bank robbers populated with members of two revolutionary organizations
• White Eagle, 1983, $7.2 million in cash (largest cash to that date)
• 1986 FBI Miami shootout, 1986, deadly shootout between FBI and two bank robbers
• North Hollywood shootout
  North Hollywood shootout
  The North Hollywood shootout was an armed confrontation between two heavily armed bank robbers and officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in the North Hollywood district of Los Angeles on February 28, 1997...
  
  , 1997, deadly shootout between local law enforcement and two bank robbers
• Loomis Fargo armored car robbery by Philip N. Johnson
  Philip N. Johnson
  Philip Noel Johnson was an armored car driver employed by Loomis Fargo & Company in Jacksonville, Florida. On March 29, 1997, Johnson pulled off what was then the largest cash heist in U.S. history, taking $18.8 million from the armored vehicle he was driving....
  
  , March 1997, $18.8 million in cash
• Dunbar Armored robbery
  Dunbar Armored robbery
  The Dunbar Armored robbery is the largest cash robbery to have occurred in the United States. It occurred in 1997 at the Dunbar Armored facility in Los Angeles, California. The thieves made off with some US$18.9 million....
  
  , September 1997, $18.9 million in cash (the current U.S. cash robbery record)
• Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery
  Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery
  The Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery was the $17.3 million cash robbery of the Charlotte, North Carolina, regional office vault of Loomis Fargo & Company on the evening of October 4, 1997, by armored car driver and vault supervisor David Scott Ghantt...
  
  , October 1997, $17.3 million in cash
• 1998 Bank of America robbery, $1.6 million cash