John Banks or Bankes may refer to:
Politics and law
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Sir John Banks, 1st Baronet
Sir John Banks, 1st Baronet FRS (1627 – 18 October 1699) was an English merchant and MP, who rose from relatively humble beginnings to be one of the wealthiest merchants in London and owner of several properties.
Life
Banks was the son of C ...
(1627–1699), English merchant and Member of Parliament
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John Banks (American politician) (1793–1864), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
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John Gray Banks (1888–1961), politician in Canada
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John Banks (activist) (1915–2010), English political activist and writer
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John Banks (New Zealand politician)
John Archibald Banks (born 2 December 1946) is a New Zealand former politician. He was a member of Parliament for the National Party from 1981 to 1999, and for ACT New Zealand from 2011 to 2014. He was a Cabinet Minister from 1990 to 1996 and ...
(born 1946), New Zealand politician
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John Bankes
Sir John Bankes (1589 – 28 December 1644) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1624 and 1629. He was Attorney General and Chief Justice to Charles I during the English Civil War. Corfe Castle, his fa ...
(1589–1644), Attorney General and Chief Justice to King Charles I of England
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John Bankes (judge) (1854–1947), English judge
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John Bankes (died 1772), British politician
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John Eldon Bankes
Sir John Eldon Bankes, (17 April 1854 – 31 December 1946) was a Welsh judge of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, and later a Lord Justice of Appeal.
Biography
Born in Northop, Flintshire on 17 April 1854, he was ...
(1854–1946), Welsh judge
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John Garnett Banks (1889–1974), Scottish businessman and local politician
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John Bankes (died 1714)
John Bankes (1665 – 14 July 1714) was a British Tories (British political party), Tory politician, who served as Member of Parliament for Corfe Castle (UK Parliament constituency), Corfe Castle.
Life
Bankes was the son of Sir Ralph Bankes (s ...
, Member of Parliament 1698–1714 for
Corfe Castle
Corfe Castle is a fortification standing above the Corfe Castle (village), village of the same name on the Isle of Purbeck peninsula in the English county of Dorset. Built by William the Conqueror, the castle dates to the 11th century and ...
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John W. Banks (1867–1958), justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court
Sport
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John Banks (cricketer)
John Elliott Banks (26 May 1903 – 20 October 1979) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Wellington cricket team, Wellington from 1924 to 1926.
Banks was born in England and moved to New Zealand with his family in abo ...
(1903–1979), New Zealand cricketer
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John Banks (motorcyclist), British motocross racer
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John Banks (baseball) (1922–2011), Negro league baseball player
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John Banks (footballer) (1875–1947), English footballer
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Johnny Banks
Johnny Banks (born December 25, 1861, in Richmond, Virginia), was an African American boxer who fought under the sobriquet "The Darkey Wizard" and was the Negro Middleweight Champion of the World during the mid-1880s.
Standing 5'6" tall (some s ...
(1861–?), American boxer
Others
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John Banks (playwright)
John Banks (1650–1706) was an English playwright of the English Restoration, Restoration era. His works concentrated on historical dramas, and his plays were twice suppressed because of their implications, or supposed implications, for t ...
(died 1706), English playwright of the Restoration era
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John Banks (East India Company officer)
John Sherbrooke Banks (1811–1857) was a British major.
Banks was in 1828 nominated to a cadetship in the Bengal army by the Right Honourable Charles Wynn, at that time president of the India Board, Board of Control. Arriving in India in 1829, he ...
(1811–1857), British officer
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John Thomas Banks
Sir John Thomas Banks (14 October 1816 – 16 July 1908) was an Anglo-Irish physician and, between 1880 and 1898, Regius Professor of Physic at Trinity College, Dublin.
Life Provenance
Although born in London, Banks lived and worked in Irela ...
(1816–1908), Anglo-Irish physician
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John Banks (drummer) (1943–1988), drummer for The Merseybeats
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John Banks (mercenary recruiter)
John Edward Banks (born 1945) is a British former soldier, mercenary recruiter, and the founder of the Security Advisory Services.
Early life
John Banks was born in Aldershot in 1945 into the family of an Army Medical Corps officer serving in th ...
(born 1945), British mercenary recruiter
See also
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John Bancks (1709–1751), writer
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Jonathan Banks
Jonathan Ray Banks (born January 31, 1947) is an American actor. He played FBI Special Agent Frank McPike in the television series '' Wiseguy'' (1987–1990). For his role, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supportin ...
(born 1947), American character actor
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