John Banks or Bankes may refer to:

Politics and law

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 * John Banks (American politician) (1793–1864), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania *

John Gray Banks John Gray Banks (June 30, 1888 – June 24, 1961) was a lawyer and political figure in Saskatchewan. He represented Pelly from 1948 to 1952 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Liberal. He was born in Durham, Ontario, the son ...

(1888–1961), politician in Canada *

John Banks (activist) John Croisdale Banks (June 1915 – 16 January 2010) was an English political activist and writer, noted for his work on the territorial aspects of constitutional reform. Early life Banks was born in Kent in June 1915. He was educated at Chat ...

(1915–2010), English political activist and writer *

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 *Sir

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 * John Bankes (judge) (1854–1947), English judge *

John Bankes (died 1772) John Bankes (died 1772) of Kingston Lacy, Dorset, was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1741. Bankes was the eldest son of John Bankes, MP of Kingston Lacy and Corfe Castle, and great-grandson of Sir John Bank ...

, British politician *

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 *

John Garnett Banks Sir John Garnett Banks (9 May 1889 – 2 May 1974) was a Scottish businessman and local politician who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1954 to 1957. Life He was born in Edinburgh on 9 May 1889 the son of Elizabeth Forrest Grieve and Joh ...

(1889–1974), Scottish businessman and local politician *

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 ...

* John W. Banks (1867–1958), justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court

Sport

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 *

John Banks (motorcyclist) John Banks (born 16 April 1944) is a British former professional motocross racer. He competed in the Motocross World Championships from 1963 to 1977. A four-time 500cc British national champion, Banks was twice runner-up in the 500cc motocross ...

, British motocross racer *

John Banks (baseball) John T. Banks Sr. (August 11, 1922 – December 6, 2011) was an American baseball player who pitched and played first base in the Negro leagues in the 1940s and 1950s. Banks began playing semi-professional baseball while still attending Camden ...

(1922–2011), Negro league baseball player *

John Banks (footballer) John Banks (14 June 1875 – January 1947) was an English footballer who played as a wing half for West Bromwich Albion, Manchester United, Plymouth Argyle, Leyton and Exeter City. He made 159 appearances in the Football League. Commonly known ...

(1875–1947), English footballer *

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

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 *

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 *

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 *

John Banks (drummer) The Merseybeats (sometimes written as the Mersey Beats) are an English band that emerged from the Liverpool Merseybeat scene in the early 1960s, performing at the Cavern Club along with the Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, and other similar a ...

(1943–1988), drummer for The Merseybeats *

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

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