Hanks
# Hanks

Hanks is a surname of English, or Dutch origin, meaning "son of Hankin" and may refer to:

* Boo Hanks (1928–2016), American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer
* Carol Hanks Aucamp (born 1943), American tennis player
* Colin Hanks (born 1977), American actor
* Craig Hanks (born 1961), American philosopher
* Ephraim Hanks (1826–1896), prominent member of the 19th-century Latter Day Saint movement
* Ernest Hanks (1888–1965), English footballer
* Fletcher Hanks (1889–1976), cartoonist
* Henry Garber Hanks (1826–1907), American mineralogist
* James M. Hanks (1833–1909), member of the United States House of Representatives
* Jim Hanks (born 1961), American voice-over artist and character actor
* Kerri Hanks (born 1985), American soccer player
* Larry Hanks (born 1953), American entomologist
* Lena Tracy Hanks (1879–1944), American botanist
* Merton Hanks (born 1968), American former National Football League safety
* Mike Hanks (born 1952 or 1953), American college basketball coach
* Nancy Lincoln (1784–1818), maiden name Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln
* Nancy Hanks (art historian) (1927–1983), second chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts
* Patrick Hanks (born 1940), English lexicographer and corpus linguist
* Robert Lowery Hanks (1913–1971), American actor better known as Robert Lowery
* Ron Hanks, American politician
* Sam Hanks (1914–1994), American race car driver
* Terrill Hanks (born 1995), American football player
* Thomas C. Hanks, American seismologist
* Tom Hanks (born 1956), American film actor
* William Hanks (born 1952), American anthropologist and linguist
