Hanks
Hanks is a surname of English, or Dutch origin, meaning "son of Hankin" and may refer to:
- Carol Hanks Aucamp, American tennis player
- Colin Hanks, American actor
- Craig Hanks, American philosopher
- Ebenezer Hanks, Mormon pioneer and businessman
- Ephraim Hanks, prominent member of the 19th-century Latter Day Saint movement
- Ernest Hanks, English footballer
- Fletcher Hanks, cartoonist
- Henry Garber Hanks, American mineralogist
- James M. Hanks, member of the United States House of Representatives
- Jim Hanks, American voice-over artist and character actor
- Kerri Hanks, American soccer player
- Larry Hanks, American entomologist
- Lena Tracy Hanks, American botanist
- Merton Hanks, American former National Football League safety
- Mike Hanks, American college basketball coach
- Nancy Lincoln, maiden name Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln
- Nancy Hanks , second chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts
- Patrick Hanks, English lexicographer and corpus linguist
- Robert Lowery Hanks, American actor better known as Robert Lowery
- Sam Hanks, American race car driver
- Terrill Hanks, American football player
- Thomas C. Hanks, American seismologist
- Tom Hanks, American film actor
- William Hanks, American anthropologist and linguist
