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

See also

• Hank (disambiguation)

Surname list

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