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

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