title: Hanks
text: # 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
  