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 Provided by Wikipedia