John Banks

John Banks may refer to:

  • Sir John Banks, 1st Baronet (1627–1699), English merchant and Member of Parliament
  • John Banks (playwright) (died 1706)
  • John Banks (East India Company officer) (1811–1857)
  • John Banks (U.S. politician) (1793–1864)
  • John Banks (activist) (born 1915), English political activist and writer
  • John Banks (New Zealand politician) (born 1946)
  • John Banks (motorcyclist)
  • Johnny Banks (born 1861), an American boxer
  • John Gray Banks (1888–1961), a politician in Canada

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    “Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He’ll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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    —William Gibson (b. 1948)