Bancroft (surname)

Bancroft is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• The Bancroft family, previous owners of Dow Jones & Company
• Aaron Bancroft (1755–1839), Colonial American clergyman and Revolutionary War soldier
• Ann Bancroft (born 1955), American explorer
• Anne Bancroft (1931–2005), American actress
• Billy Bancroft (1871–1959), Welsh international rugby union player and county cricketer
• Cam Bancroft (born 1992), Australian cricketer
• Cameron Bancroft (born 1967), Canadian actor
• Dave Bancroft (1891–1972), American baseball player and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
• Edward Bancroft (1744–1821), American double agent in the American Revolutionary War
• Effie Bancroft (1839-1921), English actress and theatre manager
• Frederick Bancroft (1855–1929), Canadian educator
• George Bancroft (1800–1891), American historian, statesman, and Secretary of the Navy (1845–1846)
• George Bancroft (actor) (1882–1956), American actor
• H. Hugh Bancroft (1904–1988), British organist and composer
• Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832–1918), American historian and ethnologist
• Ian Bancroft, Baron Bancroft (1922-1996), British civil servant
• Jack Bancroft (1879–1942), Welsh international rugby union player and county cricketer
• Jessie Hubbell Bancroft (1867-1952), American educator, a pioneer of physical education
• John Bancroft (bishop) (1574–1640), bishop of Oxford
• John Bancroft (dramatist) (died 1696), English dramatist
• John Bancroft (architect) (1928–2011), British architect
• John Bancroft (sexologist) (born 1936), American physician
• John Bancroft (businessman) (21st century), British businessman
• Joseph Bancroft (1836-1894), English-born Australian surgeon and parasitologist
• Mary Bancroft (1903-1997), American novelist and spy
• G. Michael Bancroft (born 1942), Canadian chemist and synchrotron scientist
• Natalie Bancroft (born circa 1980), American businesswoman.
• Richard Bancroft (1544–1610), English clergyman and Archbishop of Canterbury (1604–1610)
• Squire Bancroft (1841–1926), English actor and manager
• Stephen H. Bancroft, American theologian and educator
• Thomas Bancroft (poet) (c. 1596–1658), a 17th-century English poet.
• Thomas Bancroft (MP) (died 1636), English MP for Castle Rising
• Thomas Bancroft (priest) (1756–1811), English Anglican vicar of Bolton-le-Moors
• Tom Bancroft (born 1967), British jazz drummer and composer
• Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1867–1953), American physical chemist