Bannister is a variant spelling of banister. However, it is a relatively common proper name as well.

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is or was Bannister include: *

Alan Bannister (cyclist) Alan Bannister MBE (3 November 1922 – 18 May 2007) was an English cyclist. Cycling career He was born in Manchester and won a silver medal, representing Great Britain, in the tandem event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, together ...

(1922–2007), British silver medallist at the 1948 Summer Olympics * Alan Bannister (born 1951), American retired professional baseball player * Alex Bannister (born 1979), American former football player * Arthur Bannister (1875–1958), English cricketer *

Billy Bannister William Bannister (1879 – 25 March 1942) was an English professional footballer who played as a defender for Burnley, Bolton Wanderers, Woolwich Arsenal and Leicester Fosse. Bannister also played at international level, earning two caps wi ...

(1879–1942), English professional footballer *

Brian Bannister Brian Patrick Bannister (born February 28, 1981) is an American director of pitching for the San Francisco Giants. He is a former professional baseball starting pitcher who played for the New York Mets and Kansas City Royals of Major League Bas ...

(born 1981), American baseball player *

Brown Bannister Elliott Brown Bannister III (born August 15, 1951) is an contemporary Christian music (CCM) producer and songwriter. Bannister released one album of his own, ''Talk to One Another'', in 1981 on NewPax Records. It was reissued on the Reunion Recor ...

, music producer and songwriter *

Bruce Bannister Bruce Ian Bannister (born 14 April 1947) is an English retired professional footballer who played as a striker, and is also a businessperson in sports shoe and apparel sales and distribution. Football career Born in Bradford, Bannister played ...

(born 1947), British retired professional football player * Calvin Bannister (born 1984), Canadian footballer *

Carys Bannister Carys Margaret Bannister (1935 – 20 August 2010) was the first female British neurosurgeon. Born in Brazil to Welsh parents, she moved to England as a teenager and trained in surgery after qualifying as a doctor. She spent most of her career a ...

(1935–2010), British neurosurgeon *

Charles Bannister Charles Bannister Comedian Charles Bannister (1738–1804) was an English actor, comedian and singer. Origins and debut Bannister was born in Gloucestershire. When he was seven his father moved to Deptford. He was possessed of 'a manly form, a ...

(1738–1804), British stage actor *

Charlie Bannister Charles Bannister (1879 – August 1952) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Manchester City and Lincoln City and in the Southern League for Swindon Town and Reading. A centre half, he was born in Burton upon Trent ...

(1879–1952), English footballer * Clive Bannister (born 1958), British, Chair Museum of London *

Drew Bannister Drew Bannister (born April 9, 1974) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman and current coach of the Springfield Thunderbirds in the American Hockey League. He played in the NHL for the Tampa Bay Lightning, Edmonton Oilers, Mighty ...

(born 1974), Canadian ice hockey player *

Edward Bannister Edward Alexander Bannister CMG KC (born 12 August 1942) is the former Commercial Court Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court based in the British Virgin Islands. He was appointed in 2009, and was the first ever person to hold the post ...

QC, British judge *

Edward Mitchell Bannister Edward Mitchell Bannister (November 2, 1828January 9, 1901) was an oil painter of the American Barbizon school. Born in Canada, he spent his adult life in New England in the United States. There, along with his wife Christiana Carteaux Bannist ...

(c.1828–1901), Canadian-American painter *

Ernest Bannister Ernest Bannister (born 1883; date of death unknown) was an English footballer who play one game in the Football League for Manchester City. He also spent time with Buxton, Preston North End, Port Vale, Darlington, Heart of Midlothian, and A ...

, English footballer * Floyd Bannister (born 1955), American former baseball player *

Freddy Bannister Freddy Bannister (3 December 1934 – 11 August 2019), sometimes written as Freddie Bannister, was a leading British concert promoter during the 1960s and 1970s, and was the founder of the Bath Festival of Blues 1969, the Bath Festival of Blues ...

, British concert promoter in the 1960s and 1970s *

Gary Bannister Gary Bannister (born 22 July 1960) is an English former professional Association football, footballer who played for Coventry City F.C., Coventry City (two spells), Sheffield Wednesday F.C., Sheffield Wednesday, Queens Park Rangers F.C., Queens ...

(born 1960), English former football player * Geoffrey Bannister (born 1946), English-American educator and geographer *

Grace Bannister Grace Bannister (''née'' Johnson; 1924–1986) was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland. She was the first female Lord Mayor of Belfast. Early life and education Bannister was born in the Ravenhill area of Belfast into a Protestant fami ...

(died 1986), Northern Ireland politician *

Harry Bannister Harry Bannister (September 29, 1889 – February 26, 1961) was an American stage, film and television actor, and theater producer and director. Biography Born in Holland, Michigan, Bannister began acting in movies and on Broadway in the 1920s ...

(1889–1961), American stage, film and television actor * Jack Bannister (1930–2016), English cricketer and sports reporter * Jack Bannister (footballer) (born 1942), English footballer *

Jarrod Bannister Jarrod Bannister (3 October 1984 – 8 February 2018) was an Australian track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. His personal best throw of 89.02 metres, achieved in 2008, is the Australian and Oceanian record. Career Bannist ...

(born 1984), Australian javelin thrower *

Jenny Bannister Jenny Bannister is an Australians, Australian fashion designer, based in Melbourne. Early life Bannister was born in 1954 in Mildura, Victoria to parents Owen and Peg. As a teenager she moved to Melbourne with her sister Wendy. Bannister studied ...

Australian fashion designer * Jim Bannister (born 1929), English footballer *

Jimmy Bannister James Bannister (20 September 1880 – 18 December 1953) was an English footballer. Bannister was purchased by Manchester United from Manchester City in 1906. He helped the club win the 1908 league championship. He left United in 1909 to go to ...

(1880–1953) English football player *

Jo Bannister Jo Bannister (born 31 July 1951 in Rochdale, Lancashire) is a British crime fiction novelist. Life and work She began her career as a journalist and rose to become editor of the '' County Down Spectator'' before resigning to devote all her tim ...

(born 1951), British crime fiction novelist * John Bannister (disambiguation) * Jordan Bannister (born 1982), Australian rules football umpire and former player *

Joseph Bannister Joseph Bannister (died 1687, first name occasionally George) was an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy. He is best known for defeating two Royal Navy warships in battle. History Bannister was captain of ...

, English pirate * Keith Bannister (footballer, born 1923), English former professional footballer * Keith Bannister (footballer, born 1930), English former professional footballer *

Ken Bannister Kenneth Darnell Bannister (born April 1, 1960) is a retired American professional basketball player, from Baltimore, Maryland. At 6' 9" tall he was a power forward-center. College career Bannister played college basketball at Trinidad State Junio ...

(born 1960), American retired professional basketball player * Matthew Bannister (born 1957), British media executive and broadcaster. *

Matthew Bannister (musician) Matthew Bannister (born 1962) is a Scottish-born New Zealand musician, journalist and academic. Originally from Dunblane in Scotland, he moved to New Zealand with his family when he was 17. Musical career Bannister had a stint as a teenager in ...

(born 1962), New Zealand musician, journalist, and academic *

Michael Bannister Texas are a Scottish alternative rock band from Glasgow. They were founded in 1986 by Johnny McElhone (formerly of the bands Altered Images and Hipsway) and Sharleen Spiteri on lead vocals. Texas made their performing debut in March 1988 at the ...

, Scottish musician *

Mike Bannister Mike Bannister (born May 1949) is an airline pilot. He is most famous as the Chief Pilot of British Airways' Concorde The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde () is a retired Franco-British supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by ...

(born 1949), former chief pilot of British Airways' Concorde fleet * Miriam Bannister (1817–1928), English-American supercentenarian * Neil Bannister (born 1973), English former cricketer * Neville Bannister (born 1937), English former footballer * Nonna Bannister (1927–2004), Soviet-born American author *

Paul Bannister Paul Francis Bannister (born 11 October 1947) is an English former footballer who played as a forward. He made 12 appearances in the Football League for Port Vale between 1965 and 1968, before spells in non-League football with Eastwood, Milto ...

(born 1947), English former footballer * Reggie Bannister (born 1945), American actor and musician *

Richard Bannister Hughes Richard Bannister Hughes Mills (1810-1875), known as Richard Bannister Hughes and also Ricardo Hughes, was a British expatriate businessman in Uruguay. Notable as a rancher and entrepreneur, Hughes helped to modernize Uruguayan agriculture. Orig ...

(1810-1875), British businessman, active in Uruguay *

Roger Bannister Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister (23 March 1929 – 3 March 2018) was an English neurologist and middle-distance athlete who ran the first sub-4-minute mile. At the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Bannister set a British record in the 1500 metres and ...

(1929–2018), British athlete, the first man to run a four-minute mile * Saxe Bannister (1790–1877), British-Australian lawyer and writer * Steve Bannister (born 1987), English rugby league player *

Thomas Bannister Thomas Bannister (1799–1874) was a soldier and explorer in Western Australia. He was born in Steyning, Sussex in 1799, and arrived in Western Australia in 1829, age 30, with the rank of Captain aboard the ''Atwick'' with 3 servants from Londo ...

(1799–1874), British-Australian soldier and explorer *

Trevor Bannister Trevor Gordon Bannister (14 August 193414 April 2011) was an English actor best known for having played the womanising junior salesman Mr Lucas in the sitcom ''Are You Being Served?'' from 1972 to 1979, and for his role as Toby Mulberry Smith i ...

(1934–2011), English actor *

Turpin Bannister Turpin Chambers Bannister (1 October 1904 – 15 March 1982) was one of the leading American architectural historians of his generation. A long-time professor at the University of Illinois and the University of Florida, he is best known for his w ...

(1904–1982), American architectural historian

Places

Bannister, Michigan Elba Township is a civil township of Gratiot County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,394 at the 2000 census. Communities *The village of Ashley is in the northeast corner of the township. *Bannister is an unincorporated comm ...

* Bannister, Missouri * North Bannister, Western Australia *

Bannister River Bannister River is a river in the South West region of Western Australia. The river rises to the east of North Bannister and flows in a southerly direction discharging into the Hotham River near Boddington. The river was named after Capta ...

, Western Australia

Ships

, British coaster previously named ''Empire Lundy''

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