Bancroft

Bancroft may refer to:

People

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Jack Bancroft (1879–1942), Welsh international rugby union player and county cricketer
• Milton Herbert Bancroft (1867–1947), American Painter
• Richard Bancroft (1544–1610), English clergyman and Archbishop of Canterbury (1604–1610)
• Squire Bancroft (1841–1926), English actor and manager
• Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1867–1953), American physical chemist

Places

United Kingdom:

• Bancroft, Milton Keynes

Canada:

• Bancroft, Ontario

United States:

• Bancroft, California
• Bancroft, Idaho
• Bancroft, Iowa
• Bancroft, Kentucky
• Bancroft, Maine
• Bancroft, Michigan
• Bancroft, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Bancroft, Nebraska
• Bancroft, South Dakota
• Bancroft, West Virginia
• Bancroft, Wisconsin
• Bancroft Township (disambiguation) (multiple places)

Animals

• Bancroft (horse), thoroughbred race horse which ran in the 1880 Kentucky Derby

Literature

• Bancroft Pons, a fictional character in the Solar Pons stories by August Derleth
• Bancroft Prize, an American literary award from Columbia University

Schools

• Bancroft Elementary, a public pre K-6 elementary school located in Omaha, Nebraska, in the United States
• Bancroft Middle School (Los Angeles, California), a public middle school located in Los Angeles, California, in the United States
• Bancroft Middle School (San Leandro, California), a public middle school located in San Leandro, California, in the United States
• Bancroft's School, an independent school in Woodford Green, London, in the United Kingdom
• Bancroft School, a private K-12 school in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the United States
• Bancroft School of Massage Therapy in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the United States
• Bancroft Elementary School a public elementary school located in Montreal, Quebec in Canada

Ships

• Bancroft (motor vessel), a 1925 ship preserved in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States
• USCS Bancroft, a schooner in commission as a survey ship in the United States Coast Survey from 1846 to 1862
• USS Bancroft, the name of more than one United States Navy ship
• USS George Bancroft (SSBN-643), a United States Navy fleet ballistic missile submarine in commission from 1966 to 1993

Other

• Bancroft (crater), a crater on the Moon
• Bancroft Hall, dormitory at the United States Naval Academy
• Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley in Berkeley, California, in the United States, named in Hubert Howe Bancroft's honor and started with his collection
• Bancroft Mills, a factory in Wilmington, Delaware, in the United States
• Bancroft Point, a real binary system where the components have equal saturation pressure and exhibit azeotropy