Birks (surname)

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

• Anthony Birks (1941–2002), New Zealand Army officer, Chief of the General Staff and Chief of Defence Force
• Ashley Birks (born 1990), British speedway rider
• Charles Napier Birks (1844–1924), founder of South Australian department store Charles Birks & Co
• Cliff Birks (1910–1998), English football player
• Douglas Birks (1919–2004), English cricket player
• Frederick Birks (1894–1917), Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
• George Vause Birks (c. 1815–1858), medical doctor, founder of influential family in South Australia
• Gerald Birks (1894–1991), Canadian fighter ace in World War I
• Graham Birks (born 1942), English football player
• Henry Birks (1840–1928), Canadian businessman, founder of the jewelry store, Birks & Mayors
• Horace Birks (1897–1985), British Army officer who served during both the World Wars
• Jānis Birks (born 1956), Latvian politician, Mayor of Riga 2007–09
• Jocelynn Birks (born 1993), American volleyball player
• John B. Birks (1920–1979), British physicist and namesake for the Birks' law
• Laurie Birks (born 1928, date of death unknown), Australian boxer
• Lawrence Birks (1874–1924), Australian electrical engineer in New Zealand
• Len Birks (1896–1975), English football player
• Malcolm Birks (born 1975), English cricket player
• Melville Birks (1876–1924), South Australian medical practitioner
• Peter Birks (1941–2004), British legal scholar
• Ray Birks (1930–2008), Australian rugby player
• Rosetta Jane Birks (1856–1911), Australian social reformer and philanthropist
• Thomas Rawson Birks (1810–1883), theologian and controversialist at Oxford
• Walter Richard Birks (1886–1960), Australian agricultural scientist and headmaster

See also

• Birk (name)
• Birx (surname)
• Burks, surname
• Burkes, surname