Bancroft
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Bancroft may refer to:
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[edit] People
- Ann Bancroft, an American explorer
- Anne Bancroft, an American actress
- Dave Bancroft, an American baseball player and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
- Edward Bancroft, a double agent in the American Revolutionary War
- George Bancroft, an American historian and politician
- George Bancroft (actor), an American actor
- H. Hugh Bancroft, British organist and composer
- Hubert Howe Bancroft, American historian and ethnologist
- Richard Bancroft, an ex-Archbishop of Canterbury
- Wilder Dwight Bancroft, an American physical chemist
- Bancroft family, previous owners of Dow Jones & Company
[edit] Animals
- Bancroft (horse), a thoroughbred race horse which ran in the 1880 Kentucky Derby
[edit] Place names
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United States:
- Bancroft, Idaho
- Bancroft, Iowa
- Bancroft, Kentucky
- Bancroft, Maine
- Bancroft, Michigan
- Bancroft, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Bancroft, Nebraska
- Bancroft, South Dakota
- Bancroft, West Virginia
[edit] Schools
- Bancroft Middle School (Los Angeles)
- Bancroft Middle School (Long Beach, California)
- Bancroft School, a K-12 private school in Worcester, Massachusetts
- Bancroft School of Massage Therapy
- Bancroft's School, an independent school in Woodford Green, London.
- Bancroft Elementary School, Walnut Creek CA
[edit] Other
- Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, named in Hubert Howe Bancroft's honor and started with his collection
- Bancroft (crater), a crater on the Moon
- Bancroft Mills, a factory in Wilmington, Delaware
- Bancroft Prize, American literary award from Columbia University

