Bancroft may refer to:

People

  • Bancroft (surname)

Places

United States

  • Bancroft, Idaho, a city
  • Bancroft, Iowa, a city
  • Bancroft, Kentucky, a home rule-class city
  • Bancroft, Louisiana, an unincorporated area
  • Bancroft, Maine, a township
  • Bancroft, Michigan, a village
  • Bancroft, Minneapolis, Minnesota, a neighborhood
  • Bancroft, Missouri, an unincorporated community
  • Bancroft, Nebraska, a village
  • Bancroft, South Dakota, a town
  • Bancroft, West Virginia, a town
  • Bancroft, Wisconsin, a census-designated place
  • Bancroft County, Iowa, a former county
  • Bancroft Creek, a stream in Minnesota
  • Bancroft Township, Freeborn County, Minnesota
  • Bancroft Township, Cuming County, Nebraska

Elsewhere

  • Bancroft, Queensland, Australia, a locality in the North Burnett Region
  • Bancroft, Ontario, Canada, a town
  • Bancroft, Milton Keynes, UK, a district
  • former name of Chililabombwe, Copperbelt Province, Zambia, a town
  • Bancroft (crater), a crater on the Moon

Arts and entertainment

  • Bancroft (TV series), a 2017 British TV series
  • Bancroft Pons, a fictional character in the Solar Pons stories by August Derleth
  • George Bancroft, protagonist of the 1980 film Hangar 18
  • Bancroft Prize, an American literary award from Columbia University
  • Bancroft Gold Medal, a British acting award named after Sir Squire Bancroft, first president of RADA

Schools

  • Bancroft Middle School (Los Angeles, California), an American public middle school
  • Bancroft Middle School (San Leandro, California), an American public middle school
  • Bancroft School, an American private K-12 school in Worcester, Massachusetts
  • Bancroft School of Massage Therapy, an American trade school in Worcester, Massachusetts
  • Bancroft's School, a British independent school in Woodford Green, London

Ships

  • 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
  • Bancroft (motor vessel), a 1925 ship preserved in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States

Other uses

  • Bancroft Hall, a dormitory at the United States Naval Academy
  • Bancroft Hall, a dormitory at Phillips Exeter Academy
  • Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley, United States
  • Bancroft Mills, a factory in Wilmington, Delaware, United States
  • Bancroft Point, a real binary system where the components have equal saturation pressure and exhibit azeotropy
  • Bancroft PLLC, an American law firm