Olive Banks (2 July 1923 – 14 September 2006) was an English professor at Leicester University who worked upon the sociology of education and the history of feminism.
[1] Banks was born in Enfield Highway, Middlesex, the eldest of two children of Herbert Alfred Davies and Jessie Louise (nee) Tebby.
She married Joseph Ambrose (Joe) Banks in June 1944 and they both entered the London School of Economics to study sociology.
[2] Her reputation as a leading scholar in her field was sealed with the publication of The Sociology of Education (1965).
[2] A posthumous review of her life and work, Olive Banks and the Collective Biography of British Feminism, was made by Gaby Weiner.