Samuel Alston Banks (May 16, 1928 – September 12, 2000) was an American professor, theologist, pastor, and academic administrator.

[3] Banks had advocated in the early 1960s curricular changes to include human values in medical education.

[3] He attended Lakeland Senior High School and Florida Southern College.

[5] Banks spent only eight months at Richmond before resigning for health reasons.

He then took faculty and administrative positions at Eckerd College, where he remained until his retirement in 1995.