Tonks is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Benjamin Tonks (1832-1884), New Zealand politician Dick Tonks, New Zealand rower Greig Tonks, Scottish rugby union player Henry Tonks (1862-1937), English surgeon and artist Horace Norman Vincent Tonks (1891-1959), Anglican bishop Les Tonks (1942–2017), English rugby league footballer of the 1960s and 1970s Lewi Tonks (1897-1971), American quantum physicist Oliver Samuel Tonks (1874-1953), American academic Rosemary Tonks, English author and poet Tony Tonks, English rugby player
