Bannerman is a patronymic Scottish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alexander Bannerman (1788–1864), British colonial governor
- Alick Bannerman (1854–1924), Australian Test cricketer
- Anne Bannerman (1765–1829), Scottish poet
- Celia Bannerman (born 1944), English actress
- Charles Bannerman (1851–1930), Australian cricketer, scorer of a century in the first Test match
- Christopher Bannerman, Canadian-born British academic, choreographer and dancer
- David Armitage Bannerman (1886–1979), British ornithologist
- Edmund Bannerman (1832–1903), journalist, newspaper proprietor and lawyer in the British colony of the Gold Coast; third son of James Bannerman
- Frances Bannerman (1855–1944), Canadian painter and poet
- Francis Bannerman VI (1851–1918), Irish-American Businessman, built Bannerman's Castle on Pollepel Island
- Helen Bannerman (1862–1946), British writer, author of Little Black Sambo
- Hugh Bannerman (1887–1917), New Zealand cricketer, journalist and soldier
- Ian Bannerman, Australian actor who portrayed Deadly Earnest on TEN-10 from 1966 to 1970
- James Bannerman (1790–1858), Fanti Governor of the Gold Coast, the son of a Fanti woman and a Scotsman
- James Bannerman (1807–1868), Free Church of Scotland theologian
- Manon Bannerman (born 2002), Swiss-Ghanaian social media influencer and member of global pop group KATSEYE
- Murray Bannerman (born 1957), Canadian ice-hockey goaltender
- Ronald Bannerman (1890–1978), New Zealand flying ace of World War I
- Major General William Burney Bannerman (1858–1924), Scottish military surgeon
- Yasmin Bannerman (born 1972), British actress