Bohannan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Ambrose Bohannan, Virginia settler Barbara Bohannan-Sheppard (born 1950), American politician Brendan Bohannan, microbial and evolutionary biologist Charles G. Bohannan (1852–1934), mayor of South Norwalk, Connecticut (1897–1898, 1899–1901), son of John G. Christina Bohannan (born 1971), American engineer, legal scholar, and politician John G. Bohannan (1827–1897), Confederate Army colonel, State Representative from Matthews County, Virginia (1885–1886), father of Charles G. Laura Bohannan (1922–2002), American cultural anthropologist and author; wife of Paul Paul Bohannan (1920–2007), American anthropologist; husband of Laura R. LeFond Bohannan, founder of the Medical College of Virginia Thomas Bohannan (born 1955), American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer