In general usage, the left bank of a river is the side to one's left while facing downstream. As a name, Left Bank may refer to:
- Rive Gauche, the left bank of the Seine in Paris; gauche means "left" in French
- Left Bank (Biscay), the left bank of the Nervión in Biscay, Spain
- Left Bank (Kiev), the left bank of the Dnieper in Kiev
- Left-bank Ukraine, a historical region in Ukraine
- Left Bank (Philadelphia), a river bank in Philadelphia which anomalously is situated on the left facing upstream
- Left Bank (Rhine), the western side of the river Rhine, a region historically contested between France and Germany.
- The Left Banke, a 1960s American pop group
- Rive Gauche Nightclub, a Parisian-themed nightclub in the River West District of Chicago
- A section of Bordeaux along the Gironde river known as the Médoc
