Let's clear the air real quick: not many of the robbers on this list are going to be based on real people. But for every rule, there's an exception, and Captain Andre Stander is it. Thomas Jane starred in Stander, a 2003 biopic about his life, and if you haven't seen it you're in for a master class in bank robbery. Stander got away with robbing nearly 30 South African banks throughout the 1980s with one weird trick: he was a cop. Donning a disguise, he would rob banks on his lunch break, and then come back with other cops to investigate the crime. That's badass.