Foster may refer to:

People

Foster (surname) In the 2010 United States Census, Foster ranked #99 in surname popularity. Notable people with the surname "Foster" include A *A. Lawrence Foster (1802–1877), American politician *Abiel Foster (1735–1806), American religious leader and pol ...

Foster Brooks Foster Murrell Brooks (May 11, 1912 – December 20, 2001) was an American actor and comedian best known for his portrayal of a lovable drunk in nightclub performances and television programs. Early life Brooks was born in Louisville, Kentuck ...

(1912–2001), American actor *

Foster Moreau Foster Moreau (born May 6, 1997) is an American professional football tight end for the New Orleans Saints in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the LSU Tigers, and played for the Las Vegas Raiders from 2019 to ...

(born 1997), American football player *

Foster Sarell Foster Dane Sarell (born August 28, 1998) is an American professional football offensive tackle for the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Stanford Cardinal and signed with the Baltimo ...

(born 1998), American football player *

John Foster Dulles John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as United States secretary of state under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until his resignation in 1959. A member of the ...

(1888–1959), American diplomat and politician * Sterling Foster Black (1924–1996), American lawyer * Caroline E. Foster, New Zealand law professor *

Jodie Foster Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress and filmmaker. Foster started her career as a child actor before establishing herself as leading actress in film. She has received List of awards and nominations re ...

(born 1962), American actor

Places

;Australia *

Foster, Victoria Foster is a dairying and grazing town south-east of Melbourne on the South Gippsland Highway in Victoria, Australia. At the Foster had a population of 1,164. It is about north of the Gippsland coastline which includes Shallow Inlet, Corn ...

;Canada *

Foster, Quebec The Town of Brome Lake (officially Ville de Lac-Brome) is a town in southern Quebec, Canada. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 5,609. Tourism is a major industry in the village of Knowlton because of skiing in the winter, lake activ ...

, a village, now part of the town of Brome Lake ;United Kingdom *

Foster Mill Station Road is a road in southeast Cambridge, England.Station Area Conservation Appraisal', Quality Built Environments (QuBE), prepared for Cambridge City Council. June 2004. It leads from a junction with traffic lights on Hills Road ( A130 ...

, in Cambridge, England ;United States *

Foster (CTA) Foster is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, on the Purple Line in Evanston, Illinois. It is located at 900 Foster Street (directional coordinates 2000 north, 900 west), just a few blocks west of Northwestern University' ...

, elevated transit station in Evanston, Illinois, USA *

Foster, California (disambiguation) Foster, California may refer to: * Foster, San Diego County, California * Foster, Siskiyou County, California * Foster Bar, California *Foster City, California Foster City is a master-planned city located in San Mateo County, California, Uni ...

Foster, San Diego County, California Foster was a settlement in east San Diego County, California San Diego County (), officially the County of San Diego, is a county (United States), county in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of California, north to its Mexico-United St ...

Foster, Indiana Foster is a small unincorporated community in Mound Township, Warren County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. History Foster was platted April 25, 1893 on land donated by William R. Foster, an early settler. At one time the town had a post office ...

Foster, Kentucky Foster (also known as Fosters) is an unincorporated community located in Bracken County, Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern r ...

* Foster, Washtenaw County, Michigan *

Foster, Minnesota Foster is an unincorporated community in Foster Township, Big Stone, Minnesota, United States. History Foster was plat In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of l ...

Foster, Missouri Foster is a village in Bates County, Missouri, and part of the Kansas City metropolitan area within the United States. The population was 76 at the 2020 census. History A post office called Foster has been in operation since 1883. The village w ...

Foster, Nebraska Foster is a village in Pierce County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Norfolk, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 51 at the 2010 census. History A post office was established in Foster in 1886, and remained ...

* Foster, Oklahoma *

Foster, Oregon Foster is an unincorporated community partly within the city of Sweet Home in Linn County, Oregon. It is located on the western end of the Foster Reservoir. A post office named Foster serves ZIP code 97345, which serves areas beyond the Sweet ...

Foster, Rhode Island Foster is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 4,469 at the 2020 census. History Foster was originally settled in the 17th century by British colonists as a farming community. In the year 1662, Will ...

Foster Township, Michigan Foster Township is a civil township of Ogemaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 788 at the 2020 census. Communities *Damon is an unincorporated community located at . It is a former lumbering community that was establi ...

Foster, Wisconsin (disambiguation) Foster is the name of two communities in Wisconsin *Foster, Clark County, Wisconsin, a town *Foster, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin Foster is an unincorporated community in the town of Clear Creek in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, United States. ...

Foster, Clark County, Wisconsin Foster is a town in Clark County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 95 at the 2010 census, unchanged from the 2000 census. Geography The town of Foster is located along the western edge of Clark County and is bordered to the w ...

, a town **

Foster, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin Foster is an unincorporated community in the town of Clear Creek in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, United States. It lies approximately 9 miles south-southwest of Fall Creek, 7 miles southeast of Cleghorn, and 6 miles northwest of Osseo. Loca ...

, an unincorporated community *

Foster City, California Foster City is a master-planned city located in San Mateo County, California, United States. Foster City is sometimes considered to be part of Silicon Valley for its local industry and its proximity to Silicon Valley cities. There are many n ...

Foster Township (disambiguation) Foster Township may refer to: * Foster Township, Randolph County, Arkansas, in Randolph County, Arkansas * Foster Township, Madison County, Illinois * Foster Township, Marion County, Illinois * Foster Township, Michigan * Foster Township, ...

Child care

Foster care Foster care is a system in which a minor has been placed into a ward, group home ( residential child care community or treatment centre), or private home of a state- certified caregiver, referred to as a "foster parent", or with a family mem ...

, the modern system of placing children in state custody in the homes of temporary caregivers *

Fosterage Fosterage, the practice of a family bringing up a child not their own, differs from adoption in that the child's parents, not the foster-parents, remain the acknowledged parents. In many modern western societies foster care can be organised by ...

, the sometimes historical practice of children being raised by families not their own

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

Foster Foster may refer to: People * Foster (surname) * Foster Brooks (1912–2001), American actor * Foster Moreau (born 1997), American football player * Foster Sarell (born 1998), American football player * John Foster Dulles (1888–1959), America ...

, a dog on ''General Hospital'' from 1994 to 1998 * Foster, one of

The Fuzzpaws The Fuzzpaws are a group of seven puppets which co-hosted the Treehouse programming block on YTV in the 1990s. When the block was cancelled in 1998 in favor of an unhosted block called YTV Jr., the Fuzzpaws got their own TV series and a marketed ...

, puppets on the Canadian channel YTV * Court Foster, a character in the film ''

The Man in the Moon In many cultures, several pareidolic images of a human face, head or body are recognized in the disc of the full moon; they are generally known as the Man in the Moon. The images are based on the appearance of the dark areas (known as lunar m ...

'' (1991) *Madame Foster and Francis "Frankie" Foster, recurring characters of the animated show ''

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends ''Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends'' is an American animated television series created by Craig McCracken for Cartoon Network. It was produced by Cartoon Network Studios as the network's first show animated primarily with Adobe Flash, whic ...

''. The latter being the former's granddaughter

Literature

* "Foster" (short story), by Claire Keegan, 2010 * '' Ellen Foster'', 1987 novel by American author Kaye Gibbons

Other art, entertainment, and media

* ''Foster'' (film), a 2011 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Jonathan Newman *

Foster the People Foster the People is an American indie pop band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 2009. Its members include founder and frontman Mark Foster (musician), Mark Foster and keyboardist Isom Innis. Foster founded the band in 2009 after spending ...

, an American rock band named after its lead singer Mark Foster * ''

'', animated television series

Brands and companies

Foster and Partners Foster and Partners (also Foster + Partners) is a British international architecture firm with its headquarters in London, England. It was founded in 1967 by British architect and designer Norman Foster. The firm has been involved in the desig ...

, an architectural firm *

Foster, Rastrick and Company Foster, Rastrick and Company was one of the pioneering steam locomotive manufacturing companies of England. It was based in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, now West Midlands. James Foster (ironmaster), James Foster, an ironmaster, and John Urpeth Ra ...

, British steam locomotive manufacturer *

Foster's Group Foster's Group Pty. Ltd. was an Australian beer group with interests in brewing and soft drinks, known for Foster's Lager, now called Carlton & United Breweries since the company was renamed in 2011. Foster's was founded in 1888 in Melbourne, ...

, Australian beer producer **

Foster's Lager Foster's Lager is an internationally distributed brand of Australian lager. It is owned by the Japanese brewing group Asahi Group Holdings, and is brewed under licence in a number of countries, including its biggest market, the UK, where t ...

* William Foster & Co., British agricultural machinery company

Science and technology

* Foster's reactance theorem, theorem in electrical engineering *

Foster's rule Foster's rule, also known as the island rule or the island effect, is an ecogeographical rule in evolutionary biology stating that members of a species get smaller or bigger depending on the resources available in the environment. For example, i ...

(island rule), principle in evolutionary biology *

Foster's theorem In probability theory, Foster's theorem, named after Gordon Foster, is used to draw conclusions about the positive recurrence of Markov chains with countable state spaces. It uses the fact that positive recurrent Markov chains exhibit a notion ...

, theorem in probability theory * Foster, a 6-row malting

barley Barley (), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. It was one of the first cultivated grains; it was domesticated in the Fertile Crescent around 9000 BC, giving it nonshattering spikele ...

variety *

Foster (crater) Foster is a small lunar impact crater that lies to the southeast of the larger crater Joule, on the far side of the Moon. The rim of Foster is slightly eroded, and the narrow inner walls slope directly down to the relatively dark interior floor. ...

, a small lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon * Fostering (falconry), bird breeding technique for its introduction into nature

Food

* Bananas Foster, a dessert of bananas and vanilla ice cream, with a caramelized liquor-based sauce.