John Foster may refer to:

15th/16th/17th-century politicians

John Foster (MP for Bristol) John Foster may refer to: 15th/16th/17th-century politicians * John Foster (MP for Bristol), 15th-century MP for Bristol (UK Parliament constituency), Bristol * John Foster (died 1576), Member of Parliament for Winchester (UK Parliament constit ...

, 15th-century MP for

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* John Foster (died 1576), Member of Parliament for

Winchester Winchester (, ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government Districts of England, district, at the western end of the South Downs N ...

, Plympton Erle and Hindon * John Foster (by 1508-47/51), MP for Much Wenlock *

John Foster (died 1558) John Foster or Forster (by 1511 – 1558), of Bramfield, Hertfordshire, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Shaftesbury in 1555 and Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) ...

, MP for Shaftesbury and Hertfordshire * John Foster (printer) (1648–1681) was the earliest American engraver and the first Boston printer.

18th-century politicians

John Foster of Dunleer John Foster of Dunleer (born 1665-died 16 May 1747) was elected member to the Irish House of Commons for the constituency of ''Dunleer'', in County Louth. Biography He was the son of Colonel Anthony Foster of Dunleer, whose father Samuel had com ...

(died 1747), MP for Dunleer, grandfather of 1st Baron Oriel *

John Thomas Foster John Thomas Foster of Dunleer (1747 – 10 October 1796), was an Irish politician. Biography He was the son of Rev Thomas Foster, Rector of Dunleer and Dorothy née Burgh.Burke's Peerage (See Mssereene and Ferrard) Foster was elected member t ...

(1747–1796), MP *

John William Foster John William Foster (1745 – January 1809), of Rosy Park, was an Anglo-Irish volunteer and politician. He was the grandson of John Foster of Dunleer, MP for Dunleer and Elizabeth, née Fortescue.Burke's Peerage Foster was appointed High Sheri ...

(1745–1809), MP for Dunleer *

John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel PC (Ire) (1740 – 23 August 1828) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer who thrice served as Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland and also served as the last speaker of the Irish House of Commons. Early lif ...

(1740–1828), speaker of the Irish House of Commons *

John Foster (Dunleer MP) John Foster (1770 – April 1792), styled The Honourable, was an Anglo-Irish politician. Foster was the son of John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel and Margaretta, Viscountess Ferrard. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. Foste ...

(1770–1792), MP for Dunleer 1790–1792, son of 1st Baron Oriel

19th/20th-century politicians

John Leslie Foster John Leslie Foster, FRS (c. 1781 – 10 July 1842) was an Irish barrister, judge and Tory Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom Parliament. In 1830 he was appointed a Baron of the Court of Exchequer of Ireland. He was the son of ...

(1781–1842), Irish barrister, judge and member of parliament *

John Foster (Australian politician) John Leslie Fitzgerald Vesey Foster (19 August 1818 – 3 January 1900), also known as John Leslie Foster-Vesey-Fitzgerald, was a politician in colonial New South Wales and Victoria (Australia). Background Foster was the second son of the H ...

(1818–1900), politician in colonial New South Wales and Victoria *

John W. Foster John Watson Foster (March 2, 1836 – November 15, 1917) was an American diplomat, military officer, lawyer and journalist who was U.S. secretary of state from 1892 to 1893, under President Benjamin Harrison. He was influential as a lawyer in t ...

(1836–1917), American diplomat * John H. Foster (1862–1917), U.S. Representative from Indiana * Kenneth Foster (politician) (John Kenneth Foster, 1866–1930), British Conservative Party politician *

John Foster (MP for Northwich) Brigadier Sir John Galway Foster (21 February 1903 – 1 February 1982) was a British Conservative Party politician, British Army officer and legal scholar. He served as Member of Parliament for the Northwich constituency in Cheshire from ...

(1904–1982), British Conservative Party politician *

John Foster (Tasmanian politician) John Foster (1792–1875) was the eldest son of a Yorkshire farmer and landowner who came to Tasmania as a free settler in 1823, with his widowed mother, Jane, and youngest brother, Henry. The family received grants of land near Campbell Town wh ...

(1792–1875), member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council * John Foster (Lord Mayor of York) on

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*John Foster, candidate in the

1927 Manitoba general election The 1927 Manitoba general election was held on 28 June 1927 to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the province of Manitoba, Canada. The result was a second consecutive victory for Manitoba farmers, following its 1922 win. This was the ...

John Foster (Virginia politician) John Foster may refer to: 15th/16th/17th-century politicians * John Foster (MP for Bristol), 15th-century MP for Bristol * John Foster (died 1576), Member of Parliament for Winchester, Plympton Erle and Hindon * John Foster (by 1508-47/51), M ...

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Academics

John Stuart Foster John Stuart Foster (May 30, 1890 – September 9, 1964) was a Canadian physicist. Biography Born in Clarence, Nova Scotia, he completed his Ph.D. at Yale University with a dissertation on the first measurements of the Stark effect in Heliu ...

(1890–1944), Canadian physicist * John S. Foster Jr. (John Stuart Foster Jr., 1922–2025), American physicist and government official *

John Bellamy Foster John Bellamy Foster (born August 19, 1953) is an American professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of the ''Monthly Review''. He writes about political economy of capitalism and economic crisis, ecology and ecological crisis, ...

(born 1953), American Marxist scholar *

John Wells Foster John Wells Foster (March 4, 1815 – June 29, 1873) was an American geologist and archaeologist. Biography Foster was born March 4, 1815, in Petersham, Massachusetts where his father, Festus Foster was a minister. When Festus quit the ministry i ...

(1815–1873), American geologist *

John Foster (essayist) John Foster (1770–1843) was an English Baptist minister and essayist. The son of a weaver, born in Halifax, Yorkshire, and educated for the ministry at the Baptist college in Bristol, Foster served as a minister for a number of years. Becomin ...

(1770–1843), English Baptist minister and essayist *

John Foster (philosopher) John Foster (5 May 1941 – 1 January 2009), was a British philosopher and tutorial Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1966 to 2005 (and then a Emeritus Fellow until his death in 2009). He authored several books, including ''The Case for ...

(1941–2009), British philosopher *

John Foster (canon) John Foster (died 1773) was a Canon of Windsor from 1772 to 1773''Fasti Wyndesorienses'', May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and Headmaster of Eton College from 1765 to 1773. Career He w ...

(died 1773), headmaster of Eton College *

John Foster (paleontologist) John Russell Foster (born November 3, 1966) is an American paleontologist. Foster has worked with dinosaur remains from the Late Jurassic of the Colorado Plateau and Rocky Mountains, Foster is also working on Cambrian age trilobite faunas in the ...

(born 1966), American paleontologist *

John Wilson Foster John Wilson Foster (born 1942) is an Irish literary critic and cultural historian. Early life and career John Wilson (Jack) Foster was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the son of William Foster (draughtsman) and Gertrude Foster ...

(born 1942), Irish literary critic and cultural historian

Art and entertainment

* John Foster (British singer) (born 1960), British singer *

John Foster (Italian singer) Paolo Occhipinti (born 23 August 1939), best known as John Foster, is an Italian former singer and journalist. Life and career Born in Milan, Occhipinti had already a professional career as a musical critic and a journalist when he started sing ...

(born 1939), Italian singer *

John Foster (cartoonist) John Foster (November 27, 1886 – February 16, 1959), was an American animated film director. He is remembered for his direction in over a hundred films, including the Van Beuren Studios, Van Beuren Tom and Jerry (Van Beuren), Tom and Jerry ser ...

(1886–1959), also director * John Foster (printer) (1648–1681), American printer and engraver * John B. Foster (artist) (1865–1930), New England watercolorist *John Foster, a character in the television series '' Skins'' * John Foster (cinematographer), see

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* John Foster (composer) (1752–1822), English composer

Sports

* John Foster Jr. (sailor) (born 1963), American sport-sailor * John Foster Sr. (sailor) (born 1938), American sport-sailor & sled racer * John Foster (footballer) (born 1973), English footballer *

John Foster (baseball) John Norman Foster (born May 17, 1978) is an American former professional baseball pitcher and current coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves and Milwaukee Brewers. After retiring as a player, Foster coached summer ...

(born 1978), American baseball player * John Foster (cricketer) (born 1955), former English cricketer *

John B. Foster (baseball) John Buckingham Foster (July 16, 1863 – September 29, 1941) was an American baseball writer, ballclub officer and sports editor.Sprechman, Jordan; Shannon, Bill (1998). ''This Day in New York Sports''. Sports Publishing LLC. Born in New York Ci ...

(1863–1941), New York City baseball writer, sports editor, and ballclub officer * John Foster (sport shooter) (born 1936), American sports shooter * John Foster (water polo) (1931–2013), Australian water polo player * John Foster (hurdler) (born 1954), American hurdler, 1976 All-American for the

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team

Journalists

John Foster (Canadian journalist) John Foster may refer to: 15th/16th/17th-century politicians * John Foster (MP for Bristol), 15th-century MP for Bristol * John Foster (died 1576), Member of Parliament for Winchester, Plympton Erle and Hindon * John Foster (by 1508-47/51), ...

, see '' This Land'' * John Foster (BBC journalist) on '' Scottish Lobby''

Religious figures

John Foster (priest) John William Foster (5 August 1921–7 March 2000) was an eminent Anglican priest in the second half of the twentieth century. Foster was born in 1921 and served in the Leicestershire Yeomanry from 1939 to 1946. After studying at St Aidan's Col ...

(1921–2000), Anglican dean of Guernsey *John Foster, 18th century American clergyman, husband of

Hannah Webster Foster Hannah Webster Foster (September 10, 1758/59 – April 17, 1840) was an American novelist. Her epistolary novel, '' The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton'', was published anonymously in 1797. Although it sold well in the 1790s, it was n ...

* John Onesimus Foster (1833–1920), American Methodist minister * John Foster (Archdeacon of Huntingdon),

Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Wisbech The Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Wisbech is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Diocese of Ely. The archdeacon is responsible for some clergy discipline and pastoral care in the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon and Wisbech. History The Archdeaconry ...

Others

John G. Foster John Gray Foster (May 27, 1823 – September 2, 1874) was an American soldier. A career military officer in the United States Army and a Union general during the American Civil War, he served in North and South Carolina during the war. A recons ...

(1823–1874), United States Army officer and Union general during the American Civil War *John Foster, sound editor, see

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John Foster (trade unionist) John Foster may refer to: 15th/16th/17th-century politicians * John Foster (MP for Bristol), 15th-century MP for Bristol * John Foster (died 1576), Member of Parliament for Winchester, Plympton Erle and Hindon * John Foster (by 1508-47/51), M ...

, see

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John Foster (textile manufacturer) John Foster (1798–1879) was a British manufacturer of worsted cloth. He was the son of a colliery owner and farmer in Bradford, West Yorkshire. In 1819 he married Ruth Briggs, daughter of a landowner from Queensbury, on the outskirts of Bra ...

(1798–1879), British worsted cloth manufacturer * John Foster Sr. (engineer) (1758–1827), Liverpool based British engineer *

John Foster (environmentalist) John Foster, CBE (13 August 1920 – 6 July 2020) was a British environmentalist. He was the first head of the Peak District National Park, the United Kingdom's first national park. He was later the first head of the Countryside Commission for Scotl ...

(1920–2020), British environmentalist *

John Foster (architect, born 1786) :''This is about the architect. For his father, see John Foster, Sr.'' John Foster, Junior (1786 – 21 August 1846) was an English architect born and based in Liverpool. In succession to his father, he was Surveyor to the Corporation of L ...

(1786–1846), Liverpool based British architect, son of John Foster Sr. * John Foster (architect, born 1830) (1830–1880), Bristol based British architect * John H. Foster (physician) (1796–1874), American physician and member of boards of education *John Foster (died 1829), plantation owner, owned the slave

Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori Abdul Rahman Ibrahima ibn Sori (; 1762 – July 6, 1829) was a Fula prince and Amir (commander) from the Fouta Djallon region of Guinea, West Africa, who was captured and sold to slave traders and transported to the United States in 1788 during ...

John Foster (fireboat) John Foster may refer to: 15th/16th/17th-century politicians * John Foster (MP for Bristol), 15th-century MP for Bristol * John Foster (died 1576), Member of Parliament for Winchester, Plympton Erle and Hindon * John Foster (by 1508-47/51), M ...