John Forbes
John Forbes may refer to:
Science
- John Forbes (botanist), English botanist
- John Forbes (physician), Scottish physician
- John Ripley Forbes, American naturalist and conservationist
Military
- John Forbes (British Army officer), British general in the French and Indian War
- John Forbes (Portuguese general), Scottish general in the Portuguese service
- John Forbes (Royal Navy officer), British admiral and politician
- John Morrison Forbes, British admiral
Religion
- John Forbes (friar), Scottish Capuchin friar
- John Forbes (Gaelic scholar), Scottish minister and Gaelic translator
- John Forbes (Alford minister), Scottish minister exiled by James VI and I
- John Forbes (theologian, born 1593), Scottish theologian; one of the six "Aberdeen doctors"
- John Forbes (minister of St Paul's, Glasgow) Scottish mathematician and minister
Politics and law
- John Forbes (died 1734), Scottish member of the British Parliament for Inverness-shire, 1715–1722
- John Forbes (1801–1840), British Member of Parliament and East India Company director
- John Forbes (Iowa politician), Iowa State Representative
- John Hay Forbes, Lord Medwyn, Scottish judge
- John Murray Forbes (diplomat), American diplomat
- John W. Forbes II, American government official in Virginia
Sports
- John Forbes (cricketer), South African cricketer
- John Forbes (footballer), Scottish footballer
- John Forbes (sailor), Australian Olympian sailor
- John Forbes (rugby union), Scottish international rugby union player
Business
- John Forbes and Company, the British firm of John Forbes and his brother Thomas, a trading company active in the southeastern United States and India, from 1804 to 1847
- John Murray Forbes, American banker and railroad president
- John Malcolm Forbes, American businessman, yachtsman and horseman
Other people
- John Forbes (architect), British architect
- John Forbes (poet), Australian poet
- John Forbes, 6th Lord Forbes, Scottish landowner
- John Forbes, 8th Lord Forbes, Scottish aristocrat
- John J. Forbes, American mining engineer
- John Stuart Hepburn Forbes, Scottish baronet, landowner, advocate and agriculturalist