Forest (name)
Forest is both a French surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Forest Able, American basketball player
- Frederic de Forest Allen, American classical scholar
- Forest B. H. Brown, American botanist working on pteridophytes and spermatophytes
- Forest Barber, American racing driver from Fort Worth, Texas
- Forest Baskett, American venture capitalist, computer scientist, professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University
- Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer in hydraulics and ballistics
- Emmett Forest Branch, the 31st Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana
- George de Forest Brush, American painter and Georgist
- William Forest Crouch, American director and writer of film
- Forest Davis, American politician from the state of Iowa
- Forest Dewey Dodrill, doctor who performed the first successful open heart surgery
- Forest Etheredge, American educator and politician
- Forest Evashevski, American football player, coach, college athletics administrator
- Forest K. Ferguson, athlete and later a decorated officer in the U.S. Army
- Forest Firestone, American football player and coach
- Forest Fletcher, US track and field Olympic athlete, coach, athletic director
- Forest Flower (horse), American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare
- Forest Geyer, American football fullback
- Forest Harness, U.S. Representative from Indiana
- Forest Hays Jr., American politician in the state of Georgia
- Forest Hopkins, former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
- Forest City Joe, American blues musician mainly remembered as a harmonica player
- Forest Loudin, American football, basketball, and baseball coach
- Forest McNeir, American sport shooter who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics
- Forest Montgomery, American tennis player
- Forest Ray Moulton, American astronomer
- J. De Forest Richards, American football player and banker
- Forest Rohwer, American microbial ecologist, Professor of Biology at San Diego State University
- Forest Sale, American college basketball player at the University of Kentucky
- Forest D. Siefkin, judge of the United States Board of Tax Appeals
- Forest Sun, Americana singer-songwriter from San Francisco, California, United States
- Forest Vance, personal trainer and former American football player
- Forest Whitaker, American actor, producer and director
Surname
- Antonia Forest, pseudonym of Patricia Giulia Caulfield Kate Rubinstein, English writer of children's novels
- Autumn de Forest, American painter from Las Vegas, Nevada
- Carmen Forest, American former handball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Delphine Forest, French actress
- Denis Forest, Canadian character actor
- Earl Forest, American musician
- Emmelie de Forest, Danish singer and songwriter
- Erastus L. De Forest, American mathematician
- Éric Forest, Canadian Senator from Quebec
- Eva Forest, Spanish far-left activist, writer and prisoner
- Frank Forest, American opera singer
- Fred Forest, French new media artist
- George Beach de Forest Jr., American capitalist, bibliophile and art collector
- Gérard La Forest, puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Green Forest, American-bred French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire
- Henry S. De Forest, U.S. Representative from New York
- Jacques Forest, French carcinologist
- James J. F. Forest, author and a professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Jean Forest, OC, Canadian Senator
- Jean-Baptiste Forest, French landscape painter
- Jean-Claude Forest, French comic book author, creator of Barbarella
- Jean-Marie Forest Modena was a general of the French Revolution
- Jean Kurt Forest, German violinist and violist, Kapellmeister and composer
- Jessé de Forest, leader of a group of Walloon Huguenots fleeing religious persecution
- Jim Forest, American writer, lay theologian, educator, peace activist
- Joanna Forest, opera crossover soprano singer
- John Anthony Forest, French-born clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church
- John de Forest, English amateur golfer
- John Forest, English Roman Catholic martyr and friar
- John William De Forest, American soldier and writer
- Karl Forest, Austrian actor
- Lee de Forest, American inventor with over 180 patents to his credit
- Léonard Forest, Acadian filmmaker, poet and essayist
- Lockwood de Forest, American painter, interior designer and furniture designer
- Ludger Forest (L'Assomption MLA), physician and political figure in Quebec
- Ludger Forest (Sherbrooke MLA), dentist and political figure in Quebec
- Luigi De La Forest, Italian-French painter, who was active in Modena
- Marian de Forest, American journalist, playwright, founder of Zonta
- Mark Forest, American actor and bodybuilder
- Maurice de Forest, early motor racing driver, aviator and Liberal politician in the UK
- Michael Forest, American actor who provides the voices for many animated titles
- Mickaël Forest, French rugby union footballer
- Patsy De Forest, American actress of the silent cinema era who performed on the stage since childhood
- Philippe Forest, French author and professor of literature
- Robert E. De Forest, Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut
- Robert Forest (cyclist), former French professional cyclist
- Roy De Forest, American painter
- Viviane Forest, Canadian multi-sport Paralympic medallist
- Yves Forest, QC, Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada
Fictional characters
- Forest Law (Tekken), a playable character in Namco Bandai's Tekken fighting game franchise