John Foster

15th/16th/17th-century politicians

• John Foster , 15th-century MP for Bristol
• John Foster , Member of Parliament for Winchester, Plympton Erle and Hindon
• John Foster , MP for Much Wenlock
• John Foster , MP for Shaftesbury and Hertfordshire
• John Foster was the earliest American engraver and the first Boston printer.

  18th-century politicians

• John Foster of Dunleer, MP for Dunleer, grandfather of 1st Baron Oriel
• John Thomas Foster, MP
• John William Foster, MP for Dunleer
• John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel, speaker of the Irish House of Commons
• John Foster , MP for Dunleer 1790–1792, son of 1st Baron Oriel

  19th/20th-century politicians

• John Leslie Foster, Irish barrister, judge and member of parliament
• John Foster , politician in colonial New South Wales and Victoria
• John W. Foster, American diplomat
• John H. Foster , U.S. Representative from Indiana
• Kenneth Foster , British Conservative Party politician
• John Foster , British Conservative Party politician
• John Foster , member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council
• John Foster on List of Lord Mayors of York
• John Foster, candidate in the 1927 Manitoba general election
• John Foster on List of mayors of Richmond, Virginia

  Academics

• John Stuart Foster, Canadian physicist
• John S. Foster Jr., American physicist and government official
• John Bellamy Foster, American Marxist scholar
• John Wells Foster, American geologist
• John Foster , English Baptist minister and essayist
• John Foster , British philosopher
• John Foster , headmaster of Eton College
• John Foster , American paleontologist
• John Wilson Foster, Irish literary critic and cultural historian

  Art and entertainment

• John Foster , British singer
• John Foster , Italian singer
• John Foster , also director
• John Foster , American printer and engraver
• John B. Foster , New England watercolorist
• John Foster, a character in the television series Skins
• John Foster , see Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography
• John Foster , English composer

  Sports

• John Foster Jr. , American sport-sailor
• John Foster Sr. , American sport-sailor & sled racer
• John Foster , English footballer
• John Foster , American baseball player
• John Foster , former English cricketer
• John B. Foster , New York City baseball writer, sports editor, and ballclub officer
• John Foster , American sports shooter
• John Foster , Australian water polo player
• John Foster , American hurdler, 1976 All-American for the Stanford Cardinal track and field team

  Journalists

• John Foster , see This Land
• John Foster on ''Scottish Lobby''

  Religious figures

• John Foster , Anglican dean of Guernsey
• John Foster, 18th century American clergyman, husband of Hannah Webster Foster
• John Onesimus Foster, American Methodist minister
• John Foster , Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Wisbech

  Others

• John G. Foster, United States Army officer and Union general during the American Civil War
• John Foster, sound editor, see BAFTA Award for Best Sound
• John Foster , see Jeremy Dear
• John Foster , British worsted cloth manufacturer
• John Foster Sr. , Liverpool based British engineer
• John Foster , British environmentalist
• John Foster , Liverpool based British architect, son of John Foster Sr.
• John Foster , Bristol based British architect
• John H. Foster , American physician and member of boards of education
• John Foster, plantation owner, owned the slave Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori
• John Foster , see MetalCraft Marine