William Foster


William Foster may refer to:

People

Arts

  • Will Foster, keyboardist for English rock band The Tears
  • William C. Foster, pioneer of cinematography
  • William D. Foster, African American film producer
  • William Gilbert Foster, British painter

    Military

  • William Foster , British Home Guard officer, awarded the George Cross, 1942
  • William Foster , American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
  • William A. Foster, United States Marine, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in action during World War II
  • William Foster MacNeece Foster, Royal Air Force officer

    Politics

  • William Foster , member of NSW Legislative Assembly
  • William Foster , member of the NSW Legislative Council
  • William John Foster, member of the NSW Legislative Council & Legislative Council, Attorney-General and Supreme Court judge
  • William Foster, New Hampshire politician
  • William Foster , New York politician
  • William Foster , British Labour Party MP for Wigan, 1942–1947
  • William Henry Foster , MP for Lancaster 1895–1900
  • William Henry Foster , British Member of Parliament for Bridgnorth 1870–1885
  • William Orme Foster, British Whig MP for South Staffordshire, 1857–1868
  • William W. Foster, Pennsylvania politician
  • William Z. Foster, Chairman of the Communist Party USA

    Religion

  • William Foster , Irish bishop
  • William Foster , English divine

    Sport

  • William Foster , English cricketer
  • William Foster , Scottish cricketer
  • William Foster , British Olympic freestyle swimmer
  • William Foster, English footballer

    Other

  • William Foster , British historiographer and Superintendent of Records at the India office
  • William Foster , architect in Iowa, United States
  • William Chapman Foster, American businessman and government official
  • William Dewey Foster, American architect, designer of post offices and government buildings
  • William H. Foster, British-born American labor union leader
  • William P. Foster, creator of the Florida A&M University Marching 100 marching band
  • William P. Foster, American jurist from Virginia
  • William Trufant Foster, United States educator and economist, first president of Reed College
  • William Wasbrough Foster, Canadian mountaineer, politician, business man, and chief constable
  • William Foster , British architect
  • William Alexander Foster, Canadian barrister and essayist
  • William Barclay Foster, father of Stephen Foster and businessman
  • William E. Foster, American librarian and author
  • William Foster, captain of the Clotilda and last person to have imported slaves from Africa to the United States

    Organizations

  • William Foster & Co. Ltd, an agricultural machinery company, which built the first tanks
  • William Foster Elementary School in Garfield Heights, Ohio named for William A. Foster, US. Marine

    Fiction

  • William Foster, a character portrayed by Michael Douglas in the 1993 movie Falling Down
  • William Foster, a character portrayed by Keanu Reeves in the 2018 movie ''Replicas''