John Forbes


John Forbes may refer to:

Science

  • John Forbes , English botanist
  • John Forbes , Scottish physician
  • John Ripley Forbes, American naturalist and conservationist

    Military

  • John Forbes , British general in the French and Indian War
  • John Forbes , Scottish general in the Portuguese service
  • John Forbes , British admiral and politician
  • John Morrison Forbes, British admiral

    Religion

  • John Forbes , Scottish Capuchin friar
  • John Forbes , Scottish minister and Gaelic translator
  • John Forbes , Scottish minister exiled by James VI and I
  • John Forbes , Scottish theologian; one of the six "Aberdeen doctors"
  • John Forbes Scottish mathematician and minister

    Politics and law

  • John Forbes , Scottish member of the British Parliament for Inverness-shire, 1715–1722
  • John Forbes, British Member of Parliament and East India Company director
  • John Forbes , Iowa State Representative
  • John Hay Forbes, Lord Medwyn, Scottish judge
  • John Murray Forbes , American diplomat
  • John W. Forbes II, American government official in Virginia

    Sports

  • John Forbes , South African cricketer
  • John Forbes , Scottish footballer
  • John Forbes , Australian Olympian sailor
  • John Forbes, 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 , British architect
  • John Forbes , 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