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