John Foster


John Foster may refer to:

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