Foster (surname)

It may refer to:

• Abby Kelley Foster, American abolitionist
• Abiel Foster (1735–1806), American religious leader and politician
• Al Foster, American jazz drummer
• Alan Dean Foster (born 1946), American writer
• Amy Foster, (born 1992), British actor
• Andrew Foster, one of several people, including:
• Andrew Foster (1870–1956), Canadian politician
• Andrew Foster (educator) (1925–1987), American promoter of schools for the deaf
• Andrew Foster (1972), English tennis player
• Andrew Foster (Australian rules footballer) (1985), Fremantle Dockers player
• Andrew Foster-Williams, British classical singer
• Arlene Foster, Northern Ireland politician
• Audrey Hylton-Foster, Baroness Hylton-Foster, British life peer
• Barry Foster, one of several people, including:
• Barry Foster (1927–2002), British actor
• Barry Foster (1968), American football player
• Ben Foster, one of several people, including:
• Ben Foster (1980), American actor
• Ben Foster (1983), English footballer
• Bill Foster, one of several people, including:
• Bill Foster (1904–1978), Negro League baseball player.
• Bill "The Fox" Foster (1932–2000), entertainer, self-proclaimed "World's Fastest Beer Drinker", and band leader on The Man Show
• Bill Foster (1936), college basketball coach.
• Bill Foster (1955), United States Representative
• Blake Foster, American actor
• Bob Foster (born 1938), American boxer
• Brendan Foster (born 1948), British runner
• Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Jamaican hurdler
• Brodie Foster Hubbard (1978), singer/songwriter/guitarist
• Carey Foster (1835–1919) English chemist and physicist
• Cecil Foster, Canadian writer
• Charles Foster, one of several people including
• Charles Foster (1828–1904), a U.S. Republican politician from Ohio
• Charles Foster (1923), British-born Canadian writer
• Charles Foster (1936), announcer for Granada television
• Christopher Foster, English cricketer
• Clement le Neve Foster, British geologist
• Cody Foster, American porn star
• Danny Foster, British musician
• Dave Foster, American drummer
• David Foster, one of several people, including:
• David Foster (born 1949), Canadian composer, musician, and producer
• David Foster (1957), Australian champion woodcutter
• Denzil Foster, of record producers Foster & McElroy
• David Kirby Foster, Baptist minister and community leader from Missouri
• Derek Foster, British politician
• DeShaun Foster (born 1980), American football player
• Doctor Foster, nursery rhyme character
• Don Foster, British politician
• Donald W. Foster, American Professor of English and a linguistic/literary sleuth
• Dwight Foster, one of several people, including:
• Dwight Foster (1757–1823), American politician
• Dwight Foster (born 1957), American hockey player
• Edward Foster, British soldier
• Ephraim H. Foster, American politician
• Ezola B. Foster, American activist
• Fiona Foster, British television journalist
• Florence Foster, American soprano Florence Foster Jenkins
• Frank Foster, one of several people, including:
• Frank Hugh Foster (1851–1935), American Ph. D., D.D., and Congregational pastor
• Frank Keys Foster (1854–1909), American labor leader
• Frank William Foster (1887–1963), British RAF officer
• Frank Rowbotham Foster (1889–1958), English cricket player
• Frank Foster (1928), American jazz saxophonist
• Fred Foster, American songwriter
• George Foster, one of several people, including:
• George Eulas Foster (1847–1931), Canadian politician
• George Foster (born 1948), U.S. baseball player
• George Foster (born 1980), American football player
• Gloria Foster, American actress
• Greg Foster, one of several people including
• Greg Foster, American basketball player
• Greg Foster, American hurdler
• Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, American academic
• Hal Foster, one of several people, including:
• Hal Foster (1892–1982), comic strip creator
• Hal Foster, American art critic
• Hannah Webster Foster, American novelist
• Harry Hylton-Foster, British politician
• Henry Foster, one of several people, including:
• Henry Foster (1796–1831; fl. 1820s), British soldier & scientist
• Henry A. Foster (1800–1889), American politician
• Henry Foster, American physician
• Hunter Foster, American entertainer
• Ian Foster, grid computing pioneer
• Israel Moore Foster, American politician
• Ivan Foster, Northern Ireland Presbyterian minister and politician
• Jack Foster (1932–2004), New Zealand long-distance runner
• James Foster, one of several people, including:
• James Foster (1786–1853), English entrepreneur
• James Foster (1905–1969), Scottish-born Canadian hockey player
• James C. Foster (fl. 1976–), American entrepreneur
• James Foster (1980), English cricketer
• Jane Foster, alleged Soviet spy
• Jeanne Robert Foster, American poet
• Jeff Foster, American basketball player
• Jim Foster, Arena Football League founder
• Jodie Foster (born 1962), US actress
• John Foster, one of several people, including:
• John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel (1740–1828), English Baron
• John Foster Snr. (1758–1827), British architect
• John Foster Jr. (1786–1846), British architect
• John Foster (essayist) (1770–1843), English essayist
• John Leslie Foster (1781–1842;), Irish politician
• John Wells Foster (1815–1873), American geologist
• John G. Foster (1823–1874), American soldier
• John W. Foster (1836–1917), American diplomat
• John Bellamy Foster (fl. 1982–), American sociologist
• John Foster (1978), American baseball player
• Jon Foster, American actor
• Jon Foster, American illustrator
• Josephine Foster, American musician
• Juliette Foster, British television journalist
• Karen Foster, American model and actress
• Kimberly Foster, American actress
• Kurtis Foster, Canadian ice hockey player
• Lafayette S. Foster, American politician
• Lisa Foster, Canadian actress
• Lynn Foster, municipal councillor in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
• M. A. Foster (born 1939), author/writer
• Marcus Foster, American educator
• Mark Foster, one of several people including
• Mark Foster (music critic) (1935–2001)
• Mark Foster (swimmer) (born 1970)
• Mark Foster (rugby player) (1983), rugby union player
• Maurice Foster, Canadian politician
• Maurice Foster, West Indian cricketer
• Meg Foster, American actress
• Michael Foster, one of several people, including:
• Michael Foster (1836–1907), physiologist
• Michael Jabez Foster (born 1956), British politician
• Michael John Foster (born 1963), British politician
• Michael Foster (1966), drummer of rock band FireHouse
• Murphy Foster, one of several people, including:
• Murphy James Foster, Sr. (1849–1921), American politician
• Murphy James "Mike" Foster, Jr. (1930), American politician
• Myles Birket Foster, English watercolourist
• Neil Foster, English cricketer
• Norman Foster, one of several people, including:
• Norman Foster (1900–1976), American film director
• Norman Foster (1921–2006), Australian politician
• Sir Norman Foster (born 1935), British architect
• Peter Foster, Australian con man
• Phil Foster, American actor
• Philip Foster, American businessman
• George Murphy "Pops" Foster (1892–1969), American jazz musician
• Preston Foster (1901–1970), actor
• R. F. Foster, card games rules expert
• Radney Foster, American musician
• Randolph Sinks Foster, Bishop] of the Methodist Episcopal Church
• Father Reginald Foster, American Catholic priest
• Richard J. Foster, Quaker, Christian writer, and founder of the Renovare seminar
• Robert Sidney Foster, British Governor of Fiji
• Roy Foster, one of several people, including:
• Roy Foster (1949), historian and author
• Roy Foster (1960), American football player
• Rube Foster (1879–1930), pioneer of Negro League baseball
• Rusty Foster, Kuro5hin founder
• Sara Foster, American actress
• Shan Foster, American college basketball player
• Simon Foster, computer game artist
• Stephen Foster (1826–1864), American composer
• Stephen C. Foster (politician) (1822–1898), the first mayor of Los Angeles
• Sutton Foster (born 1975), American entertainer
• Theodore Foster (1752–1828), U.S. politician
• Tim Foster, British rower
• Tip Foster, English footballer and cricketer
• Vince Foster (1945–1993), attorney for Bill Clinton
• Walter Edward Foster, Canadian politician
• Wilder D. Foster (1819–1873), U.S. Representative from Michigan
• Will Foster, British musician
• William Z. Foster (1891–1961), American activist

See also

• Foster (disambiguation)
• Ellen Foster, novel
• Forster (disambiguation)

References