Foster may refer to:

People

Foster Brooks Foster Brooks (May 11, 1912 – December 20, 2001) was an American actor and comedian best known for his portrayal of a lovable drunk in nightclub performances and television programs. Early life Brooks was born in Louisville, Kentucky on ...

(1912–2001), American actor *

Foster Moreau Foster Moreau (born May 6, 1997) is an American football tight end for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at LSU. Early years Moreau grew up in New Orleans and attended Jesuit High School, w ...

(born 1997), American football player *

Foster Sarell Foster Dane Sarell (born August 28, 1998) is an American football offensive tackle for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Stanford and was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Baltimor ...

(born 1998), American football player *

John Foster Dulles John Foster Dulles (, ; February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was an American diplomat, lawyer, and Republican Party politician. He served as United States Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959 and was briefly ...

(1888–1959), American diplomat and politician *

Sterling Foster Black Sterling Foster Black (September 12, 1924 – May 20, 1996) was an American lawyer and politician. Biography Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Black was the son of United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Hugo Black. Black served in the Unite ...

(1924–1996), American lawyer * Jodie Foster (born 1962), American actor

Places

;Australia * Foster, Victoria ;Canada * Foster, Quebec, a village, now part of the town of Broke Lake ;United Kingdom *

Foster Mill Station Road is a road in southeast Cambridge, England.Station Area Conservation Appraisal', Quality Built Environments (QuBE), prepared for Cambridge City Council. June 2004. It leads from a junction with traffic lights on Hills Road ( A1307) ...

, in Cambridge, England ;United States *

Foster (CTA) Foster is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, on the Purple Line in Evanston, Illinois. It is located at 900 Foster Street (directional coordinates 2000 north, 900 west), just a few blocks west of Northwestern University's ...

, elevated transit station in Evanston, Illinois, USA *

Foster, California (disambiguation) Foster, California may refer to: *Foster, San Diego County, California * Foster, Siskiyou County, California *Foster Bar, California *Foster City, California Foster City is a city located in San Mateo County, California. The 2020 census put t ...

Foster, San Diego County, California Foster was a settlement in east San Diego County, California. It was located approximately 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north of Lakeside, near the present-day location of the San Vicente Dam. It was the terminus of the San Diego, Cuyamaca, and Eas ...

Foster, Indiana Foster is a small Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Mound Township, Warren County, Indiana, Mound Township, Warren County, Indiana, Warren County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. History Foster was platted April 25, 1893 on land donat ...

Foster, Kentucky Foster (also known as Fosters) is an unincorporated community located in Bracken County, Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of ...

* Foster, Washtenaw County, Michigan *

Foster, Minnesota Foster is an unincorporated community in Foster Township, Big Stone, Minnesota, United States. History Foster was plat In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of la ...

* Foster, Missouri *

Foster, Nebraska Foster is a village in Pierce County, Nebraska, Pierce County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Norfolk, Nebraska Norfolk Micropolitan Statistical Area, Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 51 at the 2010 United States Census ...

Foster, Oklahoma Foster is a town in Garvin County, Oklahoma, United States. It was incorporated in 2002 and had a population of 161 at the 2010 census. Foster is served by State Highway 29A, a spur of State Highway 29. A post office was first established at ...

Foster, Oregon Foster is an unincorporated community partly within the city of Sweet Home in Linn County, Oregon. It is located on the western end of the Foster Reservoir. A post office named Foster serves ZIP code 97345, which serves areas beyond the Sweet Ho ...

* Foster, Rhode Island * Foster Township, Michigan * Foster, Wisconsin (disambiguation) ** Foster, Clark County, Wisconsin, a town ** Foster, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community * Foster City, California * Foster Township (disambiguation)

Child care

* Foster care, the modern system of placing children in state custody in the homes of temporary caregivers * Fosterage, the sometimes historical practice of children being raised by families not their own

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

Foster Foster may refer to: People * Foster (surname) * Foster Brooks (1912–2001), American actor * Foster Moreau (born 1997), American football player * Foster Sarell (born 1998), American football player * John Foster Dulles (1888–1959), American ...

, a dog on ''General Hospital'' from 1994 to 1998 * Foster, one of

The Fuzzpaws The Fuzzpaws are a group of seven puppets which co-hosted the Treehouse programming block on YTV in the 1990s. When the block was cancelled in 1998 in favor of an unhosted block called YTV Jr., the Fuzzpaws got their own TV series and a markete ...

, puppets on the Canadian channel YTV * Court Foster, a character in the film '' The Man in the Moon'' (1991) *Madame Foster and Francis "Frankie" Foster, recurring characters of the animated show '' Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends''. The latter being the former's granddaughter

Literature

* "Foster" (short story), by Claire Keegan, 2010 * ''

Ellen Foster ''Ellen Foster'' is a 1987 novel by American novelist Kaye Gibbons. It was a selection of Oprah's Book Club in October 1997. Plot introduction The novel follows the story of Ellen, the first person narrator, a young white American girl living un ...

'', 1987 novel by American author Kaye Gibbons

Other art, entertainment, and media

* ''Foster'' (film), a 2011 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Jonathan Newman *

Foster the People Foster the People is an American indie pop band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 2009. Its members are singer Mark Foster, guitarist Sean Cimino, and keyboardist Isom Innis. Foster founded the band in 2009 after spending several years in ...

, an American rock band named after its lead singer Mark Foster * '' Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends'', animated television series

Brands and companies

Foster and Partners Foster + Partners is a British architectural, engineering, and integrated design practice founded in 1967 as Foster Associates by Norman Foster. It is the largest architectural firm in the UK with over 1,500 employees in 13 studios worldwide. ...

, an architectural firm *

Foster, Rastrick and Company Foster, Rastrick and Company was one of the pioneering steam locomotive manufacturing companies of England. It was based in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, now West Midlands. James Foster, an ironmaster, and John Urpeth Rastrick, an engineer, becam ...

, British steam locomotive manufacturer *

Foster's Group Foster's Group Pty. Ltd. was an Australian beer group with interests in brewing and soft drinks, known for Foster's Lager, now called Carlton & United Breweries since the company was renamed in 2011. Foster's was founded in 1888 in Melbourne, Vi ...

, Australian beer producer **

Foster's Lager Foster's Lager is an internationally-distributed brand of lager. It is owned by the international brewing group Asahi Group Holdings, and is brewed under licence in a number of countries, including its biggest market, the UK, where the Europe ...

* William Foster & Co., British agricultural machinery company

Science and technology

Foster's reactance theorem Foster's reactance theorem is an important theorem in the fields of electrical network analysis and synthesis. The theorem states that the reactance of a passive, lossless two-terminal (one-port) network always strictly monotonically increases ...

, theorem in electrical engineering *

Foster's rule Fosters or Foster's may refer to: Places * Fosters, Alabama * Fosters, Michigan * Fosters, Ohio Television * ''The Fosters'' (British TV series), a short-lived British sitcom that ran from 1976 to 1977 * ''The Fosters'' (American TV series), ...

(island rule), principle in evolutionary biology * Foster's theorem, theorem in probability theory * Foster, a 6-row malting

barley Barley (''Hordeum vulgare''), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. It was one of the first cultivated grains, particularly in Eurasia as early as 10,000 years ago. Globally 70% of barley pr ...

variety *

Foster (crater) Foster is a small lunar impact crater that lies to the southeast of the larger crater Joule, on the far side of the Moon. The rim of Foster is slightly eroded, and the narrow inner walls slope directly down to the relatively dark interior floor. Th ...

, a small lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon