John Forbes may refer to:
Science
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John Forbes (botanist) (1799–1823), English botanist
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John Forbes (physician)
Sir John Forbes FRCP FRS (17 December 1787 – 13 November 1861) was a distinguished Scottish physician, famous for his translation of the classic French medical text ''De L'Auscultation Mediate'' by René Laennec, the inventor of the stetho ...
(1787–1861), Scottish physician
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John Ripley Forbes (1913–2006), American naturalist and conservationist
Military
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John Forbes (British Army officer) (1707–1759), British general in the French and Indian War
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John Forbes (Portuguese general) (1733–1808), Scottish general in the Portuguese service
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John Forbes (Royal Navy officer) (1714–1796), British admiral and politician
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John Morrison Forbes (1925–2021), British admiral
Religion
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John Forbes (friar) (1571–1606), Scottish Capuchin friar
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John Forbes (Gaelic scholar)
John Forbes (1818–1863) was a minister of the Church of Scotland in Kilmore, Isle of Skye and a prominent Gaelic scholar. He is known for his work on the grammar of Scottish Gaelic, ''A double grammar English and Gaelic''.
Biography
John F ...
(1818–1863), Scottish minister and Gaelic translator
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John Forbes (Alford minister) (c. 1568–1634), Scottish minister exiled by James VI and I
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John Forbes (theologian, born 1593) (1593–1648), Scottish theologian; one of the six "Aberdeen doctors"
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John Forbes (minister of St Paul's, Glasgow) (1800-25 December 1874) Scottish mathematician and minister
Politics and law
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John Forbes (died 1734) (c. 1673–1734), Scottish member of the British Parliament for Inverness-shire, 1715–1722
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John Forbes (Iowa politician)
John Forbes (born October 21, 1956) is the Iowa State Representative from the 44th District. A Democrat, he has served in the Iowa House of Representatives since 2013.
, Forbes serves on several committees in the Iowa House – the Commerce, L ...
(born 1956), Iowa State Representative
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John Hay Forbes, Lord Medwyn (1776–1854), Scottish judge
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John Murray Forbes (diplomat) (1771–1831), American diplomat
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John W. Forbes II, American government official in Virginia
Sports
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John Forbes (cricketer) (1931–2017), South African cricketer
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John Forbes (footballer) (1862–1928), Scottish footballer
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John Forbes (sailor) (born 1970), Australian Olympian sailor
Business
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John Forbes and Company, the British firm of John Forbes (1767–1823) and his brother Thomas (†1808), a trading company active in the southeastern United States and India, from 1804 to 1847
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John Murray Forbes (1813–1898), American banker and railroad president
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John Malcolm Forbes (1847–1904), American businessman, yachtsman and horseman
Other people
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John Forbes (architect) (1795?–?), British architect
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John Forbes (poet) (1950–1998), Australian poet
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John Forbes, 6th Lord Forbes
John Forbes, 6th Lord Forbes (died 1547) was a Scottish landowner.
He was the son of William Forbes, 3rd Lord Forbes and Christian Gordon, daughter of Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly.
He became Lord Forbes after the death of his brother Arth ...
(died 1547), Scottish landowner
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John Forbes, 8th Lord Forbes (1542–1606), Scottish aristocrat
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John J. Forbes, American mining engineer
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John Stuart Hepburn Forbes
Sir John Stuart Hepburn Forbes, 8th Baronet, of Monymusk, of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, FRSE (1804–1866) was a Scottish baronet, landowner, advocate and agriculturalist. His name sometimes appears as Hepburn-Forbes.
Life
He was born in Dean ...
, Scottish baronet, landowner, advocate and agriculturalist
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