John Foster may refer to:

15th/16th/17th-century politicians

John Foster (MP for Bristol) John Foster may refer to: 15th/16th/17th-century politicians * John Foster (MP for Bristol), 15th-century MP for Bristol (UK Parliament constituency), Bristol * John Foster (died 1576), Member of Parliament for Winchester (UK Parliament constit ...

, 15th-century MP for

Bristol Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in ...

* John Foster (died 1576), Member of Parliament for

Winchester Winchester is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government Districts of England, district, at the western end of the South Downs Nation ...

, Plympton Erle and Hindon * John Foster (by 1508-47/51), MP for Much Wenlock * John Foster (died 1558), MP for Shaftesbury and Hertfordshire *

John Foster (printer) John Foster (1648 – September 9, 1681) was an early American engraver and printer who lived in Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony when the colony was still in its infancy. He is credited with producing the first printed image in British ...

(1648–1681) was the earliest American engraver and the first Boston printer.

18th-century politicians

* John Foster of Dunleer (died 1747), MP for Dunleer, grandfather of 1st Baron Oriel *

John Thomas Foster John Thomas Foster (1747 – 10 October 1796), of Dunleer, was an Irish politician. He was the son of Rev Thomas Foster, Rector of Dunleer and Dorothy née Burgh.Burke's Peerage (See Mssereene and Ferrard) Foster was elected member to the Irish ...

(1747–1796), MP * John William Foster (1745–1809), MP for Dunleer *

John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel Privy Council of Ireland, PC (Ire) (1740 – 23 August 1828) was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician, who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland (1784–1785, 1804–1806, 1807–1811) and as the last Speak ...

(1740–1828), speaker of the Irish House of Commons * John Foster (Dunleer MP) (1770–1792), MP for Dunleer 1790–1792, son of 1st Baron Oriel

19th/20th-century politicians

John Leslie Foster John Leslie Foster, FRS (c. 1781 – 10 July 1842) was an Irish barrister, judge and Tory Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom Parliament. In 1830 he was appointed a Baron of the Court of Exchequer of Ireland. He was the son of Wil ...

(1781–1842), Irish barrister, judge and member of parliament *

John Foster (Australian politician) John Leslie Fitzgerald Vesey Foster (19 August 1818 – 3 January 1900), also known as John Leslie Foster-Vesey-Fitzgerald, was a politician in colonial New South Wales and Victoria (Australia). Background Foster was the second son of the Ho ...

(1818–1900), politician in colonial New South Wales and Victoria *

John W. Foster John Watson Foster (March 2, 1836 – November 15, 1917) was an American diplomat and military officer, as well as a lawyer and journalist. His highest public office was U.S. Secretary of State under Benjamin Harrison, although he also proved inf ...

(1836–1917), American diplomat *

John H. Foster John Hopkins Foster (January 31, 1862 – September 5, 1917) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1905 to 1909. Early life and career Born in Evansville, Indiana, Foster attend ...

(1862–1917), U.S. Representative from Indiana * Kenneth Foster (politician) (John Kenneth Foster, 1866–1930), British Conservative Party politician *

John Foster (MP for Northwich) Brigadier Sir John Galway Foster (21 February 1903 – 1 February 1982) was a British Conservative Party politician, British Army officer and legal scholar. He served as Member of Parliament for the Northwich constituency in Cheshire from 194 ...

(1904–1982), British Conservative Party politician *

John Foster (Tasmanian politician) John Foster (1792–1875) was the eldest son of a Yorkshire farmer and landowner who came to Tasmania as a free settler in 1823, with his widowed mother, Jane, and youngest brother, Henry. The family received grants of land near Campbell Town, Ta ...

(1792–1875), member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council * John Foster (Lord Mayor of York) on List of Lord Mayors of York *John Foster, candidate in the

1927 Manitoba general election The 1927 Manitoba general election was held on 28 June 1927 to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. The result was a second consecutive victory for Manitoba farmers, following its 1922 win. This was the ...

* John Foster (Virginia politician) on

List of mayors of Richmond, Virginia The Mayor of Richmond, Virginia, Mayor of Richmond is the chief executive of the government of Richmond, Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, as stipulated by the city's charter. This list includes Mayor of Richmond, Virginia, mayors who were appointed ...

Academics

John Stuart Foster John Stuart Foster (May 30, 1890 – September 9, 1964) was a Canadian physicist. Biography Born in Clarence, Nova Scotia, he completed his Ph.D. at Yale University with a dissertation on the first measurements of the Stark effect in Helium ...

(1890–1944), Canadian physicist *

John S. Foster Jr. John Stuart Foster Jr. (born September 18, 1922) is an American physicist, best known as the fourth director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and as Director, Defense Research and Engineering under four Secretaries of Defense and two Pr ...

(John Stuart Foster Jr., born 1922), American physicist and government official *

John Bellamy Foster John Bellamy Foster (born August 15, 1953) is an American professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of the ''Monthly Review''. He writes about political economy of capitalism and economic crisis, ecology and ecological crisis, ...

(born 1953), American Marxist scholar *

John Wells Foster John Wells Foster (March 4, 1815 – June 29, 1873) was an American geologist and archaeologist. Biography Foster was born March 4, 1815, in Petersham, Massachusetts where his father, Festus Foster was a minister. When Festus quit the ministry i ...

(1815–1873), American geologist *

John Foster (essayist) John Foster (1770–1843) was an English Baptist minister and essayist. The son of a weaver, born in Halifax, Yorkshire, and educated for the ministry at the Baptist college in Bristol, Foster served as a minister for a number of years. Becomi ...

(1770–1843), English essayist *

John Foster (philosopher) John Andrew Foster (5 May 1941 - 12 March 2009), known as John Foster, was a British philosopher and tutorial Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1966 to 2005 (and then a Emeritus Fellow until his death in 2009). He authored several book ...

(1941–2009), British philosopher * John Foster (canon) (died 1773), headmaster of Eton College * John Foster (paleontologist) (born 1966), American paleontologist *

John Wilson Foster John Wilson Foster (born 1942) is an Irish literary critic and cultural historian. Early life and career John Wilson (Jack) Foster was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the son of William Foster (draughtsman) and Gertrude Foster ( ...

(born 1942), Irish literary critic and cultural historian

Art and entertainment

* John Foster (British singer) (born 1960), British singer * John Foster (Italian singer) (born 1939), Italian singer *

John Foster (cartoonist) John Foster (November 27, 1886 – February 16, 1959), was a cartoonist and film director. He is remembered for his direction in over a hundred films, including the Van Beuren Tom and Jerry series and the early (1928) sound-on-film cartoon "Din ...

(1886–1959), also director *

(1648–1681), American printer and engraver * John B. Foster (artist) (1865–1930), New England watercolorist *John Foster, a character in the television series '' Skins'' * John Foster (cinematographer), see

Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography The Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography is one of the annual awards given out by Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers, since 1985. Winners and nominees 1980s * 1985: T ...

* John Foster (composer) (1752–1822), English composer

Sports

* John Foster Jr. (sailor) (born 1963), American sport-sailor * John Foster Sr. (sailor) (born 1938), American sport-sailor & sled racer * John Foster (footballer) (born 1973), English footballer *

John Foster (baseball) John Norman Foster (born May 17, 1978) is an American former professional baseball pitcher and currently pitching coach for the Chinatrust Brothers of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). Career Foster was drafted by the Atlanta Bra ...

(born 1978), American baseball player * John Foster (cricketer) (born 1955), former English cricketer * John B. Foster (baseball) (1863–1941), New York City baseball writer, sports editor, and ballclub officer * John Foster (sport shooter) (born 1936), American sports shooter * John Foster (water polo) (1931–2013), Australian water polo player

Journalists

* John Foster (Canadian journalist), see '' This Land'' * John Foster (BBC journalist) on '' Scottish Lobby''

Religious figures

John Foster (priest) John William Foster (5 August 1921–7 March 2000) was an eminent Anglican priest in the second half of the twentieth century. Foster was born in 1921 and served in the Leicestershire Yeomanry from 1939 to 1946. After studying at St Aidan's C ...

(1921–2000), Anglican dean of Guernsey *John Foster, 18th century American clergyman, husband of

Hannah Webster Foster Hannah Webster Foster (September 10, 1758/59 – April 17, 1840) was an American novelist. Her epistolary novel, '' The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton'', was published anonymously in 1797. Although it sold well in the 1790s, it was no ...

* John Onesimus Foster (1833–1920), American Methodist minister * John Foster (Archdeacon of Huntingdon),

Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Wisbech The Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Wisbech is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Diocese of Ely. The archdeacon is responsible for some clergy discipline and pastoral care in the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon and Wisbech. History The Archdeaconry o ...

Others

John G. Foster John Gray Foster (May 27, 1823 – September 2, 1874) was an American soldier. A career military officer in the United States Army and a Union Army, Union general during the American Civil War, he served in North Carolina, North and South Caroli ...

(1823–1874), United States Army officer and Union general during the American Civil War *John Foster, sound editor, see

BAFTA Award for Best Sound This is a list of winners and nominees for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound, which is presented to sound designers, sound editors, sound engineers, and sound mixers, given out by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts since 1969. Winners ...

* John Foster (trade unionist), see

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John Foster (textile manufacturer) John Foster (1798–1879) was a British manufacturer of worsted cloth. He was the son of a colliery owner and farmer in Bradford, West Yorkshire. In 1819 he married Ruth Briggs, daughter of a landowner from Queensbury, on the outskirts of Br ...

(1798–1879), British worsted cloth manufacturer * John Foster Sr. (engineer) (1758–1827), Liverpool based British engineer *

John Foster (architect, born 1786) :''This is about the architect. For his father, see John Foster, Sr.'' John Foster, Junior (1786 – 21 August 1846) was an English architect born and based in Liverpool. In succession to his father, he was Surveyor to the Corporation of L ...

(1786–1846), Liverpool based British architect, son of John Foster Sr. * John Foster (architect, born 1830) (1830–1880), Bristol based British architect * John H. Foster (physician) (1796–1874), American physician and member of boards of education *John Foster (died 1829), plantation owner, owned the slave

Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori Abdul Rahman Ibrahima ibn Sori ( ar, عبد الرحمن ابراهيم سوري; 1762—July 6, 1829) was a prince and Amir (commander) from the Fouta Djallon region of Guinea, West Africa, who was captured and sold to slave trad ...

* John Foster (fireboat), see

MetalCraft Marine MetalCraft Marine (MCM) is an aluminum boat manufacturer located in Kingston, Ontario. In 2012 MCM opened a facility in Cape Vincent, New York after operating in Clayton, New York for many years. Founded in 1987 by Tom Wroe and Montgomery Smith, ...