John Forbes may refer to:

Science

* John Forbes (botanist) (1799–1823), English botanist *

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 * John Ripley Forbes (1913–2006), American naturalist and conservationist

Military

John Forbes (British Army officer) John Forbes (5 September 1707 – 11 March 1759) was a Scottish professional soldier who served in the British Army from 1729 until his death in 1759. During the 1754 to 1763 French and Indian War, he commanded the 1758 Forbes Expedition t ...

(1707–1759), British general in the French and Indian War * John Forbes (Portuguese general) (1733–1808), Scottish general in the Portuguese service *

John Forbes (Royal Navy officer) Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy), Admiral of the Fleet John Forbes (17 July 1714 – 10 March 1796), styled The Honourable from 1734, was a Royal Navy officer. After taking part in an expedition to Lisbon to support the Kingdom of Portugal ...

(1714–1796), British admiral and politician *

John Morrison Forbes Vice Admiral (Royal Navy), Vice Admiral Sir John Morrison Forbes Order of the Bath, KCB (16 August 1925 – 24 October 2021) was a British Royal Navy officer who became Naval Secretary. Naval career Forbes attended Rockport School in Holywood, ...

(1925–2021), British admiral

Religion

John Forbes (friar) John Forbes (1571–1606) was a Scottish Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, Capuchin friar, known as Father Archangel. Life Forbes was the second son of John Forbes, 8th Lord Forbes, by his first wife, Lady Margaret Gordon, eldest daughter of George ...

(1571–1606), Scottish Capuchin friar *

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 *

John Forbes (Alford minister) John Forbes (c.1568–1634) was a Scottish minister exiled by James VI and I. He founded a Church of Scotland in Middelburg in the Netherlands. He was born about 1568, and was third son of William Forbes of Corse and Elizabeth, daughter of Alex ...

(c. 1568–1634), Scottish minister exiled by James VI and I * John Forbes (theologian, born 1593) (1593–1648), Scottish theologian; one of the six "Aberdeen doctors" * John Forbes (minister of St Paul's, Glasgow) (1800-25 December 1874) Scottish mathematician and minister

Politics and law

John Forbes (died 1734) John Forbes (c. 1673–1734), of Culloden, Inverness, was a Scottish politician who sat in the Parliament of Scotland from 1704 to 1707 and in the British House of Commons from 1713 to 1727. He was known as ‘Bumper John’ from his enduring be ...

(c. 1673–1734), Scottish member of the British Parliament for Inverness-shire, 1715–1722 *

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 *

John Hay Forbes, Lord Medwyn John Hay Forbes, Lord Medwyn (19 September 1776 – 25 July 1854) was a British judge. Life Forbes was born in Edinburgh on 19 September 1776 the second son of Sir William Forbes, 6th Baronet, and his wife Elizabeth Hay. He studied law at Edinb ...

(1776–1854), Scottish judge * John Murray Forbes (diplomat) (1771–1831), American diplomat * John W. Forbes II, American government official in Virginia

Sports

* John Forbes (cricketer) (1931–2017), South African cricketer *

John Forbes (footballer) John Forbes (13 January 1862 – 31 January 1928) was a Scottish footballer who played in the English Football League for Blackburn Rovers. Club career Vale of Leven Forbes began his career as a forward with Star of Leven. In 1879 he joined Vale ...

(1862–1928), Scottish footballer * John Forbes (sailor) (born 1970), Australian Olympian sailor

Business

John Forbes and Company John Forbes (1767–1823) and his elder brother Thomas Forbes (d.1808) were Scottish traders who operated in East Florida, West Florida, Spanish Florida and the southeastern borderlands during the tail end of the eighteenth century. John Forbes & ...

, 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 *

John Murray Forbes John Murray Forbes (February 23, 1813 – October 12, 1898) was an American railroad magnate, merchant, philanthropist and abolitionist. He was president of both the Michigan Central railroad and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in ...

(1813–1898), American banker and railroad president *

John Malcolm Forbes John Malcolm Forbes (1847 – February 19, 1904) was an American businessman and sportsman. He was born in Milton, Massachusetts in 1847 into the wealthy Forbes family of Boston, with his father being John Murray Forbes. He was a prominent ya ...

(1847–1904), American businessman, yachtsman and horseman

Other people

* John Forbes (architect) (1795?–?), British architect * John Forbes (poet) (1950–1998), Australian poet *

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 *

John Forbes, 8th Lord Forbes John Forbes, 8th Lord Forbes (1542–1606) was a Scottish aristocrat. He was a son of William Forbes, 7th Lord Forbes (1513-1593) and Elizabeth Keith, the heiress of Inverugie. He was first Master of Forbes, and became Lord Forbes on the death of ...

(1542–1606), Scottish aristocrat * John J. Forbes, American mining engineer *

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 H ...

, Scottish baronet, landowner, advocate and agriculturalist {{hndis, Forbes, John