Forest (disambiguation)

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A forest is a large area covered by trees.

Contents 1 People 2 Places 3 Sports 4 Other uses 5 See also

Forest can also mean:

• Royal forest, an area set aside for hunting

[edit] People

Surname

• Frank Forest, American opera singer
• Jean-Claude Forest, French comic book author and creator of Barbarella
• Lee De Forest, American inventor with over 300 patents to his credit

Given name

• Forest Whitaker, American actor

[edit] Places

• Forest, Belgium
• Forest, Guernsey

Canada

• Forest, Frontenac County, Ontario
• Forest, Lambton County, Ontario

United Kingdom

• Forest, North Lanarkshire
• Forest, North Yorkshire
• Forest, Pembrokeshire

United States

• Forest, California
• Forest, Indiana
• Forest, Louisiana
• Forest, Mississippi
• Forest, Ohio
• Forest, Virginia
• Forest, Wisconsin

Several places share the following names:

• Forest Township
• Forest Lake
• Lake Forest
• Forestville

[edit] Sports

• Nottingham Forest F.C., an English football club
• Forest F.C., a famous pioneer football team better known as The Wanderers F.C.

[edit] Other uses

• FOREST, a British smokers' rights organisation
• Forest Laboratories, an American pharmaceutical company
• The Forest Café, a volunteer-run community café and arts venue in central Edinburgh
• In Windows networking, the collection of every object, their attributes and rules in an Active Directory
• In graph theory, a disjoint union of trees
• Forest (album), an album by George Winston
• Forest (novel), a 2001 novel by Australian author Sonya Hartnett
• The Forest (film), a 2002 film

[edit] See also

• Forest School
• Forrest