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Forster may refer people with that exact name. It can also be an anglicization of Förster (with o-umlaut), a Germanic surname which can however also be transliterated Foerster and there are some notable people whose surname is usually spelt in each of these ways.
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- Adam Forster (1850–1928), artist
- Brian Forster (b.1960), TV actor in The Partridge Family
- Carl Peter Forster (b.1954), President, GM Europe
- Any of the Forster Baronets
- E. M. Forster (1879-1970), English novelist
- Fraser Forster, (b.1988), English footballer
- Georg Forster (1754-1794), Polish-German botanical collector and artist
- George Forster, British convicted murderer
- Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster (1866-1936), Governor-General of Australia
- Jackie Forster (b.1926), TV reporter and member of the Minorities Research Group
- Johann Reinhold Forster (1729-1798), Polish born naturalist of German descent
- Jill Forster, Australian actress
- John Forster (1812-1876), English biographer and critic
- John Forster (Chief Justice) (1667-1720), Irish Solicitor General and Attorney General
- John Cooper Forster, British surgeon
- Marc Forster (b.1969), Swiss film director and screenwriter
- Mark Forster, British author
- Mark Forster (rugby league), a former rugby league player
- Mark Arnold-Forster (1920–1981), journalist, author and military historian
- Margaret Forster (b.1938), British author and literary critic
- Martin Onslow Forster, British chemist
- Nicky Forster, English footballer
- Norvela Forster (1931-1993), English businesswoman
- Robert Forster (b.1941), American actor
- Robert Forster (musician), Australian musician, member of The Go-Betweens
- Thomas Forster (1683-1738) Northumbrian Jacobite
- William Forster (1818-1882), Premier of New South Wales and poet
- William Forster (disambiguation), other men of that name
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- Albert Förster (1902-1952), German governor and war criminal
- Arnold Förster (1810–1884), German entomologist
- Christoph Förster (1693-1745), German composer
- Eckart Förster, professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University
- Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, sister of Friedrich Nietzsche
- Emmanuel Aloys Förster (1748-1823), musician and teacher in Vienna
- Ernst Joachim Förster (1800-1885), German art critic
- Friedrich Christoph Förster (1791-1868), German historian and poet
- Friedrich Förster (1908-1999), German spec. NDT, Фёрстер, Фридрих (rus)
- Karl-Heinz Förster and Bernd Förster, two German footballers (brothers)
- Ludwig Förster
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