Foster (surname)
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Foster is a surname, ultimately derived from the name of a Frankish saint, Vedast, also known as Foster or St. Foster.[1]
It may refer to:
- Abby Kelley Foster, American abolitionist
- Abiel Foster (1735–1806), American religious leader and politician
- Al Foster, American jazz drummer
- Alan Dean Foster (born 1946), American writer
- Amy Foster, (born 1992), British actor
- Andrew Cochrane Foster, Northern Ireland Trade Unionist
- Andrew Foster, one of several people, including:
- Andrew Foster (1870–1956), Canadian politician
- Andrew Foster (educator) (1925–1987), American promoter of schools for the deaf
- Andrew Foster (1972), English tennis player
- Andrew Foster (Australian rules footballer) (1985), Fremantle Dockers player
- Andrew Foster-Williams, British classical singer
- Arlene Foster, Northern Ireland politician
- Audrey Hylton-Foster, Baroness Hylton-Foster, British life peer
- Barry Foster, one of several people, including:
- Barry Foster (1927–2002), British actor
- Barry Foster (1968), American football player
- Ben Foster, one of several people, including:
- Ben Foster (1980), American actor
- Ben Foster (1983), English footballer
- Bill Foster, one of several people, including:
- Bill Foster (1904–1978), Negro League baseball player.
- Bill "The Fox" Foster (1932–2000), entertainer, self-proclaimed "World's Fastest Beer Drinker", and band leader on The Man Show
- Bill Foster (1936), college basketball coach.
- Bill Foster (1955), United States Representative
- Blake Foster, American actor
- Bob Foster (born 1938), American boxer
- Brendan Foster (born 1948), British runner
- Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Jamaican hurdler
- Brodie Foster Hubbard (1978), singer/songwriter/guitarist
- C.Edward Foster, Grand Dragon in the Ku Klux Klan
- Carey Foster (1835–1919) English chemist and physicist
- Cecil Foster, Canadian writer
- Charles Foster, one of several people including
- Charles Foster (1828–1904), a U.S. Republican politician from Ohio
- Charles Foster (1923), British-born Canadian writer
- Charles Foster (1936), announcer for Granada television
- Charles Foster, American Reform Party chairman
- Christopher Foster, English cricketer
- Clement le Neve Foster, British geologist
- Cody Foster, American porn star
- Danny Foster, British musician
- Dave Foster, American drummer
- David Foster, one of several people, including:
- David Foster (born 1949), Canadian composer, musician, and producer
- David Foster (1957), Australian champion woodcutter
- Denzil Foster, of record producers Foster & McElroy
- David Kirby Foster, Baptist minister and community leader from Missouri
- Derek Foster, British politician
- DeShaun Foster (born 1980), American football player
- Doctor Foster, nursery rhyme character
- Don Foster, British politician
- Donald W. Foster, American Professor of English and a linguistic/literary sleuth
- Dwight Foster, one of several people, including:
- Dwight Foster (1757–1823), American politician
- Dwight Foster (born 1957), American hockey player
- Edward Foster, British soldier
- Ephraim H. Foster, American politician
- Ezola B. Foster, American activist
- Fiona Foster, British television journalist
- Florence Foster, American soprano Florence Foster Jenkins
- Frank Foster, one of several people, including:
- Frank Hugh Foster (1851–1935) American Ph. D., D.D., and Congregational pastor
- Frank Keys Foster (1854–1909) American labor leader
- Frank William Foster (1887–1963), British RAF officer
- Frank Rowbotham Foster (1889–1958) English cricket player
- Frank Foster (1928), American jazz saxophonist
- Fred Foster, American songwriter
- George Foster, one of several people, including:
- George Eulas Foster (1847–1931), Canadian politician
- George Foster (born 1948), U.S. baseball player
- George Foster (born 1980), American football player
- George Foster (footballer), former British association football player
- Gloria Foster, American actress
- Greg Foster, one of several people including
- Greg Foster, American basketball player
- Greg Foster, American hurdler
- Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, American academic
- Hal Foster, one of several people, including:
- Hal Foster (1892–1982), comic strip creator
- Hal Foster, American art critic
- Hannah Webster Foster, American novelist
- Harry Hylton-Foster, British politician
- Henry Foster, one of several people, including:
- Henry Foster (1796–1831; fl. 1820s), British soldier & scientist
- Henry A. Foster (1800–1889), American politician
- Henry Foster, American physician
- Hunter Foster, American entertainer
- Ian Foster, grid computing pioneer
- Israel Moore Foster, American politician
- Ivan Foster, Northern Ireland Presbyterian minister and politician
- Jack Foster (1932–2004), New Zealand long-distance runner
- James Foster, one of several people, including:
- James Foster (1786–1853), English entrepreneur
- James Foster (1905–1969), Scottish-born Canadian hockey player
- James C. Foster (fl. 1976–), American entrepreneur
- James Foster (1980), English cricketer
- Jane Foster, alleged Soviet spy
- Jeanne Robert Foster, American poet
- Jeff Foster, American basketball player
- Jim Foster, Arena Football League founder
- Jodie Foster (born 1962), US actress
- John Foster, one of several people, including:
- John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel (1740–1828), English Baron
- John Foster Snr. (1758–1827), British architect
- John Foster Jr. (1786–1846), British architect
- John Foster (essayist) (1770–1843), English essayist
- John Leslie Foster (1781–1842;), Irish politician
- John Wells Foster (1815–1873), American geologist
- John G. Foster (1823–1874), American soldier
- John W. Foster (1836–1917), American diplomat
- John Bellamy Foster (fl. 1982–), American sociologist
- John Foster (1978), American baseball player
- Jon Foster, American actor
- Jon Foster, American illustrator
- Josephine Foster, American musician
- Juliette Foster, British television journalist
- Karen Foster, American model and actress
- Kevin Mychael Foster (1986), United States Army Paralegal
- Kimberly Foster, American actress
- Kurtis Foster, Canadian ice hockey player
- Lafayette S. Foster, American politician
- Lauren D. Foster, (born 1992) twin with Amy Foster, British performing arts actor
- Lisa Foster, Canadian actress
- Lynn Foster, municipal councillor in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
- M. A. Foster (born 1939), author/writer
- Marcus Foster, American educator
- Mark Foster, one of several people including
- Mark Foster (music critic) (1935–2001)
- Mark Foster (swimmer) (born 1970)
- Mark Foster (rugby player) (1983), rugby union player
- Maurice Foster, Canadian politician
- Maurice Foster, West Indian cricketer
- Meg Foster, American actress
- Michael Foster, one of several people, including:
- Michael Foster (1836–1907), physiologist
- Michael Jabez Foster (born 1956), British politician
- Michael John Foster (born 1963), British politician
- Michael Foster (1966), drummer of rock band FireHouse
- Michael Alan Foster, Author of the LGPL'd X Library
- Murphy Foster, one of several people, including:
- Murphy James Foster, Sr. (1849–1921), American politician
- Murphy James "Mike" Foster, Jr. (1930), American politician
- Myles Birket Foster, English watercolourist
- Neil Foster, English cricketer
- Norman Foster, one of several people, including:
- Norman Foster (1900–1976), American film director
- Norman Foster (1921–2006), Australian politician
- Sir Norman Foster (born 1935), British architect
- Peter Foster, Australian con man
- Phil Foster, American actor
- Philip Foster, American businessman
- George Murphy "Pops" Foster (1892–1969), American jazz musician
- Preston Foster (1901–1970), actor
- R. F. Foster, card games rules expert
- Radney Foster, American musician
- Randolph Sinks Foster, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
- Father Reginald Foster, American Catholic priest
- Richard J. Foster, Quaker, Christian writer, and founder of the Renovare seminar
- Robert Sidney Foster, British Governor of Fiji
- Roy Foster, one of several people, including:
- Roy Foster (1949), historian and author
- Roy Foster (1960), American football player
- Rube Foster (1879–1930), pioneer of Negro League baseball
- Rusty Foster, Kuro5hin founder
- Sara Foster, American actress
- Shan Foster, American college basketball player
- Simon Foster, computer game artist
- Stephen Foster (1826–1864), American composer
- Stephen C. Foster (politician) (1822–1898), the first mayor of Los Angeles
- Sutton Foster (born 1975), American entertainer
- T. Jack Foster, American land developer for whom Foster City, California was named
- Theodore Foster (1752–1828), U.S. politician
- Tim Foster, British rower
- Tip Foster, English footballer and cricketer
- Vince Foster (1945–1993), attorney for Bill Clinton
- Walter Edward Foster, Canadian politician
- Wilder D. Foster (1819–1873), U.S. Representative from Michigan
- Will Foster, British musician
- William Z. Foster (1891–1961), American activist
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