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'''Forster''' may refer people with that exact name. |
'''Forster''', a German [[surname]], may refer people with that exact name. |
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It can also be an anglicization of '''Förster''' (with [[Ö|o-umlaut]]), a Germanic surname meaning [[Forester]] which can also be transliterated '''Foerster''' and there are some persons whose surname is spelt in each of these ways. |
It can also be an anglicization of '''Förster''' (with [[Ö|o-umlaut]]), a Germanic surname meaning [[Forester]] which can also be transliterated '''Foerster''' and there are some persons whose surname is spelt in each of these ways. |
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Revision as of 06:38, 31 May 2016
Forster, a German surname, may refer people with that exact name. It can also be an anglicization of Förster (with o-umlaut), a Germanic surname meaning Forester which can also be transliterated Foerster and there are some persons whose surname is spelt in each of these ways.
Forster
- Forster baronets, several persons
- Adam Forster (1850-1928), an artist
- Albert Forster (1902-1952), a German governor and war criminal
- Brian Forster (born 1960), a TV actor in The Partridge Family
- B. Y. Forster, the pseudonym of American songwriter George David Weiss
- Carl-Peter Forster (born 1954), the President of GM Europe
- Sir Charles Forster, 1st Baronet (1815–1891), English Liberal politician
- Charles Farrar Forster (1848-1894), an English priest
- Charles French Blake-Forster (1851–1874), an Irish writer
- Charles Smith Forster (1786–1850), an English banker and Conservative politician
- E. M. Forster (1879-1970), an English novelist
- François Forster (1790-1872), a French engraver
- Fraser Forster (born 1988), an English footballer
- Garey Forster (born 1950), a Louisiana politician
- Georg Forster (composer) (1510-1568), a German Renaissance editor, composer and physician
- Georg Forster (1754-1794), a Polish-German botanical collector and artist; son of Johann Reinhold Forster
- George Forster (disambiguation), several persons
- Gisela Forster (born 1946), a German teacher, writer and theologian
- Heinrich Forster (1897–1955), German SS-Hauptsturmführer and Lagerführer in Nazi concentration camps
- Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster (1866-1936), a Governor-General of Australia
- Jack Forster (born 1987), an English rugby union player
- Jackie Forster (born 1926), a TV reporter and member of the Minorities Research Group
- Jill Forster (born 1936), an Australian actress
- Johann Reinhold Forster, (1729-1798), a Polish-born naturalist of German and Scottish descent
- John Forster (disambiguation), several persons
- Jordon Forster (born 1993), a Scottish footballer
- Josiah Forster (1782 – 1870) was a teacher and philanthropist
- Kevin Forster (born 1958), an English long-distance runner
- Marc Forster (born 1969), a Swiss film director and screenwriter
- Margaret Forster (1938–2016), a British author and literary critic
- Mark Forster (author), a British author
- Mark Forster (rugby league), a former rugby league player
- Mark Arnold-Forster (1920-1981), a journalist, author and military historian
- Martin Onslow Forster (1872-1945), a British chemist
- Nick Forster, the founder of eTown radio program
- Nicky Forster (born 1973), an English footballer
- Norvela Forster (1931-1993), an English businesswoman
- Raymond Robert Forster (1922-2000), a New Zealand spider expert
- Robert Forster (born 1941), an American actor
- Robert Forster (musician) (born 1957), an Australian musician, member of The Go-Betweens
- Roger T Forster (born 1933), a theologian and leader of Ichthus Christian Fellowship
- Thomas Forster (1683-1738), a Northumbrian Jacobite
- Thomas Emerson Forster (1802–1875), an English mining engineer.
- Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster (1789-1860), an astronomer and naturalist
- Walter Forster (disambiguation)
- William Thomas Forster (or Thomas William Forster), a former politician in British Columbia
- William Forster (Australian politician) (1818-1882), a Premier of New South Wales and poet
- William Forster (disambiguation), other men of that name
Förster
- Arnold Förster (1810–84), a German entomologist
- August Förster (physician) (1822-1865), a German anatomist and pathologist
- Bernd Förster (b. 1956), a German footballer (brother of Karlheinz)
- Christoph Förster (1693–1745), a German composer
- Eckart Förster, a professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University
- Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (1846–1935), the sister of Friedrich Nietzsche
- Emmanuel Aloys Förster (1748–1823), a musician and teacher in Vienna
- Ernst Joachim Förster (1800–1885), a German art critic
- Franz Förster (1819-1878), a German jurist
- Friedrich Christoph Förster (1791–1868), a German historian and poet
- Friedrich Förster (1908–1999), a German spec. NDT, Фёрстер, Фридрих (rus)
- Heinrich Förster (bishop) (1800-1881), a German Roman Catholic bishop
- Helmuth Förster (1889–1965), a Luftwaffe general during World War II
- Karl Förster (1784-1841), a German poet and translator
- Karlheinz Förster (born 1958), a German football player (brother of Bernd)
- Kerstin Förster (born 1965), a German rower (wife of Olaf)
- Ludwig Förster (1797–1863), an architect
- Olaf Förster(born 1962), a German rower (husband of Kerstin)
- Theodor Förster (1910–1974), a physicist and chemist, discoverer of Förster resonance energy transfer
Foerster
- Heinz von Foerster (1911–2002), an Austro-American founder of cybernetics
- Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859–1951), a Czech composer of classical music
- Otfrid Foerster (1873–1941), a German neurologist
- Wendelin Förster (or Foerster) (1844–1915), German philologist and Arthurian scholar
- Wilhelm Julius Förster (or Foerster) (1832–1921), a German astronomer
See also
- Forester (disambiguation)
- Forrester (surname)
- Foster (disambiguation)
- Fosters (disambiguation)
- Vorster
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