John Forbes

John Forbes may refer to:

Science

• John Forbes (botanist) (1799–1823), English botanist
• John Forbes (physician) (1787–1861), Scottish physician
• John Ripley Forbes (1913–2006), American naturalist and conservationist

Military

• John Forbes (British Army officer) (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) (1714–1796), British admiral and politician
• John Morrison Forbes (1925–2021), British admiral

Religion

• John Forbes (friar) (1571–1606), Scottish Capuchin friar
• John Forbes (Gaelic scholar) (1818–1863), Scottish minister and Gaelic translator
• John Forbes (Alford minister) (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) (c. 1673–1734), Scottish member of the British Parliament for Inverness-shire, 1715–1722
• John Forbes (1801–1840), British Member of Parliament and East India Company director
• John Forbes (Iowa politician) (born 1956), Iowa State Representative
• John Hay Forbes, Lord Medwyn (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) (1862–1928), Scottish footballer
• John Forbes (sailor) (born 1970), Australian Olympian sailor
• John Forbes (rugby union), Scottish international rugby union player

Business

• John Forbes and Company, 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 (1813–1898), American banker and railroad president
• John Malcolm Forbes (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 (died 1547), Scottish landowner
• John Forbes, 8th Lord Forbes (1542–1606), Scottish aristocrat
• John J. Forbes, American mining engineer
• John Stuart Hepburn Forbes, Scottish baronet, landowner, advocate and agriculturalist