Foster
People
- Foster (surname)
- Cecil G. Foster(1925-2016) USAF Korean War ace.
- Foster Brooks (1912–2001), American actor
- Foster Moreau (born 1997), American football player
- John Foster Dulles (1888–1959), American diplomat and politician
- Sterling Foster Black (1924–1996), American lawyer
Places
- Australia
- Canada
- Foster, Town of Brome Lake, Quebec
- United Kingdom
- Foster Mill, in Cambridge, England
- United States
- Foster (CTA), elevated transit station in Evanston, Illinois, USA
- Foster, California (disambiguation)
- Foster, San Diego County, California
- Foster, Siskiyou County, California
- Foster, Indiana
- Foster, Kentucky (disambiguation)
- Foster, Minnesota
- Foster, Missouri
- Foster, Nebraska
- Foster, Oklahoma
- Foster, Oregon
- Foster, Rhode Island
- Foster, Wisconsin (disambiguation)
- Foster, Clark County, Wisconsin, a town
- Foster, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
- Foster City, California
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
- Foster, the dog in General Hospital Characters
- Foster, one of the YTV Fuzzpaws
- Court Foster, a character in the film The Man in the Moon (1991)
- Madame Foster and Francis "Frankie" Foster, recurring characters of the animated show Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. The latter being the former's granddaughter
Literature
- "Foster" (short story), by Claire Keegan
- Ellen Foster (1987), novel by American author Kaye Gibbons
Other art, entertainment, and media
- Foster (film), a 2011 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Jonathan Newman
- Foster the People, an American rock band named after its lead singer Mark Foster
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, animated television series
Brands and companies
- Foster and Partners, an architectural firm
- Foster, Rastrick and Company, British steam locomotive manufacturer
- Foster's Group, Australian beer producer
- William Foster & Co., British agricultural machinery company
- Foster, a powder inhaler composed of beclometasone and formoterol, used as maintenance therapy for asthma and COPD in adult asthmatic patients.
Science and technology
- Foster's reactance theorem, theorem in electrical engineering
- Foster's rule (island rule), principle in evolutionary biology
- Foster's theorem, theorem in probability theory
- Foster, a 6-row malting barley variety
- Foster (crater), a small lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon
Other uses
- Foster, to take care of:
gollark: Think of all the possibly annoyed users.
gollark: Why would you think that randomly playing music without asking is a good idea?
gollark: ...
gollark: The weather should be under the control of a UN committee, not the moon. The moon is inscrutable, uncontrollable and may decide to damage the weather at *any moment*.
gollark: > 1. lets us see in the nightThis can easily be replaced with "torch" or "streetlight" technology. Alternatively, replace the moon with a giant mirror or directional light system.> 2. Keeps the earth spinning moreIt does not.> 3. Makes tides, which can create free energyNuclear is cooler anyway.> 4. Where the fuck would we put all the moon parts when we blow it upEither convert them to a nice ring, which will look really cool, or just move them to Jupiter or something. Or possibly use them to build tastefully decorated affordable housing.> 5. It costs money to buy explosivesWe could crowdfund the lunar destruction project.
See also
- Foster Island (disambiguation)
- Fosters (disambiguation)
- Forster (disambiguation)
- Justice Foster (disambiguation)
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