Foster

People

• Foster (surname)
• Foster Brooks (1912–2001), American actor
• Foster Moreau (born 1997), American football player
• Foster Sarell (born 1998), American football player
• John Foster Dulles (1888–1959), American diplomat and politician
• Sterling Foster Black (1924–1996), American lawyer
• Caroline E. Foster, New Zealand law professor
• Jodie Foster (born 1962), American actor

Places

;Australia

• Foster, Victoria

;Canada

• Foster, Quebec, a village, now part of the town of Brome Lake

;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, Indiana
• Foster, Kentucky
• Foster, Washtenaw County, Michigan
• Foster, Minnesota
• Foster, Missouri
• Foster, Nebraska
• Foster, Oklahoma
• Foster, Oregon
• Foster, Rhode Island
• Foster Township, Michigan
• Foster, Wisconsin (disambiguation)
  • Foster, Clark County, Wisconsin, a town
  • Foster, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Foster City, California
• Foster Township (disambiguation)

Child care

• Foster care, the modern system of placing children in state custody in the homes of temporary caregivers
• Fosterage, the sometimes historical practice of children being raised by families not their own

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• Foster, a dog on General Hospital from 1994 to 1998
• Foster, one of The Fuzzpaws, puppets on the Canadian channel YTV
• 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, 2010
• 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
  • Foster's Lager
• William Foster & Co., British agricultural machinery company

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
• Fostering (falconry), bird breeding technique for its introduction into nature

Food

• Bananas Foster, a dessert of bananas and vanilla ice cream, with a caramelized liquor-based sauce.