Foster

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Foster may refer to:

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

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

Brands and companies

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.

See also

  • Foster Island (disambiguation)
  • Fosters (disambiguation)
  • Forster (disambiguation)
  • Justice Foster (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
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