Förster or Foerster is a German surname meaning "forester". (It has often been Anglicised as Forster). Notable people of this name include:

• Arnold Förster (1810–1884), a German entomologist
• August Förster (physician) (1822–1865), a German anatomist and pathologist
• Bernd Förster (born 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 August Förster (1829–1897), a German piano maker and entrepreneur, August Förster (de)
• Friedrich Christoph Förster (1791–1868), a German historian and poet
• Friedrich Förster (1908–1999), a German spec. NDT, Фёрстер, Фридрих (ru)
• Heiko Mathias Förster (born 1966), German conductor
• 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

• 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
• Tyson Foerster (born 2002), ice hockey player
• Wendelin Förster (or Foerster) (1844–1915), German philologist and Arthurian scholar
• Wilhelm Julius Förster (or Foerster) (1832–1921), a German astronomer

• Foerster Peak
• Forester (disambiguation)
• Forrester (surname)
• Forster (surname)
• Foster (disambiguation)
• Fosters (disambiguation)
• Vorster

Surname list

This page lists people with the surname Förster or Foerster.
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