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