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  1. John Forbes (British Army officer), John Forbes (Gaelic scholar), John Forbes (General), John Forbes (Iowa politician), John Forbes (Royal Navy officer), John Forbes (admiral), John Forbes (footballer), John Forbes (physician), John Forbes (poet), John Forbes (sailor), John Forbes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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noun:  Brigadier-General (5 September 1707 – 11 March 1759) a British Army officer.
noun:  (1 September 1950 – 23 January 1998) an Australian poet.
noun:  Sir John Forbes FRCP FRS (17 December 1787 – 13 November 1861) was a Scottish physician, famous for his translation of the classic French medical text De L'Auscultation Mediate by René Laennec, the inventor of the stethoscope.
noun:  John B. Forbes (born 1795?) was an architect in Cheltenham.
noun:  Admiral of the Fleet John Forbes (17 July 1714 – 10 March 1796), styled The Honourable from 1734, was a Royal Navy officer.
noun:  (c.1568–1634) a Scottish minister exiled by James VI and I. He founded a Church of Scotland in Middelburg in the Netherlands.
noun:  John Forbes of Corse (2 May 1593 – 29 April 1648) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister and theologian, one of the Aberdeen doctors, noted for his eirenic approach in church polity and opposition to the National Covenant.
noun:  a Scottish Capuchin friar, known as Father Archangel.
noun:  John Forbes, also known in Portuguese as João Forbes (1719 or 1733–1808), of Skellater, usually known as Forbes-Skellater, was a Scottish general in the Portuguese service.
noun:  John Forbes, M.D. was an English botanist.
noun:  (born 29 January 1970) an Australian sailor who competed in three Olympic Games, winning a bronze medal in Barcelona 1992 and a silver medal at the Sydney 2000 Games.
noun:  (13 January 1862 – 31 January 1928) a Scottish footballer who played in the English Football League for Blackburn Rovers.
noun:  (born October 21, 1956) the Iowa State Representative from the 44th District.
noun:  John Forbes (c. 1673–1734), 4th of Culloden, Inverness, was a Scottish politician who sat in the Parliament of Scotland from 1704 to 1707 and in the British House of Commons from 1713 to 1727.
noun:  a minister of the Church of Scotland in Kilmore, Isle of Skye and a prominent Gaelic scholar.
noun:  (12 July 1931 – 24 February 2017) a South African cricketer.
noun:  (1800 – 25 December 1874) a Presbyterian minister who served in St Paul's Church in Glasgow.
noun:  a British director of the East India Company and Member of Parliament.

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