Forbes


Gender:
Origin: Gaelic
375 famous people named Forbes found on Wikipedia.
205 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 9952-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 2302-th in year 1945
Used in: Scottish

Meanings

Forbes is a surname. It derives from the Scottish Clan Forbes (after a toponym, from Gaelic forba "field"). Descendants of the Scottish clan are also present in Ireland from the 17th century. The name of an unrelated Irish sept, Mac Fhirbhisigh or MacFirbis, was also anglicised as Forbes.

U.S. financial publication, founded 1917 by Scottish-born Wall Street journalist B.C. Forbes (1880-1954) and publisher Walter Drey.

Combine of Gaelic forba (field, district) and locative suffix -ais.

Famous People: 375 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Michelle Forbes 1965 American actress
2 Malcolm Forbes 1919 Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
3 Bryn Forbes 1993
4 China Forbes 1970 Singer, songwriter
5 Bryan Forbes 1926 English film director, screenwriter and actor
6 Emma Forbes 1965 English radio and television presenter
7 Maya Forbes 1968 American screenwriter and director
8 Randy Forbes 1952 American politician
9 Forbes Burnham 1923 Guyanese politician
10 Bertie Charles Forbes 1880 American journalist
11 Moira Forbes 1979 US American female journalist
12 Derek Forbes 1956 British musician
13 Gary Forbes 1985 American basketball player
14 Caroline Forbes Fictional human
15 Charles R. Forbes 1878 American soldier
16 Ralph Forbes 1904 Actor
17 Esther Forbes 1891 Novelist
18 Gregory S. Forbes 1950 American meteorologist
19 DJ Forbes 1982 New Zealand rugby union player
20 Forbes March 1973 Canadian actor
21 Christopher Forbes 1951 Businessperson
22 BJ Forbes 1998 Filipino actor
23 Felicio Brown Forbes 1991 German footballer
24 Forbes Masson 1963 Scottish actor, director and writer
25 Edward Forbes 1815 Naturalist
26 Sean Forbes 1982 Hip hop musician
27 Stanhope Forbes 1857 British artist
28 Mary Forbes 1879 Actress
29 Kristin Forbes 1970 American economist
30 Forbes Carlile 1921 20th-century Australian Olympic swimming coach
31 Forbes Smiley 1956 American thief
32 William Cameron Forbes 1870 American diplomat
33 Jonathan Forbes 1976 Actor
34 Jesse Forbes 1984 American sport wrestler and martial artist
35 James David Forbes 1809 Scottish physicist and glaciologist
36 Kathryn Forbes 1908 American writer
37 James A. Forbes 1935 American minister
38 George L. Forbes 1931 American politician
39 Michael Forbes 1952 American politician
40 Billy Forbes 1990 Turks and Caicos footballer
41 Ross Forbes 1989 Scottish footballer
42 Walter Forbes American businessman
43 Fiona Forbes Canadian television host
44 Kate Forbes 1990 Scottish politician
45 Charles Forbes 1880 Royal Navy admiral of the fleet
46 Robert Bennet Forbes 1804 American businessman
47 Terrell Forbes 1981 English footballer
48 Brenda Forbes 1909 British actress
49 Jack D. Forbes 1934 American academic
50 Forbes Collins British actor
51 Elliot Forbes 1917 20th century American conductor
52 Meriel Forbes 1913 British actress
53 Forbes Cowan 1964 British strength athlete
54 John Malcolm Forbes 1847 American yacht racer
55 Stephen Alfred Forbes 1844 American naturalist
56 Adrian Forbes 1979 Footballer
57 Rosita Forbes 1890 British writer and explorer
58 Gordon Forbes 1934 South African tennis player
59 Alan Forbes 1969 American artist
60 Alex Forbes 1925 Scottish footballer
61 Ali Forbes 1961
62 Alexander Kinloch Forbes 1821 Scholar of the Gujarati language and a colonial administrator in British India
63 Dave Forbes 1948 Canadian ice hockey player
64 Frank Forbes 1891 American baseball player
65 Edwin Forbes 1839 American painter, printmaker and etcher
66 Thayne Forbes 1938 British judge
67 Kieron Forbes 1990 Footballer
68 Henry Ogg Forbes 1851 Scottish explorer, ornithologist and botanist
69 Josh Forbes American director
70 William S. Forbes 1831 American physician
71 Forbes Kennedy 1935 Canadian ice hockey player
72 Forbes Phillipson-Masters 1955 Professional footballer
73 Forbes Howie 1920 RAF officer and businessman
74 Lisa Forbes 1981 American beauty pageant contestant
75 Dee Forbes 1967
76 Alastair Forbes 1908 British judge
77 Archibald Forbes 1838 British war correspondent
78 Tim Forbes American publisher
79 Francis Blackwell Forbes 1839 China merchant, opium trader and botanist
80 Category:Jorge Forbes
81 Simone Forbes 1981 Jamaican sports woman
82 Miguel R. Forbes American media executive
83 Francis Forbes 1784 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland, and of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
84 Jim Forbes 1923 Australian politician
85 Tracey Forbes Canadian screenwriter and producer
86 Bart Forbes 1939 American Illustrator and Contemporary Artist
87 Kenardo Forbes 1988 Jamaican association football player
88 Elizabeth Forbes 1924 Author, music critic and musicologist
89 Daniel Forbes 1920 US Army Air Force officer
90 Hazel Forbes 1910 American actress and dancer
91 Blondie Forbes American poker player
92 Patrick William Forbes 1861 British colonial admnistrator
93 Damar Forbes 1990 Long jumper
94 Edward Waldo Forbes 1873 Harvard art historian and director of the Fogg Art Museum
95 Patrick Forbes 1564 Bishop of Aberdeen
96 P. J. Forbes 1967 American baseball player
97 Nigel Forbes, 22nd Lord Forbes 1918 Scottish politician, soldier, peer, aristocrat; Grenadier Guards officer
98 Bruce Forbes 1948 American minister
99 Robert Jacobus Forbes 1900 Dutch chemist and historian
100 William Hathaway Forbes 1840 American businessman.
101 Forbes Johnston 1971 Scottish footballer
102 Colin Forbes 1976 Canadian ice hockey player
103 Alexander Forbes, 1st Lord Forbes Scottish nobleman
104 Nick Forbes 1973
105 Donald Forbes 1935 British murderer
106 Kenneth Forbes 1892 Canadian artist
107 James Alexander Forbes 1805 British diplomat
108 David McHattie Forbes 1863 Scottish botanist, ethnologist, sugar plantation manager and explorer
109 Delanie Forbes 1976 British actress
110 F. A. Forbes 1869 Scottish Religious Sister and biographer
111 Stefan Forbes American film director
112 Watson Forbes 1909 British musician
113 Graham Forbes 1951 Episcopalian priest
114 Mrs Willie James née Evelyn Elizabeth Forbes 1867 Social figure
115 John Murray Forbes 1771 American diplomat
116 Jason Forbes 1990
117 Sheila Forbes 1946 British businessman
118 Jake Forbes 1897 Canadian ice hockey player
119 Elena Forbes British writer
120 Hamish Forbes 1916 British Army officer
121 Jake T. Forbes American journalist
122 Ivan Forbes 1986 Portuguese footballer
123 James Staats Forbes 1823 Scottish railway engineer, railway administrator and art collector
124 Sebastian Forbes British composer
125 Jean-Charles Forbes 1921
126 Jane Trefusis Forbes 1899 First Director of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force
127 Jenn Forbes Australian singer-songwriter
128 Forbes Robinson 1926 British opera singer
129 Mary Lou Forbes 1926 American journalist
130 Hikairo Forbes 1986 Rugby union player
131 William Alexander Forbes 1855 British zoologist
132 Rachide Forbes 1989 Bissau-Guinean footballer
133 Forbes Benignus Winslow 1810 British psychiatrist and author
134 Rob Forbes
135 Donovan Forbes American football player
136 Thelma Forbes 1910 Canadian politician
137 Scott Forbes 1976 English footballer
138 W. J. Forbes 1874 American sports coach
139 Sashalee Forbes 1996
140 William E. Forbes 1906 American businessman
141 Keith Forbes 1906 Australian footballer
142 Steve Forbes 1975 English footballer
143 Charles Noyes Forbes 1883 American botanist
144 James Forbes, 17th Lord Forbes 1765 British Army general
145 Forbes George Vernon 1843 Canadian politician
146 Edwin Alexander Forbes Adjutant General of California
147 George Forbes 1945 British businessman
148 Mike Forbes 1957 Canadian ice hockey player
149 Clifton Forbes 1946 Jamaican sprinter
150 Anne Forbes 1745
151 Robert Pierce Forbes 1958 American historian
152 Harry Forbes 1879 American boxer
153 Robert Forbes 1886 American football player and coach
154 Kimika Forbes 1990 Trinidadian association football player
155 Ronald Forbes 1947
156 Stuart Forbes 1876 American football player and coach
157 Vivian Forbes 1891 Painter
158 David Forbes 1828 British scientist
159 Boniek Forbes 1983 Footballer
160 Roy Forbes 1922 Canadian ice hockey player
161 Darian Forbes 1984 Turks and Caicos Islands sprinter
162 Willie Forbes 1922 Scottish footballer
163 Walter Forbes, 18th Lord Forbes 1798 British noble
164 Maurice Forbes 1987 Canadian football player
165 John Forbes 1733 Scottish general in the Portuguese service
166 James Forbes, 16th Lord Forbes British politician
167 Ian Forbes 1980 Canadian ice hockey defenceman
168 Charlie Forbes 1865 Australian rules footballer
169 Sarah Forbes Canadian field hockey player
170 Joseph Barlow Forbes 1840 Union Army soldier and teacher
171 Marlon Forbes 1971 American football player
172 John Ripley Forbes 1913 American conservationist
173 Fred Forbes 1894 Scottish footballer
174 Thomas Forbes 1900 British writer
175 Frederick Augustus Forbes 1818 Australian politician
176 Carlton Forbes 1936 English cricketer
177 Forbes Macbean 1725 British officer
178 Dwayne Forbes 1989 Bahamian footballer
179 Josephine Forbes 1970 Australian scientist
180 Jaclyn Forbes 2000 Canadian actress
181 Irene Forbes 1949 Cuban fencer
182 Alex S. Forbes Scottish footballer
183 Forbes Hendry 1908 British politician
184 Harrison Forbes 1969 Animal behaviour researcher
185 Alexander Forbes 1564 Bishop of Aberdeen
186 Stanton Forbes 1923 American writer
187 Pepe Forbes 1917 British boxer
188 Marshall Forbes 1980 Footballer
189 James Fraser Forbes 1820 Canadian politician
190 Norene Forbes 1914 American swimmer, Olympic athlete
191 Duncan Forbes 1947 British poet
192 Peter Forbes 1952 Scottish actor
193 John Morrison Forbes 1925 Royal Navy admiral
194 William Forbes 1614 Scottish soldier in the Swedish service
195 Forbes Champagné British Army general
196 Karyn Forbes 1991 Trinidadian association football player
197 Archie Forbes 1913 British colonial administrator
198 William Howell Forbes 1837
199 Cameron Forbes Australian journalist and author
200 Kelly Forbes 1973 Canadian skeleton racer