Sports

• Forrest ''Phog'' Allen

  American basketball coach.

  • Elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1959 (see list of Basketball Hall of Fame)
• Forrest DeBernardi

  American basketball player.

  • Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1961 (see list of Basketball Hall of Fame)
• Forrest Gregg
  • Elected to the Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1977 (see list of Professional Football Hall of Fame)
• Forrest Smithson

  American athlete.

  • 1908 Olympic track and field gold medal winner for 110m Hurdles (see list of Olympic Gold Medalists in Hurdles)
• Forrest Towns

  American athlete.

  • 1936 Olympic track and field gold medal winner for 110m Hurdles (see list of Olympic Gold Medalists in Hurdles)

Stage and Screen

• Forrest Meredith Tucker (born 1919, died 1986)

  American actor.

  • Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Picture (see list of Movie Personalities with Stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame)

The Literary World

• Forrest W. Seymour
  • 1943 Pulitzer Prize winner for Editorial Writing (see list of Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing)
• Forrest Wilson (born 1883, died 1942)

  American journalist and biographer.

  • 1942 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Crusader in Crinoline (see list of Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography)