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Forrest Griffin
Forrest Griffin, American retired MMA fighter from Columbus, Ohio; won The Ultimate Fighter 1 (2005) against Stephan Bonnar, UFC light heavyweight champion 2008, Hall of Famer 2013, later UFC VP of Athlete Development.
Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, adapted from Winston Groom's 1986 novel; it won six Oscars, including Best Picture.
Forrest Gump (novel)
Forrest Gump is a 1986 comic novel by the American writer Winston Groom, narrated by a slow-witted Alabama man who stumbles through football, Vietnam, wrestling, and space flight.
Forrest J Ackerman
Forrest J Ackerman (Forry, 4e, 1916–2008), American fan, editor, literary agent, and collector known as Mr Science Fiction; edited Famous Monsters of Filmland 1958–1983, coined "sci-fi" in 1954, and built the Ackermansion collection.
Forrest Li
Forrest Li (李小冬, Li Xiaodong) is a Singapore-based technology entrepreneur, born in 1978 in Tianjin, who founded Sea Limited in 2009 and serves as its chairman and CEO.
Forrest Mars Sr.
Forrest Edward Mars Sr. was an American confectionery businessman who created M&M's in 1940 and built Mars, Incorporated into one of the world's largest candy companies.
Forrest Smithson
Forrest Custer Smithson (1884-1962), American hurdler for Multnomah AC, won the 1908 London Olympic 110m hurdles in 15.0, the first official world record; the famous Bible-carrying photo was posed.
Forrest Towns
Forrest "Spec" Towns (1914-1991), American 110m hurdler, 1936 Berlin Olympic champion, set world records of 14.1 and 13.7 (first under 14 seconds, stood until 1950), and coached the University of Georgia from 1938 to 1975.
Forrest Tucker
Forrest Tucker (Forrest Meredith Tucker) was an American actor known for nearly a hundred Western and action films and for starring as Sgt. Morgan O'Rourke on F Troop.
Forrest Tucker (criminal)
Forrest Tucker, American career bank robber and escape artist (1930s to 1999), distinct from the F Troop actor of the same name; famous for the 1979 San Quentin kayak escape, the Over the Hill Gang, and United States v. Tucker (1972).
Forrest Wheeler
Forrest Wheeler (韋智林, born 2004) is an American actor who played Emery Huang, middle son on ABC's Fresh Off the Boat (2015-2020), winning 2016 young-ensemble awards; earlier credits include The Incredible Burt Wonderstone and Mortal Kombat: Legacy II.
Forrestal-class aircraft carrier
The Forrestal class was a class of four US Navy aircraft carriers built in the 1950s, led by USS Forrestal, the first carrier designed for jets.
Forrestdale and Thomsons Lakes
Forrestdale and Thomsons Lakes are two seasonal, fresh-to-brackish wetlands in southern Perth, Western Australia, covering 784 hectares and designated a Ramsar site in June 1990.
Forrester Research
Forrester Research, Inc. is an independent research and advisory firm serving leaders in technology, marketing, and product, founded in 1983 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Forró
Forró is a Northeastern Brazilian dance-music genre built on the accordion, zabumba, and triangle, popularized by Luiz Gonzaga and central to June festivals like Caruaru's São João.
Forró pé de serra
Forró pé de serra is the traditional acoustic branch of forró from Northeast Brazil, built on accordion, zabumba, and triangle, and standardized by Luiz Gonzaga.
Forsaken (2015 film)
Forsaken (2015) is a Canadian Western drama directed by Jon Cassar, written by Brad Mirman, starring Kiefer and Donald Sutherland together on screen for the first time, with Demi Moore and Brian Cox; released by Momentum Pictures in 2016.
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Forschungszentrum Jülich, founded in the 1950s as a nuclear research facility, is one of Europe's largest interdisciplinary research centers, with priorities in information, energy, and bioeconomy.
Forsee Power
Forsee Power is a French company founded in 2011 that makes lithium-ion battery systems for electric buses, trucks, off-highway vehicles, and trains, listed on Euronext Paris since 2021.
Forsen
Forsen (Hans Eli Sebastian Fors, born 1990) is a Swedish Twitch streamer and former pro StarCraft II and Hearthstone player, a Miracle Rogue Rank 1 player, Cloud9 streamer since 2017, with about 1.78 million followers and the Forsen Bajs fanbase.
Forseti
Forseti (Old Norse Forseti), Norse Æsir god of justice, son of Baldr and Nanna, judge in the golden-and-silver hall Glitnir per Grímnismál 15 and Snorri's Gylfaginning; name means "presiding one," survives as Icelandic for "president," and is debatedly identical to the Frisian god Fosite.
Forshmak
Forshmak is a cold Ashkenazi Jewish appetizer of chopped salted herring, made as a pâté or spread with onion, hard-boiled egg, bread, apple, and butter or oil.
Forskolin
Forskolin (coleonol), a labdane diterpenoid from Coleus forskohlii roots, directly activates adenylyl cyclase to raise cAMP; a research tool, drug lead, and unproven weight-loss supplement.
Forsmark nuclear power plant
Forsmark nuclear power plant is a Swedish nuclear power station in Östhammar Municipality on the Baltic coast, running three reactors and supplying about one-sixth of Sweden's electricity.
Forspoken
Forspoken is a 2023 action RPG by Luminous Productions and Square Enix for PS5 and PC, following New Yorker Frey Holland in Athia; known for magic parkour and a mixed 64 Metacritic score.
Forsterite
Forsterite is a magnesium silicate mineral, Mg2SiO4, forming the magnesium-rich end of olivine, the most abundant mineral in the Earth's upper mantle; its gem variety is peridot.
Forsyth Barr Stadium
Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin, New Zealand; nicknamed the Glasshouse; world's first permanently roofed stadium with a natural grass pitch; opened 2011; 30,748 capacity; NZ$224.4m cost; ETFE roof; Highlanders' home.
Forsyth County, Georgia
Forsyth County, Georgia: Atlanta suburb with county seat Cumming, created 1832 from Cherokee land and named for Governor John Forsyth. Known for 1912 racial expulsion, 1987 Brotherhood March, rapid growth, and high incomes.
Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States
Forsyth County is a North Carolina county in the Piedmont, carved from Stokes County in 1849 and named for Colonel Benjamin Forsyth; its seat, Winston-Salem, grew from the 1913 merger of Winston and Salem.
Forsythia
Forsythia (golden bells, lian qiao shu) is a genus of about 11 East Asian deciduous shrubs in Oleaceae with yellow early-spring flowers on bare branches; most garden clones derive from the hybrid F. × intermedia, and flowers are heterostylous.