Forman may refer to:

Places:

• Forman, North Dakota, city in Sargent County, North Dakota, United States
• Forman, West Virginia, unincorporated community in Grant County, West Virginia, United States
• Forman Glacier between Mount Franke and Mount Cole, in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica
• Forman Park, in Syracuse, New York

Surname:

• A. G. Forman CBE (1910–1967), Chief of Naval Staff of the Ghana Navy
• Al Forman (1928–2013), baseball umpire
• Alexander A. Forman (1843–1922), American soldier in the American Civil War
• Alison Forman (born 1969), Australian soccer player
• Andrew Forman (1465–1521), Scottish diplomat and Archbishop
• Arthur Forman (1850–1905), English schoolmaster and cricketer
• Bill Forman (1886–1958), baseball player
• Bill Forman (1915–?), radio announcer and actor
• Bruce Forman (born 1956), American jazz guitarist
• Carol Forman (1918–1997), American actress
• Charles William Forman (1821–1894), Presbyterian missionary in Pakistan
• Christine Jones Forman, American astrophysicist
• Craig Forman (born 1961), CEO of McClatchy
• David Forman (general) (1745–1797), brigadier general of New Jersey militia
• Denis Forman (1917–2013), Scottish television executive
• Donnie Forman (born 1926), American basketball player
• Frank Forman (1875–1961), English footballer
• Fred Forman (1873–1910), English footballer
• Frederick Forman (1884–1960), English cricketer
• Gar Forman, American basketball executive
• Gayle Forman (born 1978), American young adult fiction author
• George V. Forman (1841–1922), founder of VanderGrift, Forman & Company
• Harrison Forman (1904–1978), American photographer and journalist
• Harry Buxton Forman CB (1842–1917), Victorian-era bibliographer and antiquarian bookseller
• Henry James Forman (1879–1966), author famous for his 1933 book Our Movie Made Children
• Henry Jay Forman, professor at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
• Howard Forman (born 1946), American politician in the state of Florida
• Humphrey Forman (1888–1923), English cricketer
• Ira Forman (born 1952), director of the National Jewish Democratic Council
• James Forman (1928–2005), figure in the Civil Rights Movement
• Joey Forman (1929–1982), American comedian and comic actor
• John Forman (British politician) (1884–1975), British insurance agent and politician
• John Forman (martyr), Protestant martyr burned at the stake in East Grinstead, England in 1556
• John Forman (Nova Scotia politician) (1798–1832), Canadian lawyer, judge and political figure
• John Forman (sport shooter) (1925–1998), American sports shooter
• John Forman (trade unionist) (1823–1900), British trade unionist
• Justus Miles Forman (1875–1915), American novelist and playwright
• L. J. Forman (1855–1933), Republican President of the West Virginia Senate
• Lewis Leonard Forman (1929–1998), British botanist
• Melissa Forman (born 1970), American radio and TV personality
• Miloš Forman (1932-2018), Czech film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor
• Miriam Forman, American astrophysicist
• Miroslav Forman (born 1990), Czech ice hockey player
• Mitchel Forman (born 1956), jazz and fusion keyboard player
• Nigel Forman (1943–2017), British Conservative politician
• Oscar Forman (born 1982), Australian basketball player
• Paul Forman (born 1937), American curator
• Peter Forman (born 1958), CEO of the South Shore (MA) Chamber of Commerce
• Phillip Forman (1895–1978), American lawyer and judge
• Rab Forman, Scottish solicitor and Conservative Party politician
• Ric Forman, American winemaker, vineyard manager and consultant
• Richard Forman, landscape ecologist
• Robert Forman (died 1530), late medieval Scottish churchman
• Robert K. C. Forman, professor of religion at the City University of New York
• Ron Forman (born 1948), head of the Audubon Nature Institute
• Ruth Forman, American poet
• Sadie Forman (1929–2014), South African teacher, librarian and anti-apartheid activist
• Simon Forman (1552–1611), Elizabethan astrologer, occultist and herbalist
• Sol Forman (1903–2001), American restaurateur
• Stanley Forman (born 1945), American photojournalist
• Terry Forman (born 1948), Australian rugby player
• Thomas Forman (priest) (1885–1965), Archdeacon of Lindisfarne
• Thomas Forman (reformer) (1493–1528), early English reformer, President of Queens' College, Cambridge
• Thomas Marsh Forman (1809–1875), Confederate politician
• Tom Forman (actor) (1893–1926), American film actor, director, writer, and producer
• Tom Forman (cartoonist) (1936–1996), American comic strip cartoonist
• Tom Forman (footballer) (1879–1911), footballer
• Tom Forman (producer), television producer
• Werner Forman (1921–2010), Czech photographer
• William St. John Forman (1847–1908), U.S. Representative from Illinois

Given name:

• Forman S. Acton (1920–2014), American computer scientist, engineer, educator and author
• Forman Brown (1901–1996), leader in puppet theatre, early gay novelist
• Ezekiel Forman Chambers (1788–1867), American politician
• William Forman Creighton (1909–1987), bishop of the Diocese of Washington
• Robb Forman Dew, American author

• Cornelius Forman Hatfield (1828–1910), merchant, shipbuilder, ship owner and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada
• Robert Forman Horton (1855–1934), British Nonconformist divine, born in London
• Arthur Forman Balfour Paul (1875–1938), Scottish architect
• Frazier Forman Peters (1895–1963), American builder and architect specializing in stone houses
• Stanley Forman Reed (1884–1980), American attorney, United States Solicitor General
• Robert Forman Six (1907–1986), CEO of Continental Airlines
• Forman Waye (1886–1967), Canadian merchant, machinist and political figure
• Joshua Forman Wilkinson (1798–1862), lawyer and first Postmaster of Bogardus Corners, Cossit's Corners and Salina in Central New York

Fictional characters:

• Eric Forman (That '70s Show), a character in That '70s Show
• Kitty Forman, a character in That '70s Show
• Laurie Forman, a character in That '70s Show
• Red Forman, a character in That '70s Show