David Walter Foster, O.C., O.B.C., LL.D. (born November 1, 1949 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian musician, producer, composer and arranger. .
David "Big Dave" Foster OAM (born 20 March 1957) is a world champion woodchopper, and Tasmanian community figure.
He started woodchopping with his father, George Foster, in 1978, and between them they won the World 600 mm Double-handed Sawing Championship eleven years straight. He and his brother Peter Foster continued competing and winning this event for another ten years, until 1999, making David a world champion 21 years straight. The pair lost in 2000, but re-gained the championship in 2001, after which David's son Stephen took over as his woodchopping partner.
His other achievements in woodchopping include winning the Australian Axeman of the Year award nine times in a row; winning every major woodchopping event in Australia and New Zealand; becoming the first person in sporting history to have won 1000 championships; and been the only axeman to have ever won six out of seven championships at the Royal Sydney Show.
Foster has received several awards for his cultural, charitable and community activities. These include being awarded an Order of Australia Medal, a commendation from the then Governor of Tasmania Sir Phillip Bennett, and an Anzac Medal for services to the community. He also received a Tasmanian of the Year award in 1995, and was appointed a Director of the National Australia Day Council in 1998.
David Foster is often joined in his charitable quests by Launceston cricketer, David Boon. Both Foster and Boon, as well as then Premier of Tasmania Jim Bacon, also willingly allowed their famous moustaches to be shaved off for charity.
The Australian Axeman's Hall of Fame in Latrobe, Tasmania, is operated by David Foster and his wife Jan.
Foster has written a book called The Power Of Two.
David Foster is a British news anchor working for Al Jazeera English. He has had many years of experience as a journalist, covering stories in more than 50 countries. In the last year he has been in Finland, India, Mauritania, Western Sahara and Afghanistan preparing reports for Al Jazeera English launch.
He came to Al Jazeera English from Sky News, the UK-based satellite news channel, where for almost ten years he was a studio news presenter and business correspondent. In the 1980s (as senior correspondent for Britain’s first commercial TV breakfast news show – TV-am’s Good Morning Britain), he was in Beirut to report on the Lebanese civil war and was in Libya in 1986 when American warplanes bombed Tripoli.
He moved to the US in 1988 to begin a 5 year stint as US correspondent, based in Washington DC, for TV-am, before returning to the UK, where he became anchor for Westcountry Live before moving to Sky News
David Foster (born 1944) is a contemporary Australian novelist, poet and writer of non-fiction.
David Foster was born in Katoomba, New South Wales and grew up in the Blue Mountains. He studied science at University of Sydney and took a doctorate from Australian National University. He has worked as a research scientist, truck driver, postie and on a prawn trawler as well as writing. The subjects of his novels range from rock music to ancient mythology, with some characters like D'Arcy D'Oliveres, the comic post-man of several novels, taking something from his previous employment. He has been a University of New South Wales Literary Fellow.
