Franklin Lindsey Forbes (March 30, 1891 – August 19, 1983) was a minor league baseball player and American football and basketball coach.
He played professional baseball for six seasons in the Northeastern United States.
Forbes served three stints as the head football coach (1932–1933, 1935–1942, 1945–1949) at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.Morehouse's Forbes Arena is named after him.