Samuel "Sam" Forsyth OBE (1 May 1881 – 24 August 1960) was a Methodist minister and social worker in South Australia.
Born in Aghyaran near Castlederg, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, Forsyth was raised in a devout Methodist family.
In 1901, he migrated to Australia and initially stayed with an uncle, who was the father of Major General John Forsyth.
[1] He moved to South Australia in 1905 to study at W. L. Morton's Hope Lodge Missionary Training College at Belair.
The area, of nearly 1000 acres, was granted by the State Government on perpetual lease on condition that it be used for charitable purposes (the Kuitpo Colony later became a rehabilitation centre).