Google Translate translates 「忘{わす}れたい女」 as "Woman you want to forget".

But it translates 「忘れたい人」 as "People who want to forget".

Is that a correct translation? If so, why is that?

Should it be "People you want to forget"?
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What does 忘れたい人 mean?
It is "correct" because 忘れたい人 can mean _**two**_ different things in Japanese
even though Google Translate gave you only one. Which one it actually means in
a given situation solely depends on the context.

There are phrases that we can use if we absolutely must avoid any ambiguity
even WITHOUT any context, but those can sound kind of wordy to our own native-
speaking ears so we often use the shorter forms just as your examples. **In
real life, after all, there is always context**.

The non-ambiguous forms are:

私 **が** 忘れたい人 = the person(s) that I want to forget

私 **を** （or 私のこと **を** ）忘れたい人 = the person(s) that want(s) to forget me

As always, it is the particle that matters.
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