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Fortune
Fortuné)
Fortune (or Fortuné may refer to: • Fortune, Newfoundland and Labrador, a small
General concepts community in Canada
• Luck, a chance happening, or that which happens • Fortune Bay, Newfoundland, Canada
beyond a person’s controls • Fortune (Marikina), one of sixteen barangays in
• Wealth, an abundance of items of economic value Marikina City
• Prophecy, the prediction of future events Ships:
Ships
• Fortune, the predictions made in the process of • Fortune (ship), second ship to bring settlers to
fortune-telling Plymouth Colony
• Fortune, the printed slip of text contained in a • HMS Fortune (1913), British destroyer
fortune cookie • HMS Fortune (H70), British destroyer
• Fortune, an alternative spelling of Fortuna, the • HMCS Fortune (MCB 151), Canadian minesweeper
Roman goddess of luck (cf. the Greek Tyche) • USS Fortune (1865), US Navy tugboat
People:
People music:
In music
• Amos Fortune (citizen of Jaffrey) (ca. 1710-1801), • Fortune Records, an independent record label in
African American ex-slave and businessman Detroit, Michigan from 1946 to 1995
• Dion Fortune (1890-1946), born Violet Mary Firth, • Fortune (band), a short-lived but influential 1980s
British occultist and author AOR band
• Jesse Fortune (1930-2009), American Chicago blues • Fortune (Swedish band), a 1990s four-piece band
singer • "Fortune" (song), a song by Great Big Sea on their
• Jimmy Fortune (born 1955), American country music album Sea of No Cares
singer • "Fortune" (Nami Tamaki song), a song by Nami
• John Fortune (born 1939), British comedian best Tamaki
known for his work on the TV series Bremner, Bird • Fortune (Chris Brown album), a 2012 album by
and Fortune American singer Chris Brown
• Marc-Antoine Fortuné, French Guianese football entertainment:
In entertainment
player • The Fortune, a 1975 film starring Warren Beatty, Jack
• Quinton Fortune (born 1977), South African football Nicholson and Stockard Channing
player • Fortune, a 2009 US film directed by Peter Scarf
• Robert Fortune (1812-1880), Scottish botanist and • Fortune: Million Pound Giveaway, a 2007 television
traveller best known for introducing tea plants from programme screened on ITV1 in the United Kingdom
China to India characters:
Fictional characters
• Rose Fortune (1774-1864), African American • Amos Fortune (comics), DC Comics supervillain
businessperson and first female police officer in • Anna Fortune, DC Comics character
Canada • Dominic Fortune, Marvel Comics character
• Scott Fortune (born 1966), American former • Reginald Fortune, a fictional detective of H. C. Bailey
volleyball player • A character from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
• Seán Fortune (died 1999), Irish priest and alleged Theatres:
Theatres
child molester • Fortune Playhouse, historic theatre in London
• Sonny Fortune (born 1939), American jazz musician • Fortune Theatre, a 432 seat West End theatre in
• Timothy Thomas Fortune (1856–1928), American Russell Street, near Covent Garden
orator, civil rights leader, journalist, writer, editor • Fortune Theatre, Dunedin, the world’s southernmost
and publisher professional theatre company
• Victor Fortune (1883-1949), British Army major business:
In business
general • Fortune (magazine), America’s second longest-
• Fortune Gallo (1878-1970), opera impresario running business magazine
• Fortune Gordien (1922-1990), American athlete, • Addis Fortune, also known as Fortune, a newspaper in
primarily in the discus throw Addis Ababa, Ethiopa
Places:
Places • Fortune Brands, a holding company
• Fortune, California, former name of Fortuna, • Fortune Tobacco, a Philippine company
California uses:
Other uses
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fortune
• Fortune (Unix), a simple Unix program that displays a
random message from a database of quotations
See also
• Fortune (professional wrestling), a professional • Fortuna (disambiguation)
wrestling alliance
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