Forte
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Forte/Forté may refer to:
- Forte, an individual's strongest talent or greatest strength ("Preparing gourmet cuisine is his forte")
- Forte (music), a musical dynamic meaning "loudly" or "strong"
- Forte (fencing), a fencing term for the "strong" part of the blade
- Forte (film), a defunct manufacturer of sheet film
- Trust House Forte, a British hotel and catering firm
[edit] People
Forte/Forté is a human surname of:
- Allen Forte (1926-), an American music theorist and musicologist
- Bruno Forte (1949-), an Italian theologian and ecclesiastic
- Charles Forte, Baron Forte (1908-2007), a famous hotelier
- Sir Rocco Forte, son of Charles Forte, Baron Forte who inherited the hotel business
- John Forté (1975-), an imprisoned musician.
- Joe Forte, an American writer and painter
- Joseph Xavier "Joe" Forte, an American professional basketball player
- Will Forte (1970-), Orville Willis "Will" Forte IV, a cast member of Saturday Night Live
- Jonathan Forte (1985-), an English football player, playing for Scunthorpe United F.C.
[edit] Fictional characters
In some fictional stories, writers choose to use fanciful words such as Forte or Forté as given names. Characters with such names include:
- Forté, a character in Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
- Bass (Mega Man), a fictional video game character whose name in Japan is "Forte"
- Bass.EXE, a fictional character from the MegaMan NT Warrior series who is based of his video game counterpart. His name in Japan is also "Forte"
- Forte Stollen, a fictional character from the Galaxy Angel anime
- The dog named Forte appears on Quintet.
[edit] Technology
- FORTE (satellite), the Fast On-orbit Rapid Recording of Transient Events satellite
- Forte 4GL, a proprietary application server
- Forté Agent, an email and news client used on the Windows operating system
- Forte TeamWare, a family of development environments from Sun Microsystems
[edit] Company
- Forte Land, a large-scale real estate company in Shanghai, China
- Forte Group, a former British hotel company
- Forte Films, an up and coming video production company