Fortune

Fortune (or Fortuné) may refer to:

General concepts

• Luck, a chance happening, or that which happens beyond a person's controls
• Wealth, an abundance of items of economic value
• Prophecy, the prediction of future events
  • Fortune, the predictions made in the process of fortune-telling
  • Fortune, the printed slip of text contained in a fortune cookie
• Fortune, an alternative spelling of Fortuna, the Roman goddess of luck (cf. the Greek Tyche)

People:

• Amos Fortune (citizen of Jaffrey) (ca. 1710-1801), African American ex-slave and businessman
• Dion Fortune (1890-1946), born Violet Mary Firth, British occultist and author
• Jesse Fortune (1930-2009), American Chicago blues singer
• Jimmy Fortune (born 1955), American country music singer
• John Fortune (born 1939), British comedian best known for his work on the TV series Bremner, Bird and Fortune
• Marc-Antoine Fortuné, French Guianese football player
• Quinton Fortune (born 1977), South African football player
• Robert Fortune (1812-1880), Scottish botanist and traveller best known for introducing tea plants from China to India
• Rose Fortune (1774-1864), African American businessperson and first female police officer in Canada
• Scott Fortune (born 1966), American former volleyball player
• Seán Fortune (died 1999), Irish priest and alleged child molester
• Sonny Fortune (born 1939), American jazz musician
• Timothy Thomas Fortune (1856–1928), American orator, civil rights leader, journalist, writer, editor and publisher
• Victor Fortune (1883-1949), British Army major general
• Fortune Gallo (1878-1970), opera impresario
• Fortune Gordien (1922-1990), American athlete, primarily in the discus throw

Places:

• Fortune, California, former name of Fortuna, California
• Fortune, Newfoundland and Labrador, a small community in Canada
• Fortune Bay, Newfoundland, Canada
• Fortune (Marikina), one of sixteen barangays in Marikina City

Ships:

• Fortune (ship), second ship to bring settlers to Plymouth Colony
• HMS Fortune (1913), British destroyer
• HMS Fortune (H70), British destroyer
• HMCS Fortune (MCB 151), Canadian minesweeper
• USS Fortune (1865), US Navy tugboat

In music:

• Fortune Records, an independent record label in Detroit, Michigan from 1946 to 1995
• Fortune (band), a short-lived but influential 1980s AOR band
• Fortune (Swedish band), a 1990s four-piece band
• "Fortune" (song), a song by Great Big Sea on their album Sea of No Cares
• "Fortune" (Nami Tamaki song), a song by Nami Tamaki
• Fortune (Chris Brown album), a 2012 album by American singer Chris Brown

In entertainment:

• The Fortune, a 1975 film starring Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson and Stockard Channing
• Fortune, a 2009 US film directed by Peter Scarf
• Fortune: Million Pound Giveaway, a 2007 television programme screened on ITV1 in the United Kingdom

Fictional characters:

• Amos Fortune (comics), DC Comics supervillain
• Anna Fortune, DC Comics character
• Dominic Fortune, Marvel Comics character
• Reginald Fortune, a fictional detective of H. C. Bailey
• A character from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

Theatres:

• Fortune Playhouse, historic theatre in London
• Fortune Theatre, a 432 seat West End theatre in Russell Street, near Covent Garden
• Fortune Theatre, Dunedin, the world's southernmost professional theatre company

In business:

• Fortune (magazine), America's second longest-running business magazine
• Addis Fortune, also known as Fortune, a newspaper in Addis Ababa, Ethiopa
• Fortune Brands, a holding company
• Fortune Tobacco, a Philippine company

Other uses:

• Fortune (Unix), a simple Unix program that displays a random message from a database of quotations
• Fortune (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling alliance

See also

• Fortuna (disambiguation)

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