Bonaventure (disambiguation)

Bonaventure, or the Latin original form Bonaventura, means "good fortune" and may refer to:

People

Given name

• Italian saint Bonaventure (John of Fidanza) (1221–1274)
  • Pseudo-Bonaventure, a name given to various anonymous medieval writers whose writings were previously attributed to Saint Bonaventure
• Bonaventure de Bar (1700–1729), French painter
• Bonaventure Baron (1610–1696), Irish Franciscan theologian, philosopher and writer of Latin prose and verse
• Bonaventure Broderick (1868–1943), the Coadjutor Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana
• Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598–1647), Italian mathematician
• Bonaventure Elzevir (1583–1652), Dutch publisher and printer
• Bonaventure Giffard (1642–1734), English Roman Catholic bishop
• Bonaventure Hepburn (1573–1620/1), Scottish linguist and biblical scholar
• Bonaventura Hussey (Maelbrighte Ó Hussey) (died 1614), Irish Franciscan author
• Bonaventure Kalou (born 1978), Ivorian footballer
• Bonaventure Maruti (born 1976), a Kenyan football striker
• Bonaventure Panet (1765–1846), a businessman and politician in Lower Canada
• Bonaventure Patrick Paul (1929–2007), Pakistani bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hyderabad
• Bonaventure des Périers (c. 1501–1544), French author
• Bonaventura, pseudonym of Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann (1777–1831), a German writer and theatre director
• Bonaventura Moller, inheritor (year 1625.) of Bonaventura mannor, located near Riga, Latvia

Surname

• Braniff Bonaventure, American football player
• Giacomo Bonaventura, Italian football player
• Lorenzo di Bonaventura, American film producer
• Segna di Bonaventura, Italian painter
• Simon-Pierre Denys de Bonaventure (1659–1711), French officer in the colonial navy of New France
• Thomasine, Lady Percival, née Thomasine Bonaventure (c. 1470-c. 1530), English benefactress and founder of a school
• Ysaline Bonaventure, Belgian tennis player

Places

Canada

• Bonaventure Regional County Municipality, Quebec
  • City of Bonaventure, Quebec, in the Bonaventure RCM
    • Bonaventure Airport, serving City of Bonaventure
  • Bonaventure River
• Bonaventure Island in the Gaspésie region
• Bonaventure (electoral district), a former federal electoral district
• Bonaventure (provincial electoral district), a Quebec provincial electoral district
• Place Bonaventure in Montreal which gave its name to the
• Bonaventure (Montreal Metro) station
• Bonaventure Station, railway station in downtown Montreal, Quebec
• Quebec Autoroute 10, also called the Bonaventure Expressway and Autoroute Bonaventure

United States

• St. Bonaventure, New York, a census-designated place and community in Allegany
• Westin Bonaventure Hotel, the largest hotel in Los Angeles, California
• Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia
• Bonaventura (VTA), light-rail station in San Jose

Latvia

• Bonaventuras iela (Bonaventura street), Riga, Latvia

Corporate

• Bonaventure India Pvt Ltd in New Delhi (NCR), India

Entertainment

• Bonaventure, a play that was made into the 1951 film Thunder on the Hill
• Signor Bonaventura, an Italian comic strip

Schools

• Saint Bonaventure's College in Newfoundland, Canada
• St. Bonaventure University, located in Allegany, New York, United States
• St Bonaventure's Catholic School, in Forest Gate, London Borough of Newham, United Kingdom
• St Bonaventure's High School, a school located in Hyderabad, Sindh province, Pakistan
• St. Bonaventure High School, a private, Catholic, co-educational secondary school in Ventura, California, United States

Ships

• Canadian aircraft carrier, HMCS Bonaventure (CVL 22)
• nine warships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Bonaventure

Transit

• Bonaventure station (disambiguation), stations of the name

See also

• Old and New Bonaventure, Newfoundland and Labrador, small communities
• Buenaventura (disambiguation)