Bonaventure (disambiguation)

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

People

• Italian saint Bonaventure (John of Fidanza)
  • Pseudo-Bonaventura, a name given to various anonymous medieval writers, whose writings were previously attributed to Saint Bonaventure.

Surname

• Lorenzo di Bonaventura, American film producer
• Segna di Bonaventura, Italian painter
• Simon-Pierre Denys de Bonaventure (1659 – 1711), a 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

Given name

• Bonaventure de Bar (1700 – 1729), French painter
• Bonaventure Baron, 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, Italian mathematician
• Bonaventure Elzevir (1583–1652), Dutch publisher and printer
• Bonaventure Giffard (1642–1734), an English Roman Catholic bishop
• Bonaventure" Hepburn, the nickname of James Hepburn, Scottish linguist and biblical scholar
• Bonaventura Hussey, Irish Franciscan author
• Bonaventure Kalou, Ivorian footballer
• Bonaventure Maruti (b. 1976), a Kenyan football striker
• Bonaventure Panet (1765 – 1846), a businessman and politician in Lower Canada
• Bonaventure Patrick Paul (1929 – 2007), Pakistani Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Hyderabad
• Bonaventure des Périers (c. 1501 – 1544), a French author
• Charles Bonaventure de Longueval (1571 – 1621), a military commander of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War
• Justin Bonaventure Morard de Galles (1741 – 1809), a French admiral
• Louis-Bonaventure Caron (1828 – 1915), a Canadian lawyer, judge and political figure
• Mary Bonaventure Browne (1610 – 1670), Poor Clare and Irish historian

• "Bonaventura" was also the pseudonym of Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann (1777 - 1831), a German writer and theatre director.

Places

Canada

• Bonaventure Regional County Municipality, Quebec
  • City of Bonaventure, Quebec, in the Bonaventure RCM
    • Bonaventure Airport, serving City of Bonaventure
  • Bonaventure River
  • Rivière-Bonaventure, Quebec, an unorganized territory in the Bonaventure RCM
• Saint-Bonaventure, Quebec, in the Centre-du-Québec region
• Bonaventure Island in the Gaspésie region
• former federal electoral district of Bonaventure, now part of Bonaventure—Gaspé—Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Pabok
• Quebec provincial electoral district of Bonaventure
• Place Bonaventure in Montreal which gave its name to the Bonaventure Metro station
• Bonaventure Station, railway station in downtown Montreal, Quebec
• Bonaventure Expressway / Autoroute Bonaventure
• New Bonaventure, Newfoundland and Labrador
• Old Bonaventure, Newfoundland and Labrador

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

Schools

• Saint Bonaventure's College in Newfoundland, Canada
• St. Bonaventure University, located in Allegany, New York, United States
• St Bonaventure's Catholic Comprehensive 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
• nine warships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Bonaventure

Entertainment

• Bonaventure, a play that was made into the 1951 film Thunder on the Hill

See also

• Buenaventura (disambiguation)