Ventura

Ventura (Italian for Luck and Portuguese for adventure) is the name of several places in the United States of America:

• Ventura, California
• Ventura, Iowa
• Ventura County, California

Ventura may also refer to one of the following people:

• Charlie Ventura, American band leader
• Giampiero Ventura, Italian football coach
• Jean-Baptiste Ventura (ca. 1792-?), Italian-born soldier, mercenary and adventurer
• Jesse Ventura (born 1951), American wrestler and politician
• Johnny Ventura (born 1940), Dominican composer and singer
• Lino Ventura (1919-1987), Italian-French movie actor
• Robin Ventura (born 1967), American baseball player
• Sheherazade Ventura (born 1974), English socialite and environmentalist
• Yolanda Ventura (born 1968), Spanish-born singer and actress
• Zuenir Ventura (born 1931), Brazilian journalist and writer
• Ventura Rodriguez, Spanish architect

Ventura may also refer to:

• Ace Ventura, fictional movie character, as in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
• Lockheed Ventura, World War II aircraft
• Pontiac Ventura, automobile produced by General Motors
• Ventura Bus Lines, Australian bus and coach company
• Corel Ventura, software package from Corel Corporation
• Ventura printers from Granada
• Ventura (watchmaker), maker of Swiss watches
• Ventura (ship), a P&O Cruises ship
• Las Venturas, San Andreas - a fictional city in the Grand Theft Auto series of video games based on Las Vegas, Nevada
• The Ventura, a timeshare development in Boca Raton, Florida, managed by Trading Places International
• Ventura is model of domestic pressure cooker manufactured and marketed by Hawkins Cookers Limited , Mumbai, India.
• A silly dance accompanied by a hypnotic call to call down aliens in the anime series Urusei Yatsura.
• A band from Lausanne in Switzerland.
• A fictional casino planet in DC Comics

See also

• Boa Ventura (disambiguation)