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'''Ventura''' ([[Italian language|Italian]] for [[Luck]]) is the name of several places in the United States of America: |
'''Ventura''' ([[Italian language|Italian]] for [[Luck]] and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] for adventure) is the name of several places in the United States of America: |
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*[[Ventura, California]] |
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Ventura (Italian for Luck and Portuguese for adventure) is the name of several places in the United States of America:
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)