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Fortune (or Fortuné) may refer to:
- Luck, a chance happening, or that which happens beyond a person's controls
- Fortune and Destiny (Gad (deity) and Meni), gods referred to in Isaiah 65:11
- Wealth, an abundance of items of economic value
- Fortune (magazine), America's second longest-running business magazine
- Fortune, California, former name of Fortuna, California
- Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000, their list of the largest public American companies
- Prophecy, the prediction of future events
- fortune, a simple Unix program that displays a random message from a database of quotations
- Fortune cookie, a delicate, crisp cookie baked around a piece of paper with words of faux wisdom or vague prophecy
- Fortuna, the Roman goddess of luck (cf. the Greek Tyche)
- Fortune (ship), the second ship to bring settlers to Plymouth Colony
- Fortune, Newfoundland, small community in Newfoundland
- Fortune (Marikina), one of sixteen barangays in Marikina City
- Reginald Fortune, a fictional detective in works of H. C. Bailey
- A character from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
- Fortune: Million Pound Giveaway, a 2007 television programme screened on ITV1 in the United Kingdom
- Fortune Records, an independent record label located in Detroit, Michigan from 1946 to 1995
- Toyota Fortuner, an SUV
- Fortune, a 2009 US film directed by Peter Scarf.
- People
- Dion Fortune, born Violet Mary Firth, a British occultist and author
- John Fortune, a British comedian best known for his work on the TV series Bremner, Bird and Fortune
- Marc-Antoine Fortuné, a French Guianese football player
- Quinton Fortune, a South African football player
- Robert Fortune, a Scottish botanist and traveller best known for introducing tea plants from China to India
- Scott Fortune, a former member of the United States men's national volleyball team that won the gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Christopher Fortune, better known through stage name 'El Bastardo', an English hip hop musician famous for his work with Tupac Shakur.
- Ships
- HMS Fortune, a British Acasta class destroyer
- HMS Fortune, a British F class destroyer
- Music
- Fortune (band), a French synth pop band created in 2007 who released their first album "Staring at the ice melt" on March 22nd 2010 - official website
- "Fortune" (song), a song by Great Big Sea on their album Sea of No Cares
- "Fortune" (single), a song by Nami Tamaki
- Fortune (band), a short-lived but influential 80s AOR band
The Fortune may refer to:
- The Fortune, a 1975 film starring Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson and Stockard Channing
- Fortune Playhouse, historic theatre in London
- Fortune Theatre, a 432 seat West End theatre in Russell Street, near Covent Garden
- Fortune Theatre (New Zealand), the world's southernmost professional theatre company