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Fortune may refer to:
- Luck, a chance happening, or that which happens beyond a person's controls
- Wealth, an abundance of items of economic value
- Fortune, a prediction made in fortune-telling
- Fortune, a printed slip of text contained in a fortune cookie
Places[edit]
- Fortune, Newfoundland and Labrador, a small community in Canada
- Fortune Bay, Newfoundland, Canada
- Fortune, a barangay in Marikina, Philippines
- Fortune, Arkansas, an unincorporated community in the United States
- Fortuna, California or Fortune, California, U.S.
- Fortune Island (disambiguation)
Ships[edit]
- Fortune (1799 ship) was a Dutch vessel, taken in prize c.1799. She became a merchantman that sailed between Liverpool and Denmark–Norway, or Bremen. She made one voyage as a whaler to Greenland, and was lost in 1803.
- Fortune (1800 ship) (or La Fortune) was a French privateer launched at Bordeaux in 1800 and taken that same year. She became a British privateer. She then made two voyages as a slave ship. After the end of the British slave trade Fortune continued to trade with Africa and with South America. She was last listed in 1816.
- Fortune (1805 ship) was a Spanish-built British ship that twice transported convicts to New South Wales
- Fortune (Plymouth Colony ship), a ship that brought settlers to Plymouth Colony
- HMS Fortune, a list of ships named HMS Fortune, including:
- HMS Fortune (1913), an Acasta-class destroyer launched in 1913 and sunk at the Battle of Jutland in 1916
- HMS Fortune (H70), an F-class destroyer launched in 1934
- HMCS Fortune (MCB 151), a Canadian minesweeper
- USS Fortune (1865), a US Navy tugboat
- USS Fortune (IX-146), a US Navy cargo ship
Music[edit]
- Fortune Records, an independent record label in Detroit, Michigan, from 1946 to 1995
- Fortune (band), a short-lived but influential 1980s American rock band
- "Fortune" (Great Big Sea song)
- "Fortune" (song), a song by Nami Tamaki
- Fortune (Chris Brown album) (2012)
- Fortune (Beni album) (2011)
- "Fortune", a 2007 song by Emma Pollock from Watch the Fireworks
Film and television[edit]
- Fortune TV, a Burmese digital Free-to-Air TV channel
- The Fortune, a 1975 film starring Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson and Stockard Channing
- The Face Reader or Fortune, a 2013 Korean film
- Fortune: Million Pound Giveaway, a 2007 British television programme
Theatres[edit]
- Fortune Playhouse, a theatre in London
- Fortune Theatre, a West End theatre in Russell Street, near Covent Garden
- Fortune Theatre, Dunedin, a former professional theatre company
- New Fortune Theatre, a replica of the Fortune Playhouse, at the University of Western Australia, Perth
Publications[edit]
- Fortune (magazine), an American business magazine
- Addis Fortune or Fortune, a newspaper in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Businesses[edit]
- Fortune Brands, a (defunct) holding company
- Fortune Tobacco, a Philippine company
Other uses[edit]
- Fortune (name)
- Fortuna or Fortune, the Roman goddess of luck
- fortune (Unix), a Unix program that displays a random message from a database of quotations
- Fortune (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling alliance
- SS Fortune, a Hansa A type cargo ship in service 1966-68
See also[edit]
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