Forty Thieves

Forty Thieves or 40 Thieves can mean:

• the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Groups of people

• the Forty Thieves (New York gang), an 18th-century New York street gang
• The Forty Thieves (New York City Common Council 1852–1853)
• the Forty Elephants, an all-female London criminal gang
• The nickname for the participants in the 1921 Cairo Conference.
• 40 Thieves, men's lacrosse club based out of San Diego, California

Games

• Forty Thieves (card game)

Ships

• The Vengeur-class ships of the line, whose notoriously poor construction caused them to become known as the "forty thieves."

Theatre, film and TV

• The Forty Thieves, an 1878 British pantomime version of the Ali Baba story.
• The Forty Thieves, an 1869 burlesque performed on Broadway
• Forty Thieves, a 1944 Hopalong Cassidy Western film.

Music

• "40 Thieves" (A Loss for Words song) redirect