Fortune

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Fortune 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 500 and Fortune 1000, their list of the largest public American companies
• Prophecy, the prediction of future events
  • fortune (Unix), a simple 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
• 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

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
• 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

Music

• "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