Fortuna (disambiguation)

Look up Fortuna or fortuna in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Fortuna is the Roman goddess of luck.

Fortuna (Latin for "fortune") can also mean:

Places

United States

• Fortuna, Arizona, a ghost town
• Fortuna, California, a city
• Fargo, California, a former settlement also called Fortuna
• Fortuna, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Fortuna, North Dakota, a small city
• Fortuna, U.S. Virgin Islands, a settlement

Elsewhere

• Fortuna, San Luis, a village and municipality in Argentina
• Fortuna, Maranhão, a municipality in Brazil
• Fortuna, Murcia, a town in Spain
• Fortuna Forest Reserve, Panama
• Fortuna Bay, South Georgia Island
• Fortuna Glacier, South Georgia Island
• 19 Fortuna, an asteroid

Entertainment

• Fortuna (film), an Israeli film directed by Menahem Golan
• Fortuna (telenovela), a 2013 Mexican telenovela
• Bib Fortuna, a Star Wars character
• Fortuna, a name for "Bagatelle", a game developed from billiard
• Fortuna, a planet in the Star Fox series; not to be confused with Fichina (mistranslated as Fortuna in Star Fox 64)

Ships

• Fortuna (steamboat), a vessel that operated on Lake Washington in the early 20th century
• Costa Fortuna, a cruise ship built in 2003
• Fortuna, various yachts used by Spanish King Juan Carlos I

Sports

• VfB Fortuna Chemnitz, a German football club
• Fortuna Düsseldorf, a German football club
• SC Fortuna Köln, a German football club
• SV Fortuna Magdeburg, a German football club
• Fortuna Hjørring, a Danish women's football team
• Fortuna Sittard, a Dutch football club
• Fortuna Vlaardingen, a Dutch football club
• FK Fortuna Skopje, a Macedonian football club
• Fortuna Ålesund, a Norwegian women's football club
• ACS Fortuna Covaci, a Romanian football club
  • Stadionul Fortuna (Fortuna Stadium), Covaci, Romania
• FC Fortuna Mytishchi, a former Russian football team (2003-2009)
• CD Fortuna, a Spanish football team from Leganés
• FC Fortuna Sharhorod, a Ukrainian football club
• Fortuna Liga or Slovak Super Liga, the top football league in Slovakia

People

• Fortuna (surname)
• Fortuna (Brazilian singer), female singer and composer from Brazil
• Diego Mazquiarán (1895-1940), Spanish matador known as Fortuna

Other uses

• Fortuna (SEPTA station), a railway station in Hatfield, Pennsylvania
• Fortuna Air Force Station, North Dakota, an abandoned Air Force Long Range radar site
• Fortuna (cigarette), a cigarette brand owned by Altadis
• Fortuna (PRNG), an algorithm for cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generation
• Fortuna, a genetically modified potato developed by BASF Plant Science

See also

• La Fortuna (disambiguation)
• "O Fortuna", a 13th-century medieval Latin Goliardic poem; set to music by Carl Orff
• O Fortuna (album), a 2009 studio album by Welsh classical singer Rhydian
• Fortune (disambiguation)