Fortuna (disambiguation)

Fortuna (disambiguation)

Fortuna ("Latin and Spanish: "fortune") can mean:

*Fortuna, the Roman goddess of luck (from the Greek Tyche)

Geographical
*19 Fortuna, an asteroid
*Fortuna, California, a town located on the north coast of California
*Fortuna, North Dakota, a town located in the northwest of North Dakota, near the Canadian border.
*Fortuna Air Force Station, an abandoned Air Force Long Range radar site from the Cold War.
*Fortuna (SEPTA station)
*Fortuna, Spain, a town located in the province of Murcia in Spain

People
* Fortuna (Brazilian singer), a female singer and composer from Brazil of Jewish origin
* Diego Fortuna, an Italian discus thrower
* Wojciech Fortuna, a Polish ski jumper and Olympic gold medallist

Sports
* Fortuna Düsseldorf
* Fortuna Köln
* Fortuna Sittard

Other
*Fortuna (philosophy), Philosophy of the Fellowship of Fortuna Movement
*Fortuna (literature), tradition through history of a literary topos or theme.
*Fortuna (PRNG), an algorithm for cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generation, design by Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier
*Fortuna, a fictional planet from the "Star Fox" series of video games
* Fortuna (cigarette), a cigarette brand owned by Altadis
* "O Fortuna", widely recognizable opening movement of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana"
* , an original sprite-based webcomic set in the world of "Final Fantasy VI".
* A name for bagatelle, a game developed from billiard


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