Fortuna Fortuna ( la, Fortūna, equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche) is the goddess of fortune and the personification of luck in Roman religion who, largely thanks to the Late Antique author Boethius, remained popular through the Middle Ages until at ...

is the Roman goddess of luck. Fortuna (Latin for "fortune") can also mean:

Places

South Georgia Island

Fortuna Bay Fortuna Bay () is a bay long and wide. Its entrance is defined by Cape Best on the west and Robertson Point to the east, near Atherton Peak on the north coast of South Georgia. It was named after the ''Fortuna'', one of the ships of the Norwegi ...

, South Georgia Island *

Fortuna Glacier Fortuna Glacier is a tidewater glacier at the mouth of Cumberland Bay on the island of South Georgia Island, South Georgia. It flows in a northeast direction to its terminus just west of Cape Best, with an eastern distributary almost reaching the ...

, South Georgia Island

United States

Fortuna, Arizona Fortuna is a ghost town in Yuma County in the U.S. state of Arizona. It was located on the Southern Pacific's Sunset Route. Fortuna was a mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, u ...

, a ghost town *

Fortuna, California Fortuna (Spanish for "Fortune"; Wiyot: ''Vutsuwitk Da'l'') is a city on the northeast shore of the Eel River, approximately from where it enters the Pacific Ocean, and is on U.S. Route 101 in west-central Humboldt County, California, United St ...

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

Elsewhere

* Fortuna, San Luis, a village and municipality in Argentina * Fortuna, Maranhão, a municipality in Brazil *

Fortuna, Murcia Fortuna is a town and a municipality in the autonomous Region of Murcia in southeastern Spain. It is located in the northeast of the region and in '' Comarca Oriental''. The municipality shares borders with Abanilla at its east, Jumilla and Abar� ...

, a town in Spain *

Fortuna Forest Reserve Fortuna Forest Reserve is a 206.54 km² forest reserve in the mountains of Chiriquí Province, Panama. Geography Fortuna Forest Reserve is located in the eastern foothills of the Cordillera de Talamanca near the transition to the . The reserve co ...

, Panama *

19 Fortuna Fortuna (minor planet designation: 19 Fortuna) is one of the largest main-belt asteroids. It has a composition similar to 1 Ceres: a darkly colored surface that is heavily space-weathered with the composition of primitive organic compounds, incl ...

, an asteroid

People

* Fortuna (surname) * Diego Mazquiarán (1895-1940), Spanish matador known as Fortuna *

Fortuna (Brazilian singer) Fortuna is a Brazilian female singer-songwriter of Sephardic Jewish background, and a researcher of the Sephardic tradition since 1992. Fortuna, whose stage name is Fortunee Safdié Joyce (born c. 1958), is a Brazilian Sephardi Jewish singer ...

, female singer and composer from Brazil

Arts and entertainment

* ''Fortuna'' (album), a 2019 album by Italian singer Emma * "Fortuna", a 2022 single by Chinese singer

Lexie Liu Lexie Liu, also known as Liu Boxin (; born December 21, 1998), is a Chinese singer, rapper and songwriter. In 2015, she participated in ''K-pop Star 5'', a South Korean reality TV competition series where her group came in fourth place. In July ...

* ''Fortuna'' (film), an Israeli film directed by Menahem Golan * ''Fortuna'' (telenovela), a 2013 Mexican telenovela *

Bib Fortuna Bib Fortuna is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise. The Twi'lek majordomo and chief aide of the crime lord Jabba the Hutt, Bib is Jabba's closest associate, succeeding him as daimyo after his death before ultimately being k ...

, a ''Star Wars'' character * Fortuna, a name for ''

Bagatelle Bagatelle (from the Château de Bagatelle) is a billiards-derived indoor table game, the object of which is to get a number of balls (set at nine in the 19th century) past wooden pins (which act as obstacles) into holes that are guarded by wooden ...

'', a game developed from billiard * Fortuna, a town on Venus in the online game ''

Warframe ''Warframe'' is a free-to-play action role-playing third-person shooter multiplayer online game developed and published by Digital Extremes. First released for Windows personal computers in March 2013, it was later ported to PlayStation 4 in No ...

Ships

* ''

Costa Fortuna ''Costa Fortuna'' is a cruise ship for Costa Crociere built in 2003 on the same platform as Carnival Cruise Lines' . She was inspired by the Italian steamships of the past. Models of these ships are on display in the ship's public areas. In the ...

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

Juan Carlos I Juan Carlos I (;, * ca, Joan Carles I, * gl, Xoán Carlos I, Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, born 5 January 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain from 22 Novem ...

Sports

ACS Fortuna Covaci Fortuna Covaci was a Romanian professional football club from Covaci, Timiș County, Romania. The club last played in the Liga VI. History The club was named Fortuna after Fortuna Düsseldorf, the famous German club, because the owner is a huge ...

, a Romanian football club **

Stadionul Fortuna Fortuna Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Covaci, Timiș County Timiș () is a county ('' județ'') of western Romania on the border with Hungary and Serbia, in the historical region of Banat, with the county seat at Timișoara. It is th ...

(Fortuna Stadium), Covaci, Romania *

CD Fortuna Club Deportivo Fortuna are a Spanish football team from Leganés, in the Madrid outskirts. Founded on 1968, they currently play in '' Preferente''. They play shirts with green stripes, and red. Their home stadium is the ''Estadio de La Fortuna'', ...

, a Spanish football team from Leganés *

FC Fortuna Mytishchi FC Fortuna Mytishchi (russian: «Фортуна» (Мытищи)) was a Russian football team from Mytishchi. It played professionally in the Russian Second Division The Russian Second League (russian: Первенство России II ди ...

, a former Russian football team (2003-2009) * FC Fortuna Sharhorod, a Ukrainian football club * FK Fortuna Skopje, a Macedonian football club *

Fortuna Ålesund AaFK Fortuna (formerly known as FK Fortuna Ålesund) is a Norwegian women's football club from Ålesund that currently competes in 2. divisjon, the third tier of Norwegian football. It is named after Fortuna of Roman mythology. History The clu ...

, a Norwegian women's football club *

Fortuna Arena Fortuna Arena (formerly known as Sinobo Stadium, Eden Aréna and Synot Tip Arena) is a football stadium, in Prague- Vršovice, Czech Republic. The stadium has a capacity of 19,370 people and it is the biggest and the most modern football stadiu ...

, a stadium in Prague, Czech Republic *

Fortuna Düsseldorf Düsseldorfer Turn- und Sportverein Fortuna 1895 e.V., commonly known as Fortuna Düsseldorf (), is a German football club in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, which competes in the 2. Bundesliga. Founded in 1895, Fortuna entered the league ...

, a German football club *

Fortuna Hjørring Fortuna Hjørring is a women's association football team from Hjørring, Denmark. The club was formed in 1966 and play in green and white. Their biggest achievement in European football was reaching the 2002–03 UEFA Women's Cup final where they ...

, a Danish women's football team * Fortuna liga (disambiguation), several sports competitions *

Fortuna Sittard Fortuna Sittard (; li, Fortuna Zitterd ) is a football club in Sittard, Netherlands. The club currently plays its football in the 12,500 capacity Fortuna Sittard Stadion and features in the Eredivisie. The club was established through a merger ...

, a Dutch football club *

Fortuna Vlaardingen Fortuna Vlaardingen was a Dutch football club which was founded in 1904 in Vlaardingen. The club played its matches in the Floreslaan stadium. History The club entered the Eerste Divisie in 1956. Fortuna never made it towards the Eredivisie and co ...

, a Dutch football club *

SC Fortuna Köln SC Fortuna Köln is a German association football club based in the city of Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. History The club was formed as on 21 February 1948 through the merger of three local sides: Victoria Köln 1911 (one of two clubs to ...

, a German football club *

SV Fortuna Magdeburg SV Fortuna Magdeburg is a German association football club from the city of Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt. History The club was founded 1 August 1911 as Magdeburger Fußball-Verein Fortuna 1911. An earlier unrelated side known as Fussball Club ...

, a German football club * VfB Fortuna Chemnitz, a German football club

Other uses

Fortuna Air Force Station Fortuna Air Force Station is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located west of Fortuna, North Dakota. It was closed in 1979 as a radar station, remaining as a Long-Range Radar (LRR) facility until 1984. ...

, North Dakota, an abandoned Air Force Long Range radar site *

Fortuna station (SEPTA) Fortuna station is a station along the SEPTA Lansdale/Doylestown Line. It is located near the corner of North Broad Street and Cowpath Road ( Route 463) in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, United States. Cowpath Road was originally an actual cow path. In ...

, a railway station in Hatfield, Pennsylvania *

Fortuna railway station (Mexico City) Fortuna is a commuter railway station serving the Ferrocarril Suburbano, a suburban rail that connects the State of Mexico with Mexico City. The station is located in the municipality of Azcapotzalco in the northern part of Mexico City. General i ...

, operated by Ferrocarriles Suburbanos *

Fortuna (cigarette) Fortuna is a Hispanic brand of cigarettes, currently owned and manufactured by the Franco-Spanish company Altadis, a subsidiary of Imperial Tobacco. Fortuna is Spanish for fortune or luck. History Fortuna was first introduced in 1974 in Franc ...

, a cigarette brand owned by Altadis *

Fortuna (PRNG) Fortuna is a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) devised by Bruce Schneier and Niels Ferguson and published in 2003. It is named after Fortuna, the Roman goddess of chance. FreeBSD uses Fortuna for /dev/random and /dev/ ...

, an algorithm for cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generation * Fortuna, a genetically modified potato developed by

BASF Plant Science BASF Plant Science is a subsidiary of BASF in which all plant biotechnology activities are consolidated. The company was founded in 1998 and employs approximately 700 people at 6 different locations worldwide. The headquarters of BASF Plant Scienc ...