Fortescue

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Fortescue may refer to:

People

  • Fortescue (surname), a British surname Includes list of name-holders
  • Fortescue Ash (1882–1956), Anglican bishop in Australia
  • Fortescue Graham (1794–1880), British Royal Marines general

Places

  • Fortescue, Missouri, United States, a village
  • Fortescue, New Jersey, United States
  • County of Fortescue, Queensland, Australia
  • Fortescue Bay, Tasmania, Australia
  • Fortescue River, Western Australia

Titles

  • Earl Fortescue, a title in the Peerage of Great Britain
  • Fortescue baronets
  • Baron Fortescue of Credan, an extinct title in the Peerage of Ireland

Other uses

  • Fortescue (company), an Australian mining and energy company, previously known as Fortescue Metals Group
  • Fortescue National Football League, an Australian rules football league
  • Fortescue grunter (Leiopotherapon aheneus), a freshwater fish
  • Fortescue transformation for symmetrical components
  • Fortescue, protagonist of The House of Fortescue, a 1916 silent film
  • Centropogon australis or Fortescue, a venomous fish common to Eastern Australia
  • Fortescue (novel), an 1846 novel by Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles
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