Fortescue
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Fortescue may refer to:
People
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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