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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 Fortescue is a community and census-designated place (CDP) in Downe Township, Cumberland County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The community is located on the state's southern coast, on the Delaware Bay, surrounded on three sides by marshla ...
, United States * County of Fortescue, Queensland, Australia *
Fortescue Bay Fortescue Bay or Baje Dolomien is a bay in southeast Tasmania, Australia. It is located east of Port Arthur, Tasmania, and makes up part of Tasman National Park. Within the bay are two smaller nested bays, Canoe Bay and Bivouac Bay. History T ...
, Tasmania, Australia *
Fortescue River The Fortescue River is an ephemeral river in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It is the third longest river in the state. Course The river rises near Deadman Hill in the Ophthalmia Range about 30 km south of Newman. The river flo ...
, Western Australia


Titles

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Earl Fortescue Earl Fortescue is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain that was created in 1789 for Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Baron Fortescue (1753–1841), a member of parliament for Beaumaris and Lord-Lieutenant of Devon. History The Earls Fortescue desce ...
, a title in the Peerage of Great Britain *
Fortescue baronets There have been three baronetcies created for persons with the surname Fortescue, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and two in the Baronetage of England. Two of the creations are extinct while the other is dormant. The Fortescue Baronetcy, of ...
* Baron Fortescue of Credan, an extinct title in the Peerage of Ireland


Other uses

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Fortescue Metals Group Fortescue Metals Group Limited (often referred to as Fortescue Metals Group, FMG, or simply Fortescue) is an Australian iron ore company. As of 2017, Fortescue is the fourth-largest iron ore producer in the world. The company has holdings of m ...
, an Australian iron ore company * 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 The Eastern fortescue (''Centropogon australis''), also known as the fortesque, Southern fortescue, fortie or Southern bullrout, is a species of ray-finned fish, a waspfish belonging to the subfamily Tetraroginae of the family Scorpaenidae, the s ...
'' or Fortescue, a venomous fish common to Eastern Australia {{disambiguation, geo