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Fortis (Swiss watchmaker) FORTIS Watches AG (formerly FORTIS Uhren AG), located in Grenchen is a luxury Swiss watches manufacturer that was founded by Walter Vogt in 1912. The brand is particularly known for robust, highly precise, automatic tool watches. The owner and CEO ...

, a Swiss watch company *

Fortis Films Fortis Films is an American film and television production company founded in 1995 by actress and producer Sandra Bullock. It is known for producing the films '' Hope Floats'' (1998), '' Miss Congeniality'' (2000), ''Two Weeks Notice'' (2002), '' ...

, an American film and television production company founded by actress and producer Sandra Bullock *

Fortis Healthcare Fortis Healthcare Limited is an Indian for-profit private hospital network headquartered in Gurgaon. The Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FMRI) in Gurgaon serves as the headquarters for Fortis Healthcare. In addition to its Gurgaon faci ...

, a chain of hospitals in India *

Fortis Inc. Fortis Inc. is a Canadian electric utility holding company, based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. It operates in Canada, the United States, Central America and the Caribbean. In 2015, it earned . Fortis was formed in 1987, when shareho ...

, a Canadian utility holding company *

Fortis Group Fortis N.V./S.A., was a Benelux-centered global financial services group active in insurance, banking and investment management, initially formed in 1990 by a three-way Belgian-Dutch merger and headquartered in Brussels. It grew rapidly through m ...

, a defunct banking, financial services, and insurance company, based in the Benelux or their successors: **

Ageas Ageas is a Belgian multinational insurance company co-headquartered in Brussels. Ageas is Belgium's largest insurer and operates in 13 countries worldwide. The company was renamed from Fortis Holding in April 2010 and consists of those insuranc ...

, formed from the insurance operations of Fortis **

ASR Nederland ASR Nederland is a major Dutch insurance group based in Utrecht. The company was created in its current form in 2008 when the insurance business was split out of Fortis, after it was acquired by the Dutch government during the 2008 financial cri ...

, formed from the Dutch insurance operations of Fortis **

BNP Paribas Fortis BNP Paribas Fortis is an international bank based in Belgium and a subsidiary of French banking group BNP Paribas. The bank was created in May 2009 after BNP Paribas acquired 75% of the Belgian Fortis Bank from the Federal Participation and Inve ...

, formed from the Belgian banking operations of Fortis, now owned by BNP Paribas ** ABN AMRO, formed from the Netherlands banking operations of Fortis, now owned by the Dutch government **

BGL BNP Paribas BGL BNP Paribas (formerly Banque Générale du Luxembourg or BGL) is a Luxembourgish bank founded on 29 September 1919. Since May 2009, the bank has been a subsidiary of the BNP Paribas group. It is the fifth-largest bank in the Grand Duchy of Luxem ...

, formed from the Luxembourg banking operations of Fortis, now owned by BNP Paribas

People

Alberto Fortis Alberto Fortis (9 or 11 November 1741 – 21 October 1803) was an Italian writer, naturalist and cartographer, citizen of Republic of Venice. Life His real name was Giovanni Battista Fortis (his religious name was ''Alberto'') and he was born i ...

(1741–1803), Venetian writer, naturalist and cartographer *

Alberto Fortis (musician) Alberto Fortis (born June 3, 1955 in Domodossola) is an Italian musician, songwriter, and poet. Fortis released his first album ''Alberto Fortis'' in 1979. He is the composer of both music and lyrics and has directed the video clips for three of ...

(born 1955), Italian singer and songwriter *

Alessandro Fortis Alessandro Fortis (; 16 September 1842 – 4 December 1909) was an Italian politician who served as the 18th prime minister of Italy from 1905 to 1906. Early career Fortis was born in Forlì, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, and became a lawyer. A re ...

(1842–1909), Italian politician and prime minister * Jean-Baptiste-Boniface de Fortis (1746–1836), French politician *

Louis Fortis Louis G. Fortis (born April 5, 1947) is an American economist, educator, and newspaper publisher-editor who served three terms as a Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Milwaukee County. Background Fortis was born in Chicago ...

(born 1947), American politician *

Luigi Fortis Luigi Fortis (February 26, 1748 – January 27, 1829) was an Italian Jesuit elected the twentieth Superior-General of the Society of Jesus. Early life and formation Fortis joined the Jesuits in 1762 after studying at the San Sebastian High Sc ...

(1748–1829), Italian Jesuit *

Rami Fortis Rami Fortis (; born July 7, 1954), or simply Fortis, is an Israeli rock singer. Born in Tel Aviv, Fortis became known as a pioneer of Israeli punk rock. His debut album ''Plonter'', released in 1978, was not a commercial success at the time, tho ...

(born 1954), Israeli rock musician

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Fortis (aerojeep) Fortis is a propelled ground vehicle ("aerojeep") designed by Zhukovsky Aerodynamics Research Institute and by the group of students from MAMI Moscow State Technical University. It can ride both on ground and water while maintaining good stability. ...

, a propelled ground vehicle *

Fortis (linguistics) In linguistics, ''fortis'' ( ; Latin for 'strong') and ''lenis'' (, ; Latin for 'weak'), sometimes identified with 'tense' and 'lax', are pronunciations of consonants with relatively greater and lesser energy, respectively. English has fortis ...

, consonants produced with greater energy than ''lenis'' ones * Mitsubishi Galant Fortis, a compact car also known as the

Mitsubishi Lancer The Mitsubishi Lancer is an automobile that was produced by the Japanese manufacturer Mitsubishi Motors from 1973 until 2024. The Lancer has been marketed as the Colt Lancer, Dodge Colt, Plymouth Colt, Chrysler Valiant Lancer, Chrysler Lancer, ...

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