Forty Thieves or 40 Thieves most often refers to the characters in the story of
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
It may also refer to:
Groups of people
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Forty Thieves (New York gang)
The Forty Thieves — likely named after Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves — were formed in 1825 and alleged to be the first known and oldest New York City criminal street gang. The Thieves consisted primarily of Irish immigrants and Irish A ...
, an 18th-century New York street gang
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Forty Thieves (New York City Common Council 1852–1853)
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Forty Elephants, also known as the Forty Thieves, an all-female London criminal gang specializing in shoplifting
* The nickname for the participants in the
1921 Cairo Conference
Theatre, film and television
* ''
The Forty Thieves'', an 1878 British pantomime version of the Ali Baba story
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''The Forty Thieves'' (1869 play), a burlesque performed on Broadway
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''Forty Thieves'' (film), a 1944 Hopalong Cassidy Western
Other uses
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Forty Thieves (card game), another name for the solitaire game Napoleon at St Helena
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''Vengeur''-class ships of the line, whose notoriously poor construction caused them to become known as the "forty thieves."
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"40 Thieves" (A Loss for Words song)
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