title: Fortescue
text: # Fortescue
  
  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 Metals Group, 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 or Fortescue, a venomous fish common to Eastern Australia
  * Fortescue (novel), an 1846 novel by Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles
  