title: Forty Thieves
text: # Forty Thieves
  
  Forty Thieves or 40 Thieves may refer to:
  
  ## Groups of people
  
  * the Forty Thieves (New York gang), an 18th-century New York street gang
  * The Forty Thieves (New York City Common Council 1852–1853)
  * the Forty Elephants, an all-female London criminal gang
  * The nickname for the participants in the 1921 Cairo Conference
  
  ## Games
  
  * Forty Thieves (card game)
  
  ## Ships
  
  * The Vengeur-class ships of the line, whose notoriously poor construction caused them to become known as the "forty thieves."
  
  ## Theatre, film and television
  
  * The Forty Thieves, an 1878 British pantomime version of the Ali Baba story.
  * The Forty Thieves, an 1869 burlesque performed on Broadway
  * Forty Thieves, a 1944 Hopalong Cassidy Western film.
  
  ## Music
  
  * "40 Thieves" (A Loss for Words song) redirect
  