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