Bonaventure (disambiguation) explained

Saint Bonaventure (John of Fidanza, 1221–1274) was an Italian philosopher and theologian.

Bonaventure, a French name (from Latin Bonaventura, meaning "good fortune") may also refer to:

People

Given name

• Bonaventure of Siena (fl. 1264–1266), Italian notary and translator
• Bonaventure de Bar (1700–1729), French painter
• Bonaventure Baron (1610–1696), Irish Franciscan theologian, philosopher and writer of Latin prose and verse
• Bonaventure Broderick (1868–1943), the Coadjutor Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana
• Bonaventure Elzevir (1583–1652), Dutch publisher and printer
• Bonaventure Giffard (1642–1734), English Roman Catholic bishop
• Bonaventure Hepburn (1573–1620/1), Scottish linguist and biblical scholar
• Bonaventure Kalou (born 1978), Ivorian footballer
• Bonaventure Maruti (born 1976), a Kenyan football striker
• Bonaventure Panet (1765–1846), a businessman and politician in Lower Canada
• Bonaventure Patrick Paul (1929–2007), Pakistani bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hyderabad
• Bonaventure des Périers (c. 1501–1544), French author

Surname

• Simon-Pierre Denys de Bonaventure (1659–1711), French officer in the colonial navy of New France
• Ysaline Bonaventure, Belgian tennis player

Places

Canada

• Bonaventure Regional County Municipality, Quebec
  • City of Bonaventure, Quebec, in the Bonaventure RCM
    • Bonaventure Airport, serving City of Bonaventure
  • Bonaventure River
• Bonaventure Island in the Gaspésie region on the Gulf of St. Lawrence
• Bonaventure (federal electoral district), a former federal electoral district
• Bonaventure (provincial electoral district), a Quebec provincial electoral district
• Place Bonaventure in Montreal which gave its name to
  • Bonaventure (Montreal Metro) station
  • Bonaventure Station, railway station in downtown Montreal, Quebec
• Autoroute Bonaventure (Quebec Autoroute 10), also called the Bonaventure Expressway
• Old and New Bonaventure, Newfoundland and Labrador, small communities

United States

• St. Bonaventure, New York, a census-designated place and community in Allegany
• Westin Bonaventure Hotel, the largest hotel in Los Angeles, California
• Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia
• Bonaventure Plantation in Savannah, Georgia

Entertainment

• Bonaventure, a play that was made into the 1951 film Thunder on the Hill
• St. Bonaventure Hospital, setting of The Good Doctor (U.S. TV series)

Schools

• Saint Bonaventure's College in Newfoundland, Canada
• St. Bonaventure University, located in Allegany, New York, United States
• St Bonaventure's Catholic School, in Forest Gate, London Borough of Newham, United Kingdom
• St Bonaventure's High School, a school located in Hyderabad, Sindh province, Pakistan
• St. Bonaventure High School, a private, Catholic, co-educational secondary school in Ventura, California, United States
• St. Bonaventure Elementary School, a Catholic elementary school in Toronto, Ontario

Ships

• Canadian aircraft carrier,
• nine warships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Bonaventure

Other

• Bonaventure station (disambiguation), stations of the name

See also

• Pseudo-Bonaventure, a name given to various anonymous medieval writers whose writings were previously attributed to Saint Bonaventure
• Buenaventura (disambiguation)
• Bonaventura (disambiguation)