Ture Explained

Ture may refer to:

Names

• Ture (Zande character), a trickster character from North Central Africa

Personal name

• Ture Hedman (1895–1950), Swedish gymnast
• Ture Malmgren (1851–1922), Swedish journalist and politician
• Ture Nerman (1886–1969), Swedish author and politician
• Ture Persson (1892–1956), Swedish sprinter
• Ture Rangström (1884–1947), Swedish composer
• Ture Rosvall (1891–1977), Swedish rower
• Ture Zahab (born David HaLevi Segal, c. 1586–1667), Polish rabbinical authority

Family name

• Kwame Ture (1941–1998), American civil rights organizer
• Muhammad Ture (1443–1538), ruler of the Askia Dynasty of the Songhai Empire
• Samori Ture (c. 1830–1900), founder of the Wassoulou Empire
• Seku Ture (1922–1984), president of Guinea

Fictional characters

• Ture Sventon, a fictional detective

Places

• Ture River or Turcu, a tributary of the Jolotca in Romania
• Ture, Drumlane a townland in County Cavan
• Türe, the Hungarian name for Turea village, Gârbău Commune, Cluj County, Romania
• Tureholm Castle, a listed building in Trosa Municipality, Sweden
• Tureholm, Sweden, a locality in Ekerö Municipality

Ture Malmgren

Places named for Ture Malmgren, all located in Uddevalla, Sweden:

• Tureborg Castle, a mock castle built by Malmgren atop Fjällsätern
• Tureborg, a district of Uddevalla
• Ture Valleys, a nature reserve
• Tureholm, an artificial island
• Tomb of Ture Malmgren

See also

• Turing