Ventura
Encyclopedia
Places
- Ventura, CaliforniaVentura, CaliforniaVentura is the county seat of Ventura County, California, United States, incorporated in 1866. The population was 106,433 at the 2010 census, up from 100,916 at the 2000 census. Ventura is accessible via U.S...
, US - Ventura, IowaVentura, IowaVentura is a city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States. The population was 670 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Mason City Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Ventura is located at ....
, US - Ventura County, CaliforniaVentura County, CaliforniaVentura County is a county in the southern part of the U.S. state of California. It is located on California's Pacific coast. It is often referred to as the Gold Coast, and has a reputation of being one of the safest populated places and one of the most affluent places in the country...
, US - Las Venturas, San Andreas, a fictional city in Grand Theft Auto series of video games
- Ventura BoulevardVentura BoulevardVentura Boulevard is one of the primary east–west thouroughfares in the San Fernando Valley, USA; as it was originally a part of the El Camino Real , Ventura Boulevard is one of the oldest routes in the San Fernando Valley. It was also U.S...
, boulevard located in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California, US
People
- Ventura RodríguezVentura RodríguezVentura Rodríguez Tizón was a Spanish architect and artist. Born at Ciempozuelos, Rodríguez was the son of a bricklayer. In 1727, he collaborated with his father in the work at the Royal Palace of Aranjuez.-Major works:...
(1717-1785), Spanish architect and artist - Charlie VenturaCharlie VenturaCharlie Ventura was a tenor saxophonist and bandleader.Ventura was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He had his first successes working with Gene Krupa. In 1945 he won the Down Beat readers' poll in the tenor saxophone division...
(1916-1992), American band leader - Felipe Ventura dos Santos (born 1984), Brazilian footballer (goalkeeper)
- Giampiero VenturaGiampiero VenturaGiampiero Ventura is an Italian football manager and the current manager of Torino.-Career:After a short playing career started with Sampdoria, Ventura was forced to retire from active football at the age of 25 because of a serious back injury...
, Italian football coach - Jean-Baptiste VenturaJean-Baptiste VenturaJean-Baptiste Ventura was a soldier, mercenary and adventurer who ended up in the Sikh Empire in Punjab....
(ca. 1792-?), Italian-born soldier, mercenary and adventurer - Jesse VenturaJesse VenturaJames George Janos , better known as Jesse Ventura, is an American politician, the 38th Governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003, Navy UDT veteran, former SEAL reservist, actor, and former radio and television talk show host...
(born 1951), American wrestler, actor and politician - Johnny VenturaJohnny VenturaJuan e Dios Ventura Soriano, better known as Johnny Ventura is a singer and band leader of merengue.- Early History :...
(born 1940), Dominican composer and singer - Lino VenturaLino VenturaLino Ventura , was an Italian actor who starred in French movies.-Biography:Born as Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura in Parma, Italy to Giovanni Ventura and Luisa Borrini, "Lino" dropped out of school at the age of eight and later took on a variety of jobs...
(1919-1987), Italian-French movie actor - Robin VenturaRobin VenturaRobin Mark Ventura is the current manager of the Chicago White Sox. He is a former professional baseball player, a third baseman who played for four major league teams, most notably for the Chicago White Sox...
(born 1967), American baseball player - Sheherazade Ventura (born 1974), English socialite and environmentalist
- Simona VenturaSimona VenturaSimona Ventura is an Italian television presenter.-The Beginnings:Ventura started in TV on "Domani Sposi" with Giancarlo Magalli on Rai Uno....
(born 1965), Italian TV hostess - Viviane VenturaViviane VenturaViviane Ventura is a British actress. She was born on December 5, 1947, in London, but spent her childhood in Bogotá, Colombia. In 1958, she returned to the UK, where she started her film career. Ventura has made films for 20th Century Fox including High Wind in Jamaica and Lord Jim...
(born 1947), English actress and socialite - Yolanda VenturaYolanda VenturaYolanda Ventura is a Spanish actress and singer. She is best known for roles in Mexican telenovelas and is a former member of the Spanish pop band Parchís. She is the daughter of Spanish musician Rudi Ventura and wife of Mexican actor Alejandro Aragón...
(born 1968), Spanish-born singer and actress - Zuenir VenturaZuenir VenturaZuenir Carlos Ventura is a Brazilian journalist and writer. He is a columnist for the newspaper O Globo, and for Época magazine. He won the Jabuti Prize in 1995 in the "reportage" category for the book Cidade Partida. In 2009, his book 1968 - O que Fizemos de Nós won the third place at the same...
(born 1931), Brazilian journalist and writer - Ace VenturaAce VenturaAce Ventura is a fictional character, created by screenwriters Jack Bernstein, Tom Shadyac and Steve Oedekerk. Ace was played by Jim Carrey in the films He was voiced by Michael Daingerfield in the animated television series.-Biography:Ace is a...
, a fictional character in several films - Cassandra Ventura (born 1986), American pop and R&B singer
Transportation
- Ventura Bus LinesVentura Bus LinesVentura is a privately owned bus and coach operator in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Today the largest private Melbourne bus company, and operates a number of bus routes under contract from the Victorian State Government. The company purchased National Bus Company for A$45 million, and the Mount...
, Australian bus and coach company - Ventura FreewayVentura FreewayThe Ventura Freeway is a freeway in southern California running from Ventura to Pasadena. It is the principal east-west route through Ventura County and in the southern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County. From Ventura to its intersection with the Hollywood Freeway in the southeastern San...
, connecting downtown Los Angeles with Ventura County, CA - Lockheed VenturaLockheed VenturaThe Lockheed Ventura was a bomber and patrol aircraft of World War II, used by United States and British Commonwealth forces in several guises...
, World War II aircraft - Pontiac VenturaPontiac VenturaThe Pontiac Ventura was an automobile produced by the Pontiac Motor Division of General Motors. The word "ventura" is a derivitave of the word "bonaventure" which is Italian for "good fortune". It also shares its name with the locations of Ventura, California and Ventura, Iowa...
, automobile produced by General Motors - MS VenturaMS VenturaMS Ventura is a cruise ship of the P&O Cruises fleet. The ship was built by Fincantieri at their shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy. At 116,017 tonnes, Ventura is the largest of seven ships currently in service with P&O Cruises. She is also the sister ship of MS Azura...
, a cruise ship
Other uses
- "Ventura HighwayVentura Highway"Ventura Highway" is a popular 1972 song by the rock 'n' roll band America from its album, Homecoming.-Background:The vocalist and writer of the song Dewey Bunnell has said that the lyric "alligator lizards in the air" in the song is a reference to the shapes of clouds in the sky...
", a 1972 song by the band America - Corel VenturaCorel VenturaVentura Publisher was the first popular desktop publishing package for IBM PC compatible computers running the GEM extension to the DOS operating system. The software was originally developed by Ventura Software, a small software company founded by John Meyer, Don Heiskel and Lee Jay Lorenzen, all...
, software package from Corel Corporation - Paxman Ventura, diesel engine
- Ventura (horse)Ventura (horse)Ventura is a Thoroughbred racehorse who competed in the United Kingdom and the United States. She was bred and raced by Khalid Abdulla's Juddmonte Farms.-Racing career:...
, American race horce - La-VenturaLa-VenturaLa-Ventura is a Gothic metal band based in the Netherlands. It was founded by ex-Orphanage drummer Erwin Polderman and vocalist Carla van Huizen in 2005...
, Netherlands-based Gothic/melodic metal band