Forty Thieves
# 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
