Fort Wright is a home rule-class city[4] in Kenton County, Kentucky, in the United States.

Interstate 75/71 crosses the center of the city, with access from Exit 189 (Kyles Lane).

[5] The area that is now Fort Wright was the site of one of the Civil War fortifications built for the Defense of Cincinnati.

The city, incorporated in 1941, was named for Major General Horatio Gouverneur Wright, a Union Army engineer.

[6] It annexed the neighboring communities of Lookout Heights in 1937, South Hills in 1949 and Lakeview in 1960.