Porter
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- Porter - a person who carries objects
- Porter - a style of beer
- Porter - one of the minor orders of the Roman Catholic ministry / a doorkeeper or gatekeeper
- Porter- mexican indie band
- Porter - the railroad occupation. The Pullman Palace Car Company in the United States hired black men as Pullman Porters
- Porter - member of staff in many of the colleges of the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Durham
- H. K. Porter, Inc - a manufacturer of small railroad locomotives.
- Porter College - a residential college at the University of California, Santa Cruz
- Hyundai Porter - a RV in pickup truck built by Hyundai Motor Company.
- Places named Porter in the United States of America:
- (Note also: Porter Heights, Texas; Malone-Porter, Washington; Porter Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- People whose surname is or was Porter include
- Charles Ethan Porter, African American still life painter
- Cole Porter, Composer
- Eleanor H. Porter, author of children's literature
- Eliot Porter, Historian of arts
- Katherine Anne Porter, Writer
- Henry Kirke Porter, Industrialist
- Michael Porter, Economist
- Rodney Robert Porter Scientist awarded Nobel prize
- Roy Porter, Historian of medicine
- Russell W. Porter, Co-founder of the Amateur Telescope Makers movement
- Sylvia Field Porter, financial columnist
- William Sydney Porter, Writer (pen name: O. Henry)