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 - 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 and Oxford
- H. K. Porter, Inc - a manufacturer of small railroad locomotives.
- Porter College - a residential college at the University of California, Santa Cruz
- Places named Porter in the United States of America:
- (Note also: Porter Heights, Texas and Malone-Porter, Washington.)
- 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
- Roy Porter, Historian of medicine
- Russell W. Porter, Co-founder of the Amateur Telescope Makers movement