- 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 Locomotive s.
- 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 in the United States Of America :
- --- Porter, Indiana
- --- Porter, Maine
- --- Porter, Minnesota
- --- Porter, New York
- --- Porter, Oklahoma
- --- Porter, Texas
- --- Porter, Wisconsin
- --- Porter County, Indiana
- --- Porter Township, Michigan (three places)
- --- Porter Township, Pennsylvania (seven places)
::(Note also: Porter Heights, Texas ; Malone-Porter, Washington ; Porter Square , in Cambridge, Massachusetts .
- People whose surname is or was 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 )
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