Porter
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Porter may refer to:
People
- Porter (name), an English surname or give or no one
Occupations
- Porter (carrier), person who carries objects
- Porter (college), member of staff in many of the colleges of the Universities of Cambridge, Lancaster, Oxford and Durham
- Porter (doorkeeper), one of the minor orders of the Roman Catholic ministry; doorkeeper or gatekeeper
- Porter (railroad), railroad employee who assists passengers
- Pullman porter, men hired to work on the railroads as porters on sleeping cars
- Deal porter, dockworker specializing in handling baulks of softwood
- Doorman (profession)
- Groom Porter, official in charge of gambling in the Tudor court; the owner or operator of a gaming hall
- Kitchen Porter, a plongeur or marmiton position in the Brigade de cuisine of a commercial kitchen
Places
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Porter Brook, river in Sheffield, England
- United States
- Malone-Porter, Washington
- Porter, California
- Porter, Indiana
- Porter, Maine
- Porter, Minnesota
- Porter, New York
- Porter, Oklahoma
- Porter, Texas
- Porter, West Virginia
- Porter, Wisconsin, a town
- Porter County, Indiana
- Porter Heights, Texas
- Porter's Mills, Wisconsin, a ghost town
- Porter Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Porter (MBTA station), at that square
- Porter Township, Michigan (disambiguation) (three places)
- Porter Township, Pennsylvania (disambiguation) (seven places)
- Space
Other uses
- The Porter, a 2004 crime film
- Porter Assay, a method to measure proanthocyanidin (OPC) content of a sample
- Porter (band), Mexican indie band
- Porter (beer), type of beer
- Porter Airlines, Canadian regional airline based in Toronto
- Porter Chemical Company, a defunct U.S. toy manufacturer of chemistry sets
- Porter College, residential college at the University of California, Santa Cruz
- Porter five forces analysis, framework for industry analysis and business strategy development
- Porter generic strategies
- Porter Motor Company, defunct U.S. car manufacturer
- Porter's Regiment, American Revolutionary War soldiers under a Colonel Porter
- H. K. Porter, Inc, a locomotive manufacturer
- Hyundai Porter, a pickup truck
- Mazda Porter
- Miss Porter's School, in Farmington, Connecticut
- Piaggio Porter, electric van
- Pilatus PC-6 Porter, Swiss aircraft
- The porter, a character in Shakespeare's Macbeth
- Porter the dockside steamie,a character in Thomas and Friends, who introduced in season 17.
See also
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