Porter

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Porter may refer to:

Companies

  • Porter Airlines, Canadian airline based in Toronto
  • Porter Chemical Company, a defunct U.S. toy manufacturer of chemistry sets
  • Porter Motor Company, defunct U.S. car manufacturer
  • H.K. Porter, Inc., a locomotive manufacturer

People

  • Porter (name), an English surname and given name (including a list of persons with the name)

Occupations

  • Porter (carrier), a person who carries objects
  • Porter (college), a member of staff in many of the colleges of the Universities of Cambridge, Lancaster, Oxford and Durham
  • Porter (railroad), a railroad employee who assists passengers at stations
  • Porter (monastery), the monk appointed to be the one who interacts with the public
  • Pullman porter, a railroad employee who assists passengers on sleeping cars
  • Deal porter, a dockworker specializing in handling baulks of softwood
  • Doorman (profession), American English for the occupation known in British English as porter
  • Groom Porter, official in charge of gambling in the Tudor court; the owner or operator of a gaming hall
  • Hospital porter, an assistant in a hospital
  • Kitchen porter, a plongeur or marmiton, position in the Brigade de cuisine of a commercial kitchen
  • Ostiarius, formerly known as doorkeeper or porter, one of the minor orders of the Roman Catholic ministry
  • Bar-back, sometimes known as porter, a bartender's assistant

Places

United Kingdom

  • Porter Brook, river in Sheffield, England
  • The Little Don River also known as the Porter, a tributary of the River Don in South Yorkshire, England

United States

Space

  • Porter (lunar crater)
  • Porter (Martian crater)

Vehicles

Other uses

  • Porter (band), a Mexican indie band
  • Porter (beer), a type of beer
  • Porter (magazine), a fashion publication
  • The Porter (2004 film), a film displaying the Mercedes-Benz CLS
  • The Porter (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse and leading sire
  • The Porter (TV series), a Canadian television series that debuted in 2022
  • Porter College, a residential college at the University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Porter, a character in the Thomas and Friends TV series
  • Porter, a character in the play Macbeth

See also

  • Port (disambiguation)
  • Miss Porter's School, also known as Porter's, a school in Connecticut, United States
  • Porter's Regiment, American Revolutionary War soldiers under Colonel Porter
  • Porters (disambiguation)
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