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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:
*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 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
* Keith R. Porter, scientist
* Henry Kirke Porter, Industrialist
* Michael Porter, Economist
* Patrick Porter, Fashion designer
* 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)
* John Addison Porter -- American (US) Professor of Chemistry

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