Porter

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

• Malone-Porter, Washington
• Porter, Indiana
• Porter, Maine
• Porter, Minnesota
• Porter, Missouri
• Porter, New York
• Porter, Ohio
• 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

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

Vehicles

• Hyundai Porter, a pickup truck
• Mazda Porter, a series of small trucks
• Piaggio Porter, electric van
• Pilatus PC-6 Porter, Swiss aircraft
• Porter Gyropachute, a 1910s VTOL aircraft

Other uses

• Porter (band), a Mexican indie band
• Porter (beer), a type of beer
• Porter (magazine), a fashion publication
• 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)