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Porter may refer to:
Companies
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 Township, Michigan (disambiguation) (three places)
Porter Township, Pennsylvania (disambiguation) (seven places)
Space
Vehicles
Other uses
See also
Topics referred to by the same term