Porter - Definition and Overview

• Porter - a person who carries objects
• Porter - the alcoholic drink
• Porter - one of the minor orders of the Roman Catholic ministry / a doorkeeper or gatekeeper
• 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 and Oxford
• H. K. Porter, Inc was a manufacturer of small railroad locomotives.

• 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 and Malone-Porter, Washington.)

• People whose surname is or was Porter include
  • Cole Porter, Composer
  • Eleanor H. Porter, author of children's literature
  • Eliot Porter, Historian of arts
  • Katherine Anne Porter, Writer
  • Henry Kirke Porter, Industrialist
  • Michael Porter, Economist
  • Roy Porter, Historian of medicine
  • Russell W. Porter, Co-founder of the Amateur Telescope Makers movement