Porky may refer to:

As a nickname

Frank Biscan Frank Stephen Biscan (March 13, 1920 – May 22, 1959) was an American professional baseball player, a left-handed pitcher who appeared in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Browns in parts of three seasons (1942; 1946; 1948). Nicknamed "Pork ...

(1920-1959), Major League Baseball pitcher * Gordon Brown (Canadian football) (born 1927), Canadian Football League retired player * Porky Chedwick, Pittsburgh radio disk jockey of the 1950s and 1960s *

Edward "Porky" Cragg Edward "Porky" Cragg (September 8, 1919 – missing in action December 26, 1943 – finding of death January 16, 1946) was a triple ace (15 kills) and a major in the United States Army Air Forces. Biography Early life Edward Cragg was born at M ...

(1919-1943), American World War II fighter ace * Dan Flynn (boxer) (1888-1946), American boxer *

Porky Freeman Quilla Hugh "Porky" Freeman (June 29, 1916 in Vera Cruz, Missouri, United States – July 8, 2001) was an American Western swing performer, bandleader, and songwriter. He was also an electric guitar pioneer and inventor. In the 1940s he led ...

(1916-2001), American Western swing performer, bandleader, and songwriter *

Rafael López Aliaga Rafael Bernardo López Aliaga Cazorla (born 11 February 1961) is a Peruvian businessman and politician, who is serving as mayor of Lima since 2023. He is currently the leader of Popular Renewal Entering politics late in his career, López Alia ...

, Peruvian politician *

Paul Morgan (rugby league) Paul "Porky" Morgan (died 26 January 2001) was an Australian rugby league footballer, administrator and businessman. He is remembered for being co-founder of the Brisbane Broncos club. The Paul Morgan Medal for the Brisbane Broncos' best and f ...

(died 2001), Australian rugby league player and businessman *

Ed Oliver (golfer) Edward Stewart "Porky" Oliver, Jr. (September 6, 1915 – September 21, 1961) was a professional golfer from the United States. He played on what is now known as the PGA Tour in the 1940s and 1950s. Career Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Oliver sta ...

(1916-1961), American golfer *

George Peckham George "Porky" Peckham (born 1942, Blackburn, Lancashire) is an English record engineer, widely recognised as among the most accomplished in the business. He has been responsible for producing the master discs from which many vinyl records have ...

, British record engineer *

Hal Reniff Harold Eugene Reniff (July 2, 1938 – September 7, 2004) was an American professional baseball player. The right-handed relief pitcher appeared in Major League Baseball for all or parts of seven seasons, from to , almost exclusively as a member ...

(1938-2004), Major League Baseball pitcher * Alex Romeril (1882-1968), Canadian hockey and football player, and first coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs *

John Zancocchio John "Porky" Zancocchio (born November 27, 1957) is an American mobster and former Consigliere with the Bonanno crime family who is a loanshark and a bookmaker. Biography Born in Brooklyn, New York, Zancocchio started working under Bonanno caporegi ...

(born 1958), New York mobster

Fictional characters

Porky Pig Porky Pig is an animated character in the Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his celebrity, star power, and the animators created ma ...

, a character from Looney Tunes * Porky, a character in ''

Our Gang ''Our Gang'' (also known as ''The Little Rascals'' or ''Hal Roach's Rascals'') is an American series of comedy short films chronicling a group of poor neighborhood children and their adventures. Created by film producer Hal Roach, also the ...

'' * Porky, the title character of ''

Porky's ''Porky's'' is a 1981 sex comedy film written and directed by Bob Clark about the escapades of teenagers in 1954 at the fictional Angel Beach High School in Florida. The film influenced many writers in the teen film genre and spawned two sequels: ...

'', a 1982 Canadian film * Silvester "Porky" Broadway, a character from ''

Lassie Lassie is a fictional female Rough Collie dog and is featured in a short story by Eric Knight that was later expanded to a full-length novel called ''Lassie Come-Home''. Knight's portrayal of Lassie bears some features in common with another fic ...

'' * Porky Pine, a character in the '' Pogo'' comic strip by Walt Kelly * Porky Minch, a character from the ''

Mother ] A mother is the female parent of a child. A woman may be considered a mother by virtue of having given childbirth, birth, by raising a child who may or may not be her biological offspring, or by supplying her ovum for fertilisation in the cas ...

'' video game series

Other uses

* Porky (novel), ''Porky'' (novel), a 1983 novel by Deborah Moggach * Porky (''

Stephanolepis auratus ''Stephanolepis'' is a genus of bony fish in the family Monacanthidae, the filefishes. Members of this genus are unusual-shaped fish and have a very rough skin which gives them their common name. They are laterally flattened and deep bodied wit ...

''), a species of fish - see ''

Stephanolepis ''Stephanolepis'' is a genus of bony fish in the family Monacanthidae, the filefishes. Members of this genus are unusual-shaped fish and have a very rough skin which gives them their common name. They are laterally flattened and deep bodied wit ...

'' * Porky the Poet was a stage name used by the comedian Phil Jupitus early in his career

As a nickname

Fictional characters

Other uses

See also