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 "Por ...

(1920–1959), Major League Baseball pitcher * Gordon Brown (Canadian football) (born 1927), Canadian Football League retired player *

Porky Chedwick George Jacob "Porky" Chedwick (February 4, 1918 – March 2, 2014) was an American radio announcer known to generations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as "The Daddio of the Raddio", "The Platter Pushin' Papa", "The Bossman", "Pork the Tork", and a ...

, 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 Flying ace, ace (15 kills) and a Major (United States), major in the United States Army Air Forces. Biography Ea ...

(1919–1943), American World War II fighter ace * Dan Flynn (boxer) (1888–1946), American boxer * Porky Freeman (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, the successor to National Solidarity in 2020. ...

, Peruvian politician * Paul Morgan (rugby league, died 2001) (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 st ...

(1916–1961), American golfer *

George Peckham George "Porky" Peckham (born 1942) 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 been pressed over the ...

, British record engineer * Hal Reniff (1938–2004), Major League Baseball pitcher *

Alex Romeril Alexander Edward "Porky" Romeril (December 29, 1893 – May 17, 1968) was a Canadian amateur ice hockey player, football player, National Hockey League referee, and the first coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Career Romeril played junior hockey w ...

(1882–1968), Canadian hockey and football player, and first coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs * John Zancocchio (born 1958), New York mobster

Fictional characters

Porky Pig Porky Pig is a cartoon 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 man ...

, 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, who also pr ...

'' * 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 stars Kim Cattrall, Scott Colomby, Kaki Hunter, Nancy Parsons, Alex Ka ...

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

Lassie Lassie is a fictional female Rough Collie dog and is featured in a 1938 short story by Eric Knight that was later expanded to a 1940 full-length novel, '' Lassie Come-Home''. Knight's portrayal of Lassie bears some features in common with anot ...

'' * Porky Pine, a character in the ''

Pogo Pogo, PoGo or POGO may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Gaming * Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator, any Philippines-based online gambling service * Pogo.com, a website featuring free online games Music * "Pogo", a song by Digitalism * ...

'' comic strip by Walt Kelly *

Porky Minch , known in the localization as Pokey Minch, is a character in the Mother (video game series), ''Mother'' series, also called ''EarthBound''. He is one of the main antagonists of ''EarthBound'', and the main antagonist of its sequel, ''Mother 3''. H ...

, 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 birth, by raising a child who may or may not be her biological offspring, or by supplying her ovum for fertilisation in the case of ges ...

'' video game series

Other uses

* ''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, wi ...

''), 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, wi ...

'' * Porky the Poet was a stage name used by the comedian

Phill Jupitus Phillip Christopher Jupitus (, ''Given name#Name at birth, né'' Swan; born 25 June 1962) is a retired English stand-up comedy, stand-up and Improv comedy teacher, improv comedian, actor, performance poetry, performance poet, cartoonist and podc ...

early in his career

As a nickname

Fictional characters

Other uses

See also