Porky may refer to:
As a nickname
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Frank Biscan (1920-1959), Major League Baseball pitcher
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Gordon Brown (Canadian football)
Robert Gordon "Porky" Brown (1927 – December 20, 1987) was an award-winning and all-star guard in the Canadian Football League.
A native of Victoria, Brown was winner of the 1950 Dr. Beattie Martin Trophy for Canadian rookie of the year in the ...
(born 1927), Canadian Football League retired player
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Porky Chedwick, Pittsburgh radio disk jockey of the 1950s and 1960s
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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
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Dan Flynn (boxer) (1888-1946), American boxer
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Porky Freeman (1916-2001), American Western swing performer, bandleader, and songwriter
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Rafael López Aliaga, Peruvian politician
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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
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Ed Oliver (golfer) (1916-1961), American golfer
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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
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Hal Reniff (1938-2004), Major League Baseball pitcher
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Alex Romeril (1882-1968), Canadian hockey and football player, and first coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs
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John Zancocchio (born 1958), New York mobster
Fictional characters
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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 star power, and the animators created many crit ...
, 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 ...
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* Porky, the title character of ''
Porky's'', a 1982 Canadian film
* Silvester "Porky" Broadway, a character from ''
Lassie''
* Porky Pine, a character in the ''
Pogo'' comic strip by Walt Kelly
* Porky Minch, a character from the ''
Mother
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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 ge ...
'' video game series
Other uses
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Porky (novel), ''Porky'' (novel), a 1983 novel by Deborah Moggach
* Porky (''
Stephanolepis auratus''), a species of fish - see ''
Stephanolepis''
* Porky the Poet was a stage name used by the comedian
Phil Jupitus
Phillip Christopher Jupitus (, ''né'' Swan; born 25 June 1962) is an English stand-up and improv comedian, actor, performance poet, cartoonist and podcaster. Jupitus was a team captain on all but one BBC Two-broadcast episode of music quiz ' ...
early in his career
See also
* "Porkies", the
Porcupine Mountains of Michigan
* ''
Porky's'', a 1981 sex comedy film
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