Porky may refer to:
As a nickname
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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
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Gordon Brown (Canadian football) (born 1927), Canadian Football League retired player
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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 h ...
, Pittsburgh radio disk jockey of the 1950s and 1960s
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Edward "Porky" Cragg (1919-1943), American World War II fighter ace
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Dan Flynn (boxer)
Dan Flynn (April 5, 1888 – 1946) was an American Boxer known as much for his ring skills as for his punch and dirty tactics. He apparently earned the nickname "Porky" from his pre-boxing days working in a sausage factory. He had a record ...
(1888-1946), American boxer
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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
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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
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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)
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
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George Peckham, British record engineer
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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
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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
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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 caporeg ...
(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 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 ...
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* 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''
* 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 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
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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 early in his career
See also
* "Porkies", the
Porcupine Mountains
The Porcupine Mountains, or Porkies, are a group of small mountains spanning the northwestern Upper Peninsula of Michigan in Ontonagon and Gogebic counties, near the shore of Lake Superior. The Porcupine Mountains were named by the native ...
of Michigan
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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 1981 sex comedy film
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