Porter may refer to:

Companies

Porter Airlines Porter Airlines (stylized in all lowercase as porter) is a regional airline headquartered at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport on the Toronto Islands in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Owned by Porter Aviation Holdings, formerly known as REGCO Holdin ...

, Canadian regional airline based in Toronto *

Porter Chemical Company Porter Chemical Company was an American toy manufacturer that developed and produced chemistry sets aimed as educational toys for aspiring junior scientists. The company's ''Chemcraft'' kits were first sold at major retail by Woodward & Lothrop, an ...

, a defunct U.S. toy manufacturer of chemistry sets *

Porter Motor Company The Porter Motor Company was an early American steam automobile manufacturer based in Allston, Massachusetts.Clymer, Floyd. ''Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925'' (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.13. Major Dane Porter (first nam ...

, defunct U.S. car manufacturer *

H.K. Porter, Inc. H.K. Porter, Inc. (Porter) manufactured light-duty railroad locomotives in the US, starting in 1866. The company became the largest producer of industrial locomotives, and built almost eight thousand of them. The last locomotive was built in ...

, a locomotive manufacturer

People

* Porter (name), an English surname and given name (including a list of persons with the name)

Occupations

Porter (carrier) A porter, also called a bearer, is a person who carries objects or cargo for others. The range of services conducted by porters is extensive, from shuttling luggage aboard a train (a railroad porter) to bearing heavy burdens at altitude in i ...

, a person who carries objects * Porter (college), a member of staff in many of the colleges of the Universities of Cambridge, Lancaster, Oxford and Durham *

Porter (railroad) A porter is a railway employee. The role of a porter is to assist passengers at railway stations, and to handle the loading, unloading, and distribution of luggage and parcels. In the United States the term was formerly used for employees who atte ...

, a railroad employee who assists passengers at stations * Porter (monastery), the monk appointed to be the one who interacts with the public *

Pullman porter Pullman porters were men hired to work for the railroads as porters on sleeping cars. Starting shortly after the American Civil War, George Pullman sought out former slaves to work on his sleeper cars. Their job was to carry passengers’ bagga ...

, a railroad employee who assists passengers on sleeping cars * Deal porter, a dockworker specializing in handling baulks of softwood * Doorman (profession), American English for the occupation known in British English as porter *

Groom Porter The Groom Porter was an office at the royal court of the monarch of Britain, who had "the Inspection of the King's Lodgings, and takes care that they are provided with Tables, Chairs, Firing, &c. As also to provide Cards, Dice, &c. when there is ...

, official in charge of gambling in the Tudor court; the owner or operator of a gaming hall *

Hospital porter Hospital porters are employed to move patients between wards and departments and to move goods and vital supplies including medical equipment, linen, blood, and samples. This is generally not regarded as skilled work, it attracts little attention a ...

, an assistant in a hospital * Kitchen porter, a ''plongeur'' or ''marmiton'', position in the ''Brigade de cuisine'' of a commercial kitchen *

Ostiarius An ostiarius, a Latin word sometimes anglicized as ostiary but often literally translated as porter or doorman, originally was a servant or guard posted at the entrance of a building. See also gatekeeper. In the Roman Catholic Church, this "por ...

, formerly known as doorkeeper or porter, one of the minor orders of the Roman Catholic ministry *

Bar-back A bar-back or barback (commonly known as a runner in Europe or a glassy in Australia) is a bartender's assistant. Bar-backs work in nightclubs, bars, pubs, restaurants, and catering halls, and usually receive a portion of the bartender's tips. At hi ...

, sometimes known as porter, a bartender's assistant

Places

United Kingdom

Porter Brook The Porter Brook is a river which flows through the City of Sheffield, England, descending over from its source on Burbage Moor to the west of the city to its mouth where it joins the River Sheaf in a culvert beneath Sheffield railway statio ...

, river in Sheffield, England * The Little Don River also known as the Porter, a tributary of the River Don in South Yorkshire, England

United States

Malone-Porter, Washington Malone-Porter was a census-designated place (CDP) in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States. The population was 473 at the 2000 census. For the 2010 census the area was split into two CDPs, Malone and Porter, two small towns located just ...

* Porter, Indiana *

Porter, Maine Porter is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States. It is included in the Portland- South Portland-Biddeford, Maine metropolitan New England City and Town Area. Porter includes Porter village and part of Kezar Falls. The population was 1,60 ...

* Porter, Minnesota * Porter, Missouri * Porter, New York * Porter, Ohio * Porter, Oklahoma * Porter, Texas * Porter, West Virginia * Porter, Wisconsin, a town * Porter County, Indiana * Porter Heights, Texas * Porter's Mills, Wisconsin, a ghost town *

Porter Square Porter Square is a neighborhood in Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts, located around the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Somerville Avenue, between Harvard and Davis Squares. The Porter Square station serves both the MBTA Red Li ...

, in Cambridge, Massachusetts **

Porter (MBTA station) Porter is a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) transit station in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It serves the Red Line rapid transit line, the MBTA Commuter Rail Fitchburg Line, and several MBTA bus lines. Located at Porter Square at ...

, at that square *

Porter Township, Michigan (disambiguation) Porter Township is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Michigan: * Porter Township, Cass County, Michigan * Porter Township, Midland County, Michigan * Porter Township, Van Buren County, Michigan Porter Township is a civil township of ...

(three places) * Porter Township, Pennsylvania (disambiguation) (seven places)

Space

Porter (lunar crater) Porter is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern part of the Moon, and lies across the northeastern rim of the huge walled plain Clavius. Although generally circular, the form of this crater has been modified by the geometry of the ...

Porter (Martian crater) Porter is a large-scale impact crater in the Thaumasia quadrangle on the planet Mars, situated in Aonia Terra at 50.8° south and 113.9º west. The impact caused a bowl across. The name was chosen in 1973 by the International Astronomical Union i ...

Vehicles

* Hyundai Porter, a pickup truck *

Mazda Porter The Mazda Porter and Porter Cab are a series of small kei trucks that were produced from 1961 to 1989 (as the B360/B600 until 1968) by Mazda, mainly for sale in the domestic Japanese market. Export versions of the Porter were labelled E360. The Port ...

, a series of small trucks *

Piaggio Porter The Piaggio Porter is a cab over microvan and pick-up produced and sold by the Italian company Piaggio since 1992 under the ''Piaggio Commercial Vehicle'' brand. First generation (1992) Development The collaboration project between Piaggio and ...

, electric van * Pilatus PC-6 Porter, Swiss aircraft

Other uses

* Porter (band), a Mexican indie band * Porter (beer), a type of beer * ''Porter'' (magazine), a fashion publication *

The Porter (horse) The Porter (May 15, 1915 – October 1944) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He won 26 times from 54 starts in a career that lasted five years, and was second in the 1918 Preakness Stakes. He became an important sire, Leading sire in North ...

, an American Thoroughbred racehorse and leading sire * ''The Porter'' (TV series), a Canadian television series that debuted in 2022 * Porter College, a residential college at the University of California, Santa Cruz *Porter, a character in the ''Thomas and Friends'' TV series