Portia may refer to:

Biology

* ''Portia'' (spider), a genus of jumping spiders *'' Anaea troglodyta'' or Portia, a brush-footed butterfly *

Portia tree ''Thespesia populnea'', commonly known as the portia tree (), Pacific rosewood, Indian tulip tree, or milo, among other names, is a species of flowering plant belonging to the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is a tree found commonly on coasts ar ...

, a plant native to Polynesia

Medication

A form of birth control made of ethinylestradiol/levonorgestrel

Other uses

Portia (moon) Portia is an inner satellite of Uranus. It was discovered from the images taken by '' Voyager 2'' on 3 January 1986, and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 1. The moon is named after Portia, the heroine of William Shakespea ...

, a moon of Uranus * Portia Club, a women's club in Payette, Idaho/USA * Portia, Missouri, a community in the United States * PORTIA portfolio-management software from Thomson Financial * HMS ''Lennox'' (1914) or HMS ''Portia'', a ''Laforey''-class destroyer launched in 1914

People with the given name

* Portia Arthur (born 1990), Ghanaian author, writer and reporter *

Porcia Catonis The gens Porcia, rarely written Portia, was a plebeian family at Ancient Rome. Its members first appear in history during the third century BC. The first of the gens to achieve the consulship was Marcus Porcius Cato in 195 BC, and from then unt ...

, the wife of Roman senator Marcus Junius Brutus (fictionalized as a character in William Shakespeare's play ''Julius Caesar'' as "Portia") *

Portia Dawson Portia Dawson (born August 2, 1971) is an American film and television actress. Her first role was in Vanilla Ice's movie, ''Cool as Ice''. Her most notable television role was a recurring part on the 1990s sitcom '' Blossom'' as Anthony's girlf ...

, American actress *

Portia de Rossi Portia Lee James DeGeneres (born Amanda Lee Rogers; 31 January 1973), known professionally as Portia de Rossi, is an Australian-American former actress. She played Nelle Porter on the American drama series '' Ally McBeal'' (1998–2002), for wh ...

or Portia DeGeneres, Australian-born actress *

Portia Doubleday Portia Ann Doubleday is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Sheeni Saunders in the film '' Youth in Revolt'' (2009), Chris Hargensen in the film '' Carrie'' (2013), and as Angela Moss in the USA Network television drama ''Mr ...

, American actress * Portia Geach (1873–1959), Australian artist and feminist *

Portia Holman Portia Grenfell Holman (20 November 1903 – 16 May 1983) was an Australian child psychiatrist who practiced in London. Early life and education Holman was born in 1903 in Sydney; she was the only child of William Holman, who would become the Pre ...

(1903–1983), Australian child psychiatrist *

Portia Mansfield Portia Mansfield (November 19, 1887 – January 29, 1979) was an American dance educator and choreographer. She was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2004. The daughter of Edward R. Swett, a hotel manager, and Myra Mansfield, ...

(1887–1979), American dance educator and choreographer *

Portia Simpson-Miller Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller (born 12 December 1945) is a Jamaican politician. She served as Prime Minister of Jamaica from March 2006 to September 2007 and again from 5 January 2012 to 3 March 2016. She was the leader of the People's Nationa ...

, political leader of Jamaica's People's National Party and Prime Minister of Jamaica *

Portia White Portia May White (June 24, 1911February 13, 1968) was a Canadian contralto, known for becoming the first Black Canadian concert singer to achieve international fame. Growing up as part of her father's church choir in Halifax, Nova Scotia, White ...

, Canadian singer *

Portia Zvavahera Portia Zvavahera (born 1985) is a Zimbabwean painter. Early life Zvavahera was born in Zimbabwe. She studied at the BAT Visual Arts Studio at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe from 2003 to 2005 and obtained a diploma in visual arts from Harare ...

(born 1985), Zimbabwean painter *Portia, pen name of

Abigail Adams Abigail Adams ( ''née'' Smith; November 22, [ O.S. November 11] 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, as well as the mother of John Quincy Adams. She was a founder of the United States, an ...

(1744-1818) *Portia, pen name of

Grizelda Elizabeth Cottnam Tonge Grizelda Elizabeth Cottnam Tonge, who wrote under the name Portia, (1803-1825) was a Nova Scotian poet who has been called the "highly-gifted songstress of Acadia." Tonge's poetic talent, combined with the tragic circumstances of her early death, b ...

(1803-1825)

Fictional

* Portia (''The Merchant of Venice''), a character in William Shakespeare's play ''The Merchant of Venice'' *Portia Quayne, the protagonist in ''

The Death of the Heart ''The Death of the Heart'' is a 1938 novel by Elizabeth Bowen set in the interwar period. It is about a sixteen-year-old orphan, Portia Quayne, who moves to London to live with her half-brother Thomas and falls in love with Eddie, a friend of h ...

'' by Elizabeth Bowen *

Portia Gibbons This is a list of characters on the animated television series ''The Mighty B!''. __TOC__ The Higgenbottoms Bessie Higgenbottom Bessie Kajolica Higgenbottom is a 9¾-year-old, geeky, bespectacled "Honeybee Scout" characterized by her extreme h ...

, character on ''The Mighty B!'' *Portia, a minor character in ''

The Hunger Games ''The Hunger Games'' is a series of young adult dystopian novels written by American author Suzanne Collins. The first three novels are part of a trilogy following teenage protagonist Katniss Everdeen, and the fourth book is a prequel set ...

'' *Portia Copeland, a character in Carson McCullers' novel ''

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter ''The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter'' (1940) is the debut novel by the American author Carson McCullers; she was 23 at the time of publication. It is about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in the US state ...

'' *Portia Blake, the lead character in the American radio and television soap opera ''

Portia Faces Life Portia Faces Life, is an American soap opera first broadcast as a radio series from 1940 to 1953, and then on television for a single season in the mid-1950s. It began in syndication on April 1, 1940, and was broadcast on some stations that carri ...

'' *Portia, the name for the frequently changed spider protagonist in ''

Children of Time (novel) ''Children of Time'' is a 2015 science fiction novel by author Adrian Tchaikovsky. The work was praised by the ''Financial Times'' for "tackling big themes—gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness—with brio." It was selected from ...

'', a novel by

Adrian Tchaikovsky Adrian Czajkowski (spelled as Adrian Tchaikovsky for his books) is a British fantasy and science fiction author. He is known best for his series ''Shadows of the Apt'', and for his novel '' Children of Time''. ''Children of Time'' was awarded t ...

'' *Portia, Door's mother in ''

Neverwhere ''Neverwhere'' is an urban fantasy television miniseries by Neil Gaiman that first aired in 1996 on BBC 2. The series is set in "London Below", a magical realm coexisting with the more familiar London, referred to as "London Above". It was d ...

'', a novel by Neil Gaiman

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