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Portia may refer to:
Biology
Other uses
People with the given name
Portia (given name) , the history and usage of the given name
Portia Arthur (born 1990), Ghanaian author, writer and reporter
Porcia Catonis , the wife of Roman senator Marcus Junius Brutus (fictionalized as a character in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar as "Portia")
Portia Dawson , American actress
Portia de Rossi or Portia DeGeneres, Australian-born actress
Portia Doubleday , American actress
Portia Geach (1873–1959), Australian artist and feminist
Portia Holman (1903–1983), Australian child psychiatrist
Portia Mansfield (1887–1979), American dance educator and choreographer
Portia Robinson (1926–2023), Australian historian
Portia Holmes Shields , American academic administrator
Portia Simpson-Miller , political leader of Jamaica's People's National Party and Prime Minister of Jamaica
Portia White , Canadian singer
Portia Zvavahera (born 1985), Zimbabwean painter
Portia, pen name of
Abigail Adams (1744-1818)
Portia, pen name of
Grizelda Elizabeth Cottnam Tonge (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 by Elizabeth Bowen
Portia Gibbons , character on The Mighty B!
Portia, a minor character in
The Hunger Games
Portia Copeland, a character in Carson McCullers' novel
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Portia Blake, the lead character in the American radio and television soap opera
Portia Faces Life
Portia, the name for the frequently changed spider protagonist in
Children of Time , a novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Portia, Door's mother in
Neverwhere , a novel by Neil Gaiman
See also
Topics referred to by the same term