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Portia may refer to:
Biology
- Portia (spider), a genus of jumping spiders
- Anaea troglodyta or Portia, a brush-footed butterfly
- Portia tree, a plant native to Polynesia
Other uses
- Portia (moon), 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 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
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