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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
- Ctt. Portia, an orchid Cattlianthe
Other uses
- Portia (moon), a moon of Uranus
- PORTIA portfolio-management software from Thomson Financial
- HMS Lennox (1914) or HMS Portia, a Laforey-class destroyer launched in 1914
- HMS Portia (1810), a Crocus-class brig-sloop
- HMS Portia (1906), a shipwreck of August 1915
- HMS Portia (1916), an Admiralty M-class destroyer
People with the given name
- 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 Simpson-Miller, political leader of Jamaica's People's National Party and Prime Minister of Jamaica
- Portia White, Canadian singer
- Portia was the pen name of Abigail Adams
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
See also
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