Portia

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Portia may refer to:

Biology

• Portia (genus), 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

• Portia Dawson, American actress
• Portia DeGeneres or Portia de Rossi, Australian-born actress
• Portia Simpson-Miller, political leader of Jamaica's People's National Party and former Prime Minister of Jamaica
• Portia White, Canadian singer
• Portia was the pen name of Abigail Adams

Fictional

• Portia Quayne, the protagonist in The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
• Portia (The Merchant of Venice), a character in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice
• Portia Gibbons, character on The Mighty B!
• Portia, a minor character in The Hunger Games
• Portia Leach, the daughter of Archie Leach, in A Fish Called Wanda
• Portia Copeland, a character in Carson McCullers' novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• Portia Catonis, the wife of Roman senator Marcus Junius Brutus and a character in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar

See also

• Porcia (disambiguation)
• Porsche (disambiguation)