People
- Portia Catonis, the wife of Roman senator Marcus Junius Brutus and a character in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar
- Portia Dawson, American actress
- Portia DeGeneres, formerly 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
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