People
- Porta (rapper) (born 1988), stagename of Christian Jiménez Bundo, a Spanish rap singer
- Carlo Porta (1775–1821), Italian poet in the Milanese dialect
- Costanzo Porta (1528–1601), Italian composer of the Renaissance
- Giacomo della Porta (1532–1602), Italian sculptor and architect
- Giambattista della Porta (1535–1615), Neapolitan physician and playwright
- Giovanni Porta (1675–1755), Italian composer
- Hugo Porta (born 1951), Argentinean rugby union footballer
- Livio Dante Porta (1923–2003), Argentinean engineer
- Richard Porta (born 1983), Uruguayan Australian footballer
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“There’re two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.”
—Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)
“For you are a people holy to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession. It was not because you were more numerous than any other people that the LORD set his heart on you and chose you -for you were the fewest of all peoples.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 7:6,7.
“If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I’d have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven’t even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)