Fictional Characters
- Alexander Portnoy, the protagonist of Philip Roth's 1969 novel Portnoy's Complaint
- Jeff Portnoy, a fictional comedic actor played by Jack Black in the 2008 film Tropic Thunder
- Portnoy (Bloom County character), a comic strip character from Bloom County
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