Portia (given name)

Portia is a feminine given name taken from the name of the Roman Porcia gens, which was ultimately derived from the Latin porcus, or pig. It is best known as a character who disguises herself as a man to act as a lawyer and save the life of the defendant in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Porsha is a modern spelling variant.

Women

 * Portia (wife of Brutus) or Porcia, the wife of Roman senator Marcus Junius Brutus
 * Portia Arthur (born 1990), Ghanaian author, writer and reporter
 * Portia Dawson, American actress
 * Portia de Rossi or Portia DeGeneres, Australian-born actress
 * Portia Doubleday, American actress
 * Portia Geach (1873–1959), Australian artist and feminist
 * Portia Holman (1903–1983), Australian child psychiatrist
 * Portia Mansfield (1887–1979), American dance educator and choreographer
 * Portia Robinson (1926–2023), Australian historian
 * Portia Holmes Shields, American academic administrator
 * Portia Simpson-Miller, political leader of Jamaica's People's National Party and Prime Minister of Jamaica
 * Portia White, Canadian singer
 * Portia Zvavahera (born 1985), Zimbabwean painter

Pen name

 * Portia, pen name of Abigail Adams (1744–1818)
 * Portia, pen name of Grizelda Elizabeth Cottnam Tonge (1803–1825)

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, a 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
 * Portia Blake, the lead character in the American radio and television soap opera Portia Faces Life
 * Portia, a spider protagonist in Children of Time, a novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky
 * Portia, Door's mother in Neverwhere, a novel by Neil Gaiman
 * Portia Featherington, the matriarch of the Featherington family in the Bridgerton novels and Netflix adaptation.
 * Princess Portia, a character in Barbie: Princess Charm School.