Famous People with Name Porter

Porter Wayne Wagoner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Porter Wayne Wagoner: was an American country music singer. Famous for his flashy Nudie suits and blond pompadour, Wagoner introduced a young Dolly Parton to his long-running television show. Together, "Porter and Dolly" were a well-known duet team throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. Parton wrote the song "I Will Always Love You" after Wagoner suggested she shift from story songs to focus on love songs. [1]

Porter Johnston Goss            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Porter Johnston Goss: is an American politician, who was the last Director of Central Intelligence and the first Director of the Central Intelligence Agency following the passage of the IRTPA 2004 Act, which abolished the DCI position. A CIA officer in Latin America during the Cold War, he served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 until he took up his post at the agency.[1]

Porter Hardy, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Porter Hardy, Jr.: was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.Hardy was elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth and to the ten succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1969). He was not a candidate for reelection in 1968 to the Ninety-first Congress. Formerly director

Don Porter            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Don Porter: was an American actor who appeared in a number of films in the 1940s, including Top Sergeant and Eagle Squadron, but is perhaps best known for his role as Russell Lawrence, the widowed father of 15 year old Frances "Gidget" Lawrence (Sally Field) in the 1965 ABC television series, Gidget.

Sylvia Field Porter            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sylvia Field Porter: was an American economist and journalist. At the height of her career, her readership was greater than 40 million people.Born Patchogue, New York, on Long Island as Sylvia Field Feldman, she aspired to be an author at the age of six. Originally majoring in English literature, she switched to economics and finance after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. It has been suggested that her fiancee, bank employee Reed Porter, was relying upon Sylvia to explain the complications of the worldwide financial panic . They were married in 1931.

Alisan Porter            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alisan Porter: is the American vocalist and keyboardist of the Las Vegas-based rock band The Killers.Flowers, after dropping out of college, was a bellhop for a while at the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.[citation needed] In 2001, he was abandoned by the first band that he was in, a synth pop band known as Blush Response, after he declined to move with the rest of them to Los Angeles, California.[citation needed] Shortly thereafter, Flowers attended an Oasis concert, and realizing that he wanted to make the transition from a keyboard band to a true rock band, began searching for a guitarist.[citation needed] He responded to an ad that Dave Keuning had placed in the paper that listed, among other bands,

Fairfield Porter            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Fairfield Porter: was an American painter and art critic.[1] He was the brother of photographer Eliot Porter and the brother-in-law of federal Reclamation Commissioner Michael W. Straus.His subjects were primarily landscapes, domestic interiors and portraits of family, friends and fellow artists, many of them affiliated with the New York School of writers, including John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler. Many of his paintings were set in or around the family summer house on Great Spruce Head Island, Maine.

Philip S. Porter            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Philip S. Porter: is a martial artist in the United States. He began his martial arts career at age 18 (in 1943), and has expertise in a variety of martial arts, with major emphasis in judo and jujitsu. He has had a long and active history.