• Roy Sydney Porter FBA (31 December 1946 – 3 March 2002) was a British historian known for his work on the history of medicine. He retired in 2001 as the...
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  • Roy Porter (1946–2002) was a British historian of medicine and psychiatry. Roy Porter may also refer to: Roy Porter (drummer) (1923–1998), American jazz...
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  • Roy Lee Porter (July 30, 1923 – January 24, 1998) was an American jazz drummer. Born in Walsenburg, Colorado, Porter moved to Colorado Springs when he...
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  • Brandon Roy, who helped lead the squad to a perfect 29–0 record and the Washington Class 3A State Championship. Under the coaching of Roy, Porter averaged...
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  • Roy Porter Wilcox (June 30, 1873 – May 20, 1946) was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate. Wilcox was born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in 1873. He was admitted...
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    and has been reinforced by the large-scale studies by Robert Darnton, Roy Porter, and, most recently, by Jonathan Israel. Enlightenment thought was deeply...
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  • Joshua Roy Porter (7 May 1921 – 31 December 2006) was a British Anglican priest, theologian and author. Having been chaplain and fellow of Oriel College...
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  • Robert Clyde Porter (1891–1963) and May Elizabeth Porter, nee Johnson (1892–1976), Leslie Roy Porter was born at Footscray in August 1917. Porter married Nancy...
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    Morrow and Company. ISBN 0-688-00339-7. OCLC 5613740. Strathen, p 368 Roy Porter; Katharine Park; Lorraine Daston, eds. (2003). The Cambridge History of...
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    Countee Cullen (born Countee LeRoy Porter; May 30, 1903 – January 9, 1946) was an American poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright, particularly...
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    post-nominal letters FBA. Examples of Fellows are Edward Rand; Mary Beard; Roy Porter; Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford; Michael Lobban; M. R. James;...
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    which included music therapy. Nonetheless, British historian of medicine Roy Porter cautioned against idealising the role of hospitals generally in medieval...
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    Society, which is the oldest national scientific institution in the world. Roy Porter argues that the reason for the neglect was the assumption that the movement...
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    Citation taken from Roy Porter's The Cambridge History of Science: Eighteenth-century science. "Caricature – Encyclopedia". Roy Porter (2003). "Marginalized...
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  • Bagnall, Bruce W. Frier, The Demography of Roman Egypt, 2006, p.128 Roy Porter, Mikuláš Teich, Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science: The History of Attitudes...
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    ISBN 9780719050350. Porter, Roy. Madness: A Brief History. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2002. ISBN 9780192802675. Porter, Roy. Madmen: A Social History...
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  • for the series of histories in national context which he co-edited with Roy Porter. He was married to the economic historian Alice Teichova. Mikuláš Teich...
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    and doctor to priest". "Physic and faith", wrote historian of medicine Roy Porter "while generally complementary... sometimes tangled in border disputes...
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    pressure marker of diastole of the heart. Auscultatory gap Pulse pressure Roy Porter (2001). The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine. Cambridge University...
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    ISBN 978-0-14-190933-2 Cressy, David (1992), "The Fifth of November Remembered", in Roy Porter (ed.), Myths of the English, Polity Press, ISBN 978-0-7456-0844-0 Davis...
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  • Woodford Roy Porter (1918-2006) was the first African American to be elected to the Louisville board of education in 1959, and later became president of...
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    B. Ince. Cressy, David (1992). "The Fifth of November Remembered". In Roy Porter (ed.). Myths of the English. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 0-7456-0844-2...
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    ISBN 978-0-253-03714-5. JSTOR j.ctvpb3z6m. S2CID 264430742. George Rousseau and Roy Porter (1990). Exoticism in the Enlightenment (Manchester: Manchester University...
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  • Sandford Peter Wight as Roy Porter, Mary's husband, landlord of Sandford's pub, The Crown Julia Deakin as Mary Porter, Roy's wife, landlady of Sandford's...
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    Peter Grell and Roy Porter, "Toleration in Enlightenment and Europe" in Toleration in Enlightenment Europe, ed. Ole Peter Grell and Roy Porter (Cambridge:...
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    thinking, especially in the humanities and artistic fields. Historian Roy Porter wrote: He advanced challenging theoretical concepts such as unconscious...
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    Paso, to get to another Roy Porter-led gig, the car that Farmer was in overturned at high speed, leaving him concussed and Porter with broken ribs. Farmer's...
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    of New Mexico John R. Petrus (1923–2013), Wisconsin state legislator Roy Porter (1923–1998), jazz drummer Sam T. Taylor (1903–1977), Colorado state senator...
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    increasingly taking "center stage as a source of disease and site of cure". For Roy Porter, once the doyen of medical history, the often violent and invasive psychiatric...
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    end to the Israel-Hamas war. Describing Chastain's off-screen persona, Roy Porter of InStyle magazine wrote in 2015 that "she's an adult, which isn't always...
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