- a person hired to carry burdens or baggage, as at a railroad station or a hotel.
- a person who does cleaning and maintenance work in a building, factory, store, etc.
- an attendant in a railroad parlor car or sleeping car.
- a person who has charge of a door or gate; doorkeeper.
- ostiary (def. 1).
- a heavy, dark-brown ale made with malt browned by drying at a high temperature.
- U.S. composer.
- U.S. naval officer.
- Union naval officer in the Civil War.
- U.S. film director.
- U.S. novelist.
- British chemist: Nobel Prize 1967.
- U.S. writer.
- U.S. educator, writer, and lexicographer.
- British biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1972.
- U.S. short-story writer.
- a male given name.
- a person employed to carry luggage, parcels, supplies, etc, esp at a railway station or hotel
- (in hospitals) a person employed to move patients from place to place
- a railway employee who waits on passengers, esp in a sleeper
- a manual labourer
- a person in charge of a gate or door; doorman or gatekeeper
- a person employed by a university or college as a caretaker and doorkeeper who also answers enquiries
- a person in charge of the maintenance of a building, esp a block of flats
- a person ordained to what was formerly the lowest in rank of the minor orders
- a dark sweet ale brewed from black malt
- Cole. 1893–1964, US composer and lyricist of musical comedies. His most popular songs include Night and Day and Let's do It
- George, Baron Porter of Luddenham. 1920–2002, British chemist, who shared a Nobel prize for chemistry in 1967 for his work on flash photolysis
- Katherine Anne. 1890–1980, US short-story writer and novelist. Her best-known collections of stories are Flowering Judas (1930) and Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939)
- Rodney Robert. 1917–85, British biochemist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1972 for determining the structure of an antibody
- William Sidney. original name of O. Henry
