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Contemporary Notables of the name Portal (post 1700) +

  • Michel Portal (1935-2026), French composer, saxophonist and clarinetist
  • Alex Portal (b. 2002), French Paralympic swimmer
  • Alexia Portal, French actress best known for her role as Béatrice Romand's son's girlfriend in the 1998 film Autumn Tale
  • Sir Gerald Portal (1858-1894), English diplomatist, born at Laverstoke, second son of Melville Portal of Laverstoke, Hampshire
  • Abraham Portal (b. 1790), English dramatist, son of the clergyman Andrew Portal, a member of an ancient family of Huguenot origin, which migrated to England in 1686
  • Justin Portal Welby (b. 1956), English cleric, the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury from 2013 - 2024


  1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  2. New Zealand Yesteryears Passenger Lists 1800 to 1900 (Retrieved 17th October 2018). Retrieved from http://www.yesteryears.co.nz/shipping/passlist.html


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