Cole Albert Porter (9 Juni 1891 – 15 Oktober 1964) adalah seorang pencipta lagu dari AS, dilahirkan di Peru, Indiana. Beberapa karyanya yang terkenal adalah musical Kiss Me, Kate (1948) (didasarkan pada The Taming of the Shrew), Fifty Million Frenchmen, dan Anything Goes. Ia belajar main biola pada usia 6 tahun, piano pada usia 8 tahun, dan menulis operetta pertamanya (dibantu ibunya) pada usia 10 tahun. Porter kemudian bersekolah di Worcester Academy, Yale University, dan lantas Harvard Law School untuk menjadi pengacara, tetapi kemudian pindah ke jurusan seni musik.

Daftar lagu terkenal

(1916) See America First (1919) Hitchy Koo Of 1919 — "An Old Fashioned Garden" (1929) Wake Up And Dream — "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (1929) Fifty Million Frenchmen — "You Do Something To Me" (1933) Nymph Errant — "Experiment," "The Physician," "It's Bad For Me" (1936) Red, Hot and Blue — "It's De-Lovely" (1937) You Never Know — "At Long Last Love," "From Alpha To Omega" (1938) Leave It to Me! — "From Now On," "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" (1940) Panama Hattie — "Let's Be Buddies," "Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please" (1941) Let's Face It — "Everything I Love," "I Hate You, Darling" (1942) Something for the Boys — "Could It Be You" (1942) Something To Shout About — "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (1944) Seven Lively Arts — "Every Time We Say Goodbye" (1946) Around the World in Eighty Days — "Look What I Found" (1947) The Pirate — "Be a Clown" (1948) Kiss Me, Kate — "Another Op'nin', Another Show," "Brush Up Your Shakespeare," "I Hate Men," "So In Love," "Too Darn Hot" (1954) Silk Stockings — "All Of You," "Paris Loves Lovers" (1956) Les Girls — "Ca, C'est L'amour," "You're Just Too, Too"

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Cole Porter di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris) Cole Porter Birthplace & Museum Gay Greats - Cole Porter