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== Cats famous in their own right ==
== Cats famous in their own right ==
*'''[[All Ball]]''', the first cat of [[Koko (gorilla)|Koko the gorilla]].
*'''[[All Ball]]''', the first cat of [[Koko (gorilla)|Koko the gorilla]].
*'''DEVON BASHFORD''', the dunbest cat aroud he could even dance (GOGO dance) love u deven.
*'''Amber''', one of two cats in the title role of the movie ''[[The Cat from Outer Space]]''.<ref name="AD">[http://www.citizenlunchbox.com/famous/cats-A-D.html Index of Famous Cats, A through D]</ref>
*'''Amber''', one of two cats in the title role of the movie ''[[The Cat from Outer Space]]''.<ref name="AD">[http://www.citizenlunchbox.com/famous/cats-A-D.html Index of Famous Cats, A through D]</ref>
*'''Andy''', cat owned by [[Florida State Senate|Florida State Senator]] Ken Meyer that has the cat record for non-fatal fall. Andy fell 200 feet (60 m) and survived.<ref name="AD"/>
*'''Andy''', cat owned by [[Florida State Senate|Florida State Senator]] Ken Meyer that has the cat record for non-fatal fall. Andy fell 200 feet (60 m) and survived.<ref name="AD"/>

Revision as of 13:48, 9 March 2009

This is a list of specific natural cats. For fictional cats refer to "List of fictional cats".

Cats famous in their own right

  • All Ball, the first cat of Koko the gorilla.
  • DEVON BASHFORD, the dunbest cat aroud he could even dance (GOGO dance) love u deven.
  • Amber, one of two cats in the title role of the movie The Cat from Outer Space.[1]
  • Andy, cat owned by Florida State Senator Ken Meyer that has the cat record for non-fatal fall. Andy fell 200 feet (60 m) and survived.[1]
  • Ariel, the "Orange Persian" pet of author Carl Van Vechten, title character in the book The Tiger in the House.[1]
  • Arnold Shortzenlegger, the Munchkin cat sold for $15,000, owned by Terri Harris of Munchkinlane Cattery.
  • Baby, world's oldest cat, born in 1970, died 30 March 2008. [1]
  • Billy Hayes, New Zealand top show and advertisement cat featured in Jelly Meat in 2002 and 2003.
  • Binky, the cat that inspired Susan Becker's book Pulling A Jack Move On My Cat #6.[1]
  • Blackberry, the first munchkin cat.[1]
  • Blackie, a cat that inherited 15 million British Pounds and thus became the richest cat in history.[2]
  • Boche, cat found by the family of Anne Frank in the attic in which they lived.[1]
  • Bonkers, the cat from television's All My Children.[1]
  • Boots, the smallest known cat in the world.[1]
  • Bouhaki, a cat long alleged to be the first cat known to have a name.[1]
  • Brownie, a housecat that inherited $415,000.00 when its owner Dr. William Grier died.[1]
  • Burbank, Danny Glover's pet cat from Lethal Weapon.[1]
  • Catarina, Edgar Allan Poe's pet cat and the inspiration for his story The Black Cat.[1]
  • Chessie, the mascot of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, and later the Chessie System, whose slogan was "sleep like a kitten."[1]
  • Childebrand, from Théophile Gautier's book Ménagerie intime.[1]
  • Cinnamon, an Abysssian cat whose genome was sequenced
  • Cleopatra, tawny-black cat from Gautier's Ménagerie intime.[1]
  • CC (Copy Cat, or Carbon Cat), the first cloned cat.
  • Dagwood, Ping pong playing cat in newsreel clip of 4.24 episode of M*A*S*H (TV series).
  • Dalton the Wonder Cat, author of My Litter Box Was Dirty..., television host.[1]
  • Dewey Readmore Books, the highly gregarious long-haired orange tabby cat of the Spencer Public Library (Spencer, Iowa), c. November 18, 1987-November 29, 2006, age 19. Library mascot January 18, 1988-November 29, 2006.
  • Dick Marino, MTM Enterprises's diminutive version of the MGM lion.[1]
  • "Don Piano", an unidentified long-haired house cat so-nicknamed by internet fans that have viewed a video clip on the website YouTube of the cat's appearance on ABC's America's Funniest Videos. The clip, multiple versions of which have been viewed on YouTube and other sites such as Google Video a total of over 1,000,000 times, depicts the cat making vocal sounds that are interpreted by subtitles to be a song or a poem, thought to be entitled "Oh Long Johnson".[3]
  • Don Pierrot de Navarre, father and pen-stealer from Gautier's Ménagerie intime.[1]
  • Emily American cat who, after being lost, was found to have gone to France.[4]
  • Enjoras, black kitten of white parents from Gautier's Ménagerie intime.[5]
  • Eponine, cat with table manners like "one would like to see in many children" from Gautier's Ménagerie intime.[5]
  • Faith, London cat that took up residence in St Faith & St Augustine's church (by St Paul's Cathedral) in wartime, and received a PDSA Silver Medal for her bravery in caring for her kitten when the church was bombed.[6]
  • Feathers, Carl van Vechten's cat, the subject of the dedication to and the inspiration for the book The Tiger in the House.[5]
  • Foss - Inspiration of the cat from "The Owl & the Pussycat" and of several of owner Edward Lear, who survived the cat by only two months.[5]
  • Fred the Undercover Kitty, a cat famous for assisting the NYPD and Brooklyn District Attorney's Office in 2006.
  • Gavroche, from Gautier's Ménagerie intime.[5]
  • Geoffrey, the cat of schizophrenic English poet Christopher "Kit" Smart, celebrated in the For I Will Consider my Cat Geoffrey section of the poem Jubilate Agno (written 1758-1763).
  • Grampa, oldest domestic cat ever recorded, born in Austin, Texas, in 1964, died in 1998.[5]
  • Hamlet, considered by Guinness to be "the world's most travelled cat." He flew approximately 600,000 kilometers because he managed to get stuck in a Canadian airplane for seven weeks.[2]
  • Hamlet, long-time mascot of the Algonquin Hotel and title character of the book Algonquin Cat.[5]
  • Harry, cat who replaced Lucky in the role of Morris the Cat.[5]
  • Hellcat, like Brownie, a cat of Dr. William Grier left $415,000.00 in the doctor's estate.[5]
  • Henrietta, the now-deceased cat of New York Times foreign correspondent Christopher S. Wren, made famous by the book The Cat Who Covered the World (ISBN 0-684-87100-9 in one printing).
  • Himmy, a neutered tabby who weighed 46 pounds, recorded in The Guinness Book of World Records.[5]
  • Hodge, Dr. Samuel Johnson's favourite cat, famously recorded in James Boswell's Life of Johnson, as shedding light on his owner's character.
  • Humphrey, a cat who took up residence at 10 Downing Street in during John Major's tenure as Prime Minister, and was banished when Tony Blair came to power - named for the character of "Sir Humphrey Appleby" in Yes Minister.
  • Inga, member of the crew at Mt. Washington Observatory in New Hampshire until 1993, subject of magazine articles.[5]
  • Jess, the black and white cat belonging to Postman Pat.
  • Jones/Jonesy, the name of Ripley's cat from the Alien and Aliens movies.
  • Kallibunker, with his mother Serena, one of the two founders of the Cornish Rex breed.[5]
  • Karoun, whom Jean Cocteau dedicated Drôle de Ménage to and described as "the king of cats".[5]
  • Kaspar, wooden cat used at the Savoy Hotel in London to round out unlucky parties of thirteen.[5]
  • Kiki-la-Doucette, Angora cat of Colette, fictionalized in Sept Dialogues de Bêtes.[5]
  • Kinlee, founding father of the Devon Rex breed.[5]
  • Lewis, a cat who became infamous after being placed under house arrest.
  • Lily, Dr. Johnson's second favourite cat, after Hodge. (q.v.)
  • Little Nicky, first cloned animal for commercial reasons.
  • Little Tyke, subject of Georges H. Westbrau's book Little Tyke: The True Story of a Gentle Vegetarian Lioness.[7]
  • Liz Lemon, of Bushwick, Brooklyn. Jumps off of walls.
  • Macavity, busdrivers' nickname of a British cat, white with different-coloured eyes, known for regularly catching the local bus by himself.[8]
  • Madame Théophile, cat of Gautier who liked to steal food off his fork.[9]
  • Midnight, a cat belonging to Bernice and Roy Rodgers. He saved the life of their daughter, Stacey, by crying into her baby monitor when she had a viral infection in her lungs, and was thus unable to cry in pain.
  • Moortje, cat of Anne Frank's family who was left with neighbors when they fled the attic.[9]
  • Morris the Cat, one of Burt Reynolds' most beloved movie co-stars, this finicky Commercial Mascot charmed his way into America's hearts with his calm demeanor and orange-striped style.[9]
  • Morris II, successor of Morris, ran for president in 1988.[9]
  • Mouschi, pet of friends of Anne Frank's family, came to live with them in the attic.[9]
  • Mrs. Chippy, cat on the Ernest Shackleton expedition.
  • Mrs. Poodles, first ever Siamese cat shown at an English cat show, in 1871.[9]
  • Munchkinlane's Maggie Mae, a munchkin cat who has appeared in several United States national media outlets.[9]
  • Nedjem, now regarded as the "first cat known to have had a name."[9]
  • Nin, cat who replaced at Mount Washington Observatory, named for Anaïs Nin or short for "nincompoop".[9]
  • Norton the cat, subject of three nonfiction books by author Peter Gethers.[9]
  • Nuts, cat who was documented to follow multistep directions and spontaneously engage in multistep tasks.[9]
  • Orangey, cat featured in Breakfast at Tiffany's and other movies.
  • Oscar the hospice cat, written up in the New England Journal of Medicine for his uncanny ability to predict which patients will die by curling up to sleep with them hours before their death. To date he has been right 25 times.[10]
  • Pangur Bán, the cat who inspired an otherwise unknown 8th (or 9th) century Irish monk to write a poem cataloguing their similarities.
  • Panther the Cat, cat known from the show Early Edition.
  • Patsy, cat photographed with Charles Lindbergh in the cockpit of the Spirit of St. Louis just prior to Lindbergh's transatlantic flight.[9]
  • Peake, Chessie's mate, the character is based upon an actual railroad stray.[9]
  • Peter, the Lord's cat, the only animal to have an obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.[11]
  • Petronius the Arbiter, aka "Pete", the cat in Robert Heinlein's The Door into Summer.
  • Phoebe Boyle, Famous cat on Bebo
  • Piewacket, the cat in the movie Bell, Book, and Candle.
  • Poppa, 2nd heaviest cat ever, weighed in at 44.5 pounds at eleven years of age.[9]
  • Port Phillip Cat, a large cat that inhabits the waters of the Port Phillip Bay (Melbourne, Australia) and whose favourite food is a Lemon Chicken Parma.
  • Puss, cat that held the record for longest life, 36 years, until the lack of documentation caused the title to pass to Ma.[9]
  • Rama, a siamese cat owned by students at Duke University, was actually at one point a PhD candidate in philosophy.
  • Red, a cat who recently became a millionaire.[12]
  • Room 8, an ageless tomcat who would disappear during the summer and return at the start of the school year in September, to an elementary school near Elysian Park in Los Angeles, for years, to the room of the school he was named for. (Ref. Los Angeles Times)
  • Rumpler with Amber above, one of the two cats, with Amber, who played the title role in The Cat from Outer Space,[9]
  • Rutterkin, black cat alleged to help its owner Joan Flower magically kills the sons and render the wife of the Earl of Rutland infertile in the 1600s.[9]
  • Scarlett the cat who in 1996 saved her kittens one by one from a fire in Brooklyn NY, suffering horrible burns in the process. Named Scarlett by the fireman who rescued her. She became a famous example of the power of a mother's love.[13][14]
  • Seraphita, pure white cat who loved perfume, mother of three of Gautier's cats with Don Pierrot.[14]
  • SH III, Chinchilla Persian cat who appeared in Fancy Feast advertisements and the movies The Jerk and Scrooged.[14]
  • Simon, celebrated ship's cat of HMS 'Amethyst', the only cat to have won the PDSA's Dickin Medal, for his rat-catching and morale-boosting activities during the Yangtse Incident in 1949.
  • Sinh, founding father of the Birman breed. Legend says he was the pet of the High Priest Mun-Ha, and absorbed his soul when Mun-Ha was killed.[14]
  • Sir Isaac Newton's cat, whose incessant desire to be let in or out allegedly drove him to devise the cat flap.
  • Smokey, wild bobcat trapped and given to Calvin Coolidge as a gift.[7]
  • Sneaky Pie Brown, co-author of Mrs. Murphy mystery series with Rita Mae Brown.[1]
  • Snowball, the polydactyl cat of Ernest Hemingway.
  • Snowy, who replaced Arthur in the advertisements and learned the same trick.[14]
  • Spot, Data's cat in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
  • Sugar, a cat who followed his human family 1,500 miles after they left him behind when they moved.[14]
  • A cat who wandered on stage during the premiere of Rossini's The Barber of Seville, sending the audience into gales of laughter.
  • Tama, a calico cat who is the station master at Kinokawa, Wakayama railway station, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
  • Tarawood Antigone, a brown Burmese who holds the record for most kittens in one litter with nineteen.[14]
  • Tibbles, singlehandedly wiped out the Stephens Island Wren.
  • T.K., the feline companion of Tondayelo, an orangutan in a Florida zoo.
  • Tiger, a long-haired Persian mixed breed who once held the record for heaviest cat at 43 pounds.[14]
  • Tiki, cat who appeared in the movie Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey and the television series Caroline in the City.[14]
  • Tinker Toy, a male blue point Himalayan who held the record through at least 1997 as smallest domestic cat known, at 2.75 inches tall and 7.5 long.[14]
  • Tommy, the cat the family of Anne Frank found when they moved into the attic in 1942.[14]
  • Tonto, who played one of the title characters in the movie Harry and Tonto.[14]
  • Toonces, a fictional sketch character from the NBC television series Saturday Night Live.[14]
  • Towser, cat that held the record for most mice killed (over 28,000) through at least 1997.[14]
  • Trim, was the first cat to circumnavigate Australia. Belonged to Matthew Flinders.
  • Tullia, cat appeared in the 1969 movie Eye of the Cat.[14]
  • Tyler, played Kitty Kitty, the cat in the movie The War of the Roses.[14]
  • The Unsinkable Sam, the most famous mascot of the British Royal Navy, was in turn the ship's cat of the Bismarck, HMS Cossack, and HMS Ark Royal and survived the torpedoeing of all three ships before being retired to a home on dry land.[14]
  • Whitey, played Eve's cat in the movie Stage Door.[14]
  • Willow, first pet on the television program Blue Peter to be "fixed."[14]
  • Wimauma Masterpiece of Chalsu blue Persian male selected as Cats Magazine's first "Cat of the Year".[14]
  • Winnie awakens a New Castle, Indiana family April 2007 at 1 a.m. after detecting carbon monoxide in their home, saving the family's lives.[2]

Pets of famous people

Famous pets of United States Presidents and their families

See also: List of United States Presidential pets

Famous pets of other famous people

File:Astaire and Carlyle.jpg
Fred Astaire and Carlyle in 1962. Photo: John Swope, Time-Life Pictures.
  • Cake, belonging to Warren Beatty.
  • Calvin, Maltese stray belonging to Harriet Beecher Stowe; sat on her shoulders while she wrote.
  • Carlyle, Siamese given to Fred Astaire by Kim Novak, his co-star in The Notorious Landlady (1962). Astaire named the cat after Novak's character in that film. The cat was photographed with Astaire by John Swope for Time Life Pictures in 1962. Carlyle went on to appear with Astaire in an episode of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre entitled Think Pretty which aired on October 2, 1964.
  • Caruso, belonging to Roberta Flack.
  • Cat, first of three owned by Winston Churchill. Others were; Nelson a black cat that sat in a chair next to Churchill in both the Cabinet & dining rooms (named after Lord Nelson but wasn't nearly as brave) and afterwards Jock. Jock was a ginger kitten, Churchill called this cat his special assistant and mentioned Jock in his will. Blackie, Bob (black & white cat), Margate (black stray) and Mr. Cat also were his or his family's.
  • Catarina, belonging to Edgar Allan Poe. Poe took her everywhere, and she frequently sat on his shoulder as he wrote; she inspired The Black Cat.
  • Chanoine Anogora belonging to Victor Hugo; originally called Gavroche, renamed because it was so indolent.
  • Charles, belonging to Michael Joseph.
  • Charo, belonging to Yoko Ono.
  • Cheddar, belonging to Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper. [4]
  • Cheeses, belonging to Jay Leno.
  • Childebrand, black & tan striped cat belonging to Théophile Gautier; mentioned in Ménagerie intime.
  • Chilla and Chin; Two Ukrainian gray cats belonging to Paul Gallico.
  • Chloe, Tabby belonging to Sally Gunnell.
  • Chopin, belonging to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  • Cleopatra, belonging to Beryl Reid.
  • Cléopatre, belonging to Théophile Gautier; liked to stand on 3 legs; mentioned in Ménagerie intime.
  • Cobby, Blue Persian belonging to Thomas Hardy; given to Hardy late in life, he vanished when Hardy died in 1928.
  • Cody, belonging to Henri Sauguet; became ecstatic when it heard Debussy being played on the piano.
  • Collins, a blue-point Himalayan cat owned by Don Imus
  • Columbine, belonging to Thomas Carlyle.
  • Cookie, a stray belonging to Sir Angus Wilson; the last of many pet cats in the author's life.
  • Crushinto, or Crushy, Orange rescuee belonging to Evan Dorkin & Sarah Dyer.
  • Elvis, belonging to John Lennon.
  • Enjoras, black kitten belonging to Théophile Gautier; born to white parents Don Pierrot & Séraphita; named for character in Les Misérables; mentioned in Ménagerie Intime.
  • Eponine, black fur, green eyed cat belonging to Théophile Gautier; daughter of Don Pierrot & Séraphita; named for character in Les Misérables; mentioned in Ménagerie Intime.
  • F. Puss (a.k.a. "Mr. Feather Puss"), Yellow-eyed cat belonging to Ernest Hemingway; so trusted that the Hemingways allowed him to babysit their infant. He had 30 cats in all. Among the others are Boise, Crazy Christian, Dillinger, Ecstasy, Fats, Friendless Brother, Furhouse, etc.
  • Fatima, belonging to Horace Walpole.
  • Feathers, Persian kitten belonging to Carl Van Vechten; inspiration for The Tiger in the House.
  • Félimare, striped like a tiger, belonging to Cardinal Richelieu; one of many cats Richelieu had when he died.
  • Fellini, Maine coon belonging to Gene Shalit; rescued from a shelter in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
  • Fevel, Zero, and unknown named cats belonging to Amy Lee.[15]
  • Flower-Face, Siamese belonging to James Mason; talked about in Mason's The Cats in our Lives 1949.
  • Folly, belonging to James & Pamela Mason.
  • Foss, belonging to Edward Lear; subject of many drawings, some published in The Heraldic Blazon of Foss the Cat; inspired The Owl & the Pussycat; Lear buried Foss in his garden and died himself only two months later.
  • Foxie, belonging to Brian Aldiss.
  • Fred, belonging to R. Crumb; inspiration for the infamous Fritz.
  • Fritzi, mackerel tabby belonging to Paul Klee; depicted in Marina Algerghini's Il Gatto Cosmico di Paul Klee, 1993.
  • Fuckchop, belonging to Trent Reznor.
  • La Chatte belonging to the writer Colette. The cat's name means The (female) cat in French and the name of her cat La Chatte Dernière means the last (female) cat in the same language. Other cats of hers include Kapok, Kro, La Touteu, Mini-mini, Minionne, Muscat, One and Only, Toune, Zwerg, and others.
  • Lady Arabella, belonging to John Spencer Churchill. When Princess arrived, Arabella was elevated to the rank of "Duchess of Catalunya and Countess of Barcelona."
  • Langbourne, belonging to Jeremy Bentham; over time, Langourne's name became The Reverend Sir John Langbourne, D.D. (Doctor of Divinity).
  • Le Docteur, belonging to Alexandre Dumas, père.
  • Leo, belonging to Ruskin Spear.
  • Lilly, white kitling belonging to Samuel Johnson
  • Lipstick, the second cat of Koko the gorilla.
  • Little Teddy, rescued stray belonging to Enrico Colantoni.
  • Lord Nelson, belonging to Robert Southey; over the years, Nelson went through the ranks of Lord, Baron, Viscount, & Earl for "services performed against the Rats."
  • Louisa, belonging to William Makepeace Thackeray.
  • Lucifer, jet black cat belonging to Cardinal Richelieu; one of many cats Richelieu had when he died.
  • Luck, attributed name of King Charles I's black cat.
  • Ludovic le Cruel, belonging to Cardinal Richelieu. Savage rat-killer; one of many cats Richelieu had when he died.
  • Ludoviska, belonging to Cardinal Richelieu. Polish cat; one of many pets Richelieu had when he died.
  • Lulu, belonging to Beryl Reid; one of many.
  • Macak, belonging to Nikola Tesla; called by him "The Magnificent Macak".
  • Macramé, belonging to Brian Aldiss.
  • Madame Théophile, red & white cat belonging to Théophile Gautier; liked to steal food from author Gautier's fork; mentioned in Ménagerie intime.
  • Madame Vanity, belonging to Michel de Montaigne.
  • Madeleine, Siamese belongiong to Jean Cocteau
  • Magritte, belonging to Gloria Steinem.
  • Manny, belonging to Ruskin Spear.
  • Marcel, belonging to Jeanne Beker.
  • Marcus, Siamese belonging to James Dean; gift from Elizabeth Taylor.
  • Marilyn Miste, belonging to Whitney Houston.
  • Marmoutte Blanche, Black & white angora belonging to Pierre Loti; featured in Lives of Two Cats.
  • Marmoutte Chinoise, belonging to Pierre Loti; stowaway kitten from China featured in Lives of Two Cats.
  • Master's Cat, The, belonging to Charles Dickens. The only of Williamina's kittens Dickens kept; she would snuff his reading candle to get attention.
  • Maurice, belonging to Jean-Claude Suarès. Named for artist Suarès' wife's lover, who was "not allowed on the bed either."
  • Meatball, belonging to Jane Pauley.
  • Micette or Micetto, grayish-red cat with black stripes (tabby) belonging to Pope Leo XII; born in the Vatican, lived among the Pope's robes.
  • Mimi, belonging to Rosa Luxemburg.
  • Mimi-Paillon, Angora belonging to Cardinal Richelieu; one of many cats Richelieu had when he died in 1642.
  • Mimsy, belonging to Evan Dorkin & Sarah Dyer; formerly feral rescuee.
  • Minna Minna Mowbray, belonging to Michael Joseph; an entire chapter is dedicated to her in Cat's Company 1946.
  • Minou, belonging to George Sand; Sand ate her breakfast from the same bowl as her cat.
  • Mirza Murad Alibeg, belonging to T. S. Eliot. More often called "The Musical Box" or "Cockalorum" because its given name was too long for the size of the apartment.
  • Misha, belonging to Yoko Ono.
  • Mithras White cat belonging to Jocelyn Toynbee, (1897-1985), historian of Roman art, and dedicatee of her book, 'Animals in Roman Life and Art'.
  • Mitsou, white Perisan belonging to Marilyn Monroe.
  • Moon, belonging to Robert Wagner; gift from Moon Unit Zappa (see Dweezil above).
  • Moortje, belonging to Anne Frank; left with neighbors when her family fled to the attic.
  • Morrissey, belonging to British comedian Russell Brand.
  • Mouche, belonging to Victor Hugo; French for "fly" (as in the insect).
  • Mounard le Fougueux, belonging to Cardinal Richelieu Described as "quarrelsome, capricious, & worldly;" one of many cats Richelieu had when he died in 1642.
  • Mourka, belonging to George Balanchine and the subject of Mourka: the autobiography of a cat by Tanaquil LeClercq, Stein & Day, New York, 1964.
  • Mouschi, belonging to Anne Frank. The warehouse and office cat that came to live with the Franks in the attic; the pet of some family friends. Literally means 'pussy'.
  • Mousetrap, belonging to Van Heflin.
  • Mr. Cat, belonging to Phyllis Diller.
  • Mr. Jinx or Jinxie, belonging to Evan Dorkin & Sarah Dyer.
  • Mr. Peter Wells, belonging to H.G. Wells.
  • Muezza, belonging to Mohammed. It is said that once when Mohammed was called to prayer, he cut off the sleeve of his robe rather than disturb his sleeping pet, who was nestled upon it.
  • Murphy, belonging to Bernadette Peters.
  • Myobu No Omoto, belonging to Emperor Ichijō of Japan; "Omoto, Lady-in-Waiting" ; Ichijo once imprisoned the owner of a dog that chased his pet.
  • Mys, dark long-haired cat belonging to Paul Klee; depicted in Marina Algerghini's Il Gatto Cosmico di Paul Klee, 1993.
  • Mysouff, belonging to Alexandre Dumas, père. There was a Mysouff I & Mysouff II - Mysouff II was black & white and Dumas' favorite, even though it once ate all his exotic birds.
  • Nichols, belonging to Vivien Leigh.
  • Nemo, Seal point Siamese belonging to PM Harold Wilson (UK); used to accompany the Wilsons on holiday.
  • New, belonging to Vivien Leigh; named after "New Theater."
  • Nickie, belonging to Brian Aldiss.
  • Nigger Man, belonging to H. P. Lovecraft as a boy. Also a cat in his story "The Rats in the Walls."
  • Nightlife, belonging to Charles Mingus.
  • Noilly Prat, belonging to T. S. Eliot.
  • Norton, Scottish fold tabby belonging to Peter Gethers; memorialized in novels The Cat Who Went to Paris, A Cat Abroad & The Cat Who'll Live Forever.
  • Nuggi, long-haired cat belonging to Paul Klee; depicted in Marina Algerghini's Il Gatto Cosmico di Paul Klee, 1993.
  • Numbers One through Eight, Siamese cats belonging to Beverley Nichols; owned 7 cats all given numbers as names; "Six" was not used, Eight's original name was "Oscar."
  • Pulcinella, belonging to Domenico Scarlatti; inspired The Cat's Fugue as she liked to walk up & down his keyboards.
  • Punky, belonging to Doris Day; one of 10+ Day rescued
  • Purdoe, belonging to Samuel Butler.
  • Pyewacket, belonging to Kim Novak; starred with Novak in Bell Book and Candle.
  • Pyrame, belonging to Cardinal Richelieu. He & Thisbe were named after the mythological lovers because they slept together with paws intertwined.
  • Racan, belonging to Cardinal Richelieu. Named for the academic Racan out of whose wig he fell, as a kitten, at Richelieu's feet.
  • Rajah the Magnifi-CAT, cat belonging to the composer Alan Hovhaness.
  • Reverend Wenceslas Muff, The, black tomcat belonging to Sir Roy Strong.
  • Rhett Butler, belonging to Vanna White.
  • Rita, black cat belonging to Julia Sweeney.
  • Romeo, belonging to Peggy Guggenheim.
  • Rubis sur l'Ongle, belonging to Cardinal Richelieu. Especially fond of milk; one of many cats Richelieu had when he died in 1642.
  • Rumpel, belonging to Robert Southey. Full title was The Most Noble the Archduke Rumpelstizchen, marquis Macbum, Earle Tomemange, Baron Raticide, Waowler, and Skaratchi. Other cats of his include Madame Bianchi, Madame Catalini, Othello, Ovid, Pulcheria, Sir Thomas Dido, and The Zombie.
  • Rupi, belonging to Jethro Tull leader Ian Anderson; inspired title song of his 2004 solo album Rupi's Dance.
  • Rybolov, tabby belonging to Alexander Borodin; Russian for "fisherman."

Unnamed

Thought experiment cats

Wild cats

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Index of Famous Cats, A through D
  2. ^ a b "Cat World Records". Cat-World. Retrieved 2007-02-16.
  3. ^ "America's Funniest Home Video-Cat". YouTube. 2006-10-03. Retrieved 2007-06-18.
  4. ^ "Lost cat found in France". World News Quick Take. Taipei Times. 2005-10-29. Retrieved 2007-02-16.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Index of Famous Cats, E through L
  6. ^ Roberts, Patrick. "Faith, the London Church Cat". Famous Felines. Purr 'n' Fur. Retrieved 2007-02-16.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Index of Famous (Wild) Cats
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  15. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Index of Famous People's Cats
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