List of monkeys

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This list of notable monkeys includes individual monkeys who are in some way famous or notable. The list does not include notable apes, fictional monkeys, or fictional apes.

[edit] Monkey actors

Binks - (Capuchin) Played Betsy in the 1995 movie Outbreak. Also appeared in George of the Jungle and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
Govi - (Capuchin) Played Sophocles in the 1993-1994 sitcom Monkey Please, Sophocles! that aired in Azerbaijan as a satire of the political climate in the country at the time.^[1]
Katie - (White-headed Capuchin) Played Marcel in Friends and Los Angeles Angels' mascot "Rally Monkey."
Finster - Played Harvey Keitel's pet thief, Dodger, in the movie Monkey Trouble'
Crystal - Played in Hangover two and Night at the Museum.

Miss Baker, with her Certificate of Merit from the ASPCA.

Able - (Rhesus Macaque) and Baker - (Peruvian Squirrel Monkey), both female, the first monkeys sent into space to survive the experience. They were launched on 28 May 1959 in the nose cone of a Jupiter AM-18 missile as a test of NASA's launch facilities at Cape Canaveral and procedures for retrieving astronauts after splashdown. Able died a few months after the mission, but Baker lived another 25 years.^[2]
Britches - removed from his mother at birth, Britches was left alone with his eyes sewn shut as part of a study into blindness. He was rescued by the Animal Liberation Front, which publicized the condition he was found in, and the experiment was shut down.
Gordo (also known as Old Reliable) - He was launched in the US Jupiter AM-13 Rocket in 1958, but was lost after a technical failure at the end of the mission.
Hellion - (Capuchin) trained by Mary Joan Willard to assist disabled people, was the first trainee to be placed. In 1977, Hellion started assisting a quadriplegic, Robert Foster, with chores and general assistance.^{[citation needed]}
Miss Sam - (Rhesus Macaque) sent into space under the Little Joe program in 1960.^{[citation needed]}
Semos - a nine-year-old male rhesus macaque at the Oregon National Primate Research Center who supplied the skin cells from which scientists were able to successfully derive embryonic stem cells.^{[citation needed]}

Ramu, arrested and kept behind bars in India for 5 years on the charge of disturbing communal harmony. At the age of three, while under the care of a Muslim family, Ramu attacked some Hindu children. This sparked communal riots in the Jagannathpur village, ultimately leading to Ramu's arrest.
Jack, known as Jack the Signalman. This baboon was reputed to have become an expert at working the railroad signals for the Cape Government Railway.