List of individual cats

This is a list of specific natural cats. For fictional cats refer to "List of fictional cats". For cat breeds, see List of cat breeds.

Cats famous in their own right

• Blackie, a cat that inherited 15 million British Pounds and thus became the richest cat in history.
• Bob, a ginger cat that was found injured and adopted by a London busker, James Bowen, in 2007. Bob's and Bowen's adventures together on the streets of London became the subject of a book, published in March 2012, A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man And His Cat Found Hope On The Streets.
• Brutus "The Morrisons Cat", is famous in his village of Saltney just outside Chester where he visits the Morrisons supermarket nearly every day and currently has nearly 1000 followers on his Facebook page www.facebook.com/Brutusthesaltneycat. He lives in Saltney and is owned by Claire and Adam. He was found as a stray in 2008 when he was about 8–10 months old, being kicked by some kids but was taken to the local vets where Claire worked as a Veterinary Nurse and adopted him after a few days when no one came to claim him. He was given the name Brutus after Claire and Adam both read the Emperor series of books by Conn Iggulden and decided to call him after Marcus Brutus, friend and traitor to Gaius Julius Caesar.
• Casper, (1997 - 14 January 2010) was a male Doestic cat that was famous for travelling on a No. 3 bus in Plymouth, and inspired the book, Casper the Commuting Cat.
• Catarina, Edgar Allan Poe's pet cat and the inspiration for his story The Black Cat.
• Cherry Pop,"Jovan Cherry Pop of Mystichill",(1981–1995) was a pedigree Champion Persian who became the poster cat for the Broward Country Humane Society. Money raised from Cherry Pop merchandise, events, and parties were donated to the Humane Society and other shelters, assisting in bringing attention to pet adoption for animals in need.
• Chessie, the mascot of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, and later the Chessie System, whose slogan was "sleep like a kitten."
• CC (Copy Cat, or Carbon Cat), the first cloned cat.
• Creme Puff, the world's oldest cat (1967–2005). Owned by Jake Perry.
• Dewey, the library cat from Spencer, Iowa. Born Nov 1987; abandoned at the Library in Jan 1988; died (euthanized) December 2006. Subject of a best-selling book, Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
• Emily, an American cat who, after being lost, was found to have gone to France.
• Faith, a 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.
• Fred the Undercover Kitty, a cat famous for assisting the NYPD and Brooklyn District Attorney's Office in 2006.
• 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 from Cairns, Australia the fattest cat on record who weighed 21.3kg (46.8lbs) at his death in 1986.
• 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 retired to a new address shortly after Tony Blair came to power - named for the character of Sir Humphrey Appleby in Yes Minister.
• Jack, a cat who was lost by American Airlines baggage handlers at John F Kennedy airport before Hurricane Irene. He was found later but was severely dehydrated and malnourished after his 61 day ordeal and was euthanized.
• Keyboard Cat, an internet celebrity.
• Larry, the Downing Street cat from February 2011.
• Leo Not Lion, beloved show cat, named one of the world's most pampered cats, along with Cherry Pop.
• Lewis, a cat who became infamous after being placed under house arrest.
• Little Nicky, first cloned animal for commercial reasons.
• Macavity, the busdrivers' nickname of a British cat, white with different-coloured eyes, known for regularly catching the local bus by himself.
• Maru, Internet celebrity famous for his love of boxes.
• Marzipan (c.1992), a calico cat who lives in the lobby of Astor Theatre in Melbourne, Australia. She is the theatre's unofficial mascot and can often be seen sitting on the couches, waiting for the patrons to pet her as they leave the cinema. She is also know to stroll in the cinema and watch the movies, or simply wander down the aisle and sit on parton's laps. She has her own facebook fan page.
• Matilda, resident cat of the Algonquin Hotel in New York City. The Algonquin has been best known as home to American wit Dorothy Parker and her circle. There have been nine cats who have called the Algonquin their home since the 1930s but not all have been female. All the males have been named Hamlet with deference to the actor John Barrymore and the females Matilda.
• Mike, (February 1909 - January 1929), who guarded the entrance to the British Museum
• Milo, the fictional tabby star/cat of the movie, Milo and Otis (1986); the original Japanese film was titled Koneko Monogatari.
• Mrs. Chippy, cat on the Ernest Shackleton expedition.
• Nansen, the ship's cat on board Belgica during the Belgian Antarctic Expedition 1897-99.
• Nora, a gray tabby cat who plays the piano along side her owner.
• Orangey, a cat featured in Breakfast at Tiffany's and other movies.
• Oscar, a cat fitted with bionic hind legs following an accident in 2009.
• 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.
• Pangur Bán, the cat who inspired an otherwise unknown 8th (or 9th) century Irish monk to write a poem cataloguing their similarities.
• Peter, the Lord's cat, the only animal to have an obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
• Pyewacket, perhaps the most famous literary Siamese cat, featured in "Bell, Book and Candle".
• Red, a cat who became a millionaire in 2005.
• Room 8, a 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 classroom he was named for. (Ref. Los Angeles Times)
• Rusik, the Russian police sniffer cat on Stavropol, who died in the line of duty fighting against illegal endangered sturgeon fish traffic on 2003.
• Sassy, Siamese or Himalayan, the feline star of the true-life Canadian adventure story, "Incredible Journey" (1963); later remade into "Homeward Bound: the Incredible Voyage" (1993) with Sally Field voicing the character of Sassy.
• Scarlett, 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.
• Shiro, Internet celebrity who balances things on the head.
• 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.
• Smokey, the Guinness World Records Loudest Purring Cat in the World. Smokey was recorded at purring at a level of 67.7dB when measured at a distance of 1 metre away. This is a level 14 x louder than an average cats purr. Smokey has been featured in newspapers, web sites, radio stations and by television news crews all around the world. Smokey has a book which tells her story of transformation from many times rehomed cat to International celebrity.The cat became famous after promoting a neutering campaign for the British feline charity Cats Protection with the idea of a purring competition on her local radio station. The cat has her own web site www.smokeythepurringcat.com
• Sockington, a cat famous for his posts on Twitter the microblogging site.
• Socks, (Socks Clinton-Currie). Was the official "First Cat" of the United States under U.S. President Bill Clinton.
• Stewie, Mymains Stewart Gilligan (aka Stewie), belonging to Robin Hendrickson and Erik Brandsness, Reno, Nevada, a Maine Coon that was named in October 2010, the new Guinness World Record holder for world's longest cat, measuring 481⁄2 inches.
• Stubbs, a cat who was elected mayor of the town of Talkeetna, Alaska in 1997, as a write-in candidate.
• Tabitha Catherine, famous SJIS cat from 2ch, also known as Tablecat.
• Tama, a calico cat who is the station master at Kinokawa, Wakayama railway station, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
• Thomasina, female tabby cat and subject of Paul Gallico's book, "Thomasina" which was then made into the movie, "The Three Lives of Thomasina" by the Walt Disney Studio (1964).
• Tiki, cat in 1993 film, Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey.
• Trim, the first cat to circumnavigate Australia. Belonged to Matthew Flinders.
• Tonto, feline co-star of the movie Harry and Tonto (1974). 'Harry' was played by Art Carney; 'Tonto' was played by two cats.
• 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.
• Wilberforce, Downing Street cat under four British Prime Ministers
• Willow, a cat lost from a Boulder, Colorado home, who was discovered 5 years later and 1,800 miles away in New York City. She survived owls, coyotes, criminals, and Manhattan traffic. She was reunited with her owners with the help of her microchip.
• Winnie, who awakened a New Castle, Indiana family in April 2007 at 1 a.m. after detecting carbon monoxide in their home, saving the family's lives.

Pets of famous people

Famous pets of United States Presidents and their families

• India "Willie" Bush, US President George W. Bush's cat, named for Rubén Sierra "El Indio".
• Misty Malarky Ying Yang, a Siamese belonging to Amy Carter and former pet of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
• Socks, a stray cat adopted by the family of President Bill Clinton, named by his daughter Chelsea.

See also: List of United States Presidential pets

Famous pets of other famous people and Gorillas

• All Ball, the first cat of Koko the gorilla.
• Andy, one of nine cats belonging to actress Jenna Fischer
• Bimbo, the cat belonging to Makarios III during his British-imposed time in exile in the Seychelles.
• Cheddar, who belongs to the Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper.
• Delilah, belonging to the late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury; Mercury paid tribute to Delilah, a female tortoiseshell cat, on the Queen album, Innuendo.
• Detective John Kimball, belonging to 2012 presidential candidate Nate Gingrich.
• 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.
• Jellylorum was T. S. Eliot's own cat, immortalized in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, the basis for the musical Cats.
• Jeoffry, the visionary poet Christopher Smart's cat, who is praised in his owner's poem Jubilate Agno (A Poem from Bedlam) (Jeoffry was Smart's only companion during his confinement in an asylum in 1762-63.) The famous Jeoffry extract was set to music by Benjamin Britten.
• Khouli-Khan, the cat of Thomas Anson is memorialized by the neoclassical "Cat's Monument" in the park at Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire, unless the cat in question is the first cat to circumnavigate the globe in the company of Admiral George Anson on HMS Centurion.
• Lipstick and Smokey, two cats that Koko the gorilla chose after All Ball escaped from Koko's cage and was killed by a car.
• Logos, the cat of Jaques Derrida. Mentioned in Plato's Pharmacy: "Logos, a living, animate creature, is thus also an organism that has been engendered. An organism: a differentiated body proper, with a center and extremities, joints, a head, and feet."
• Meredith,The Scottish fold belonging to Taylor Swift
• Minna Minna Mowbray, belonging to Michael Joseph; an entire chapter is dedicated to her in Cat's Company 1946.
• Mouchi, the tabby cat who lived in the Secret Annex of Anne Frank's family; it was actually Peter VanDann's cat.
• Mourka, belonging to George Balanchine and the subject of Mourka: the autobiography of a cat by Tanaquil LeClercq, Stein & Day, New York, 1964.
• Muezza, the cat of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
• Norton, a 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.
• Nothing, the cat of Jean-Paul Sartre.
• Pixie, a Maine Coon belonging to well-known ailurophile Judge Richard Posner; described by Judge Posner in the Chicago Tribune as "the best cat [he's] ever had."
• Polar Bear, the white cat adopted by writer and animal activist Cleveland Amory, and featured in The Cat Who Came for Christmas, The Cat and the Curmudgeon and The Best Cat Ever
• Professor Meowingtons Phd the black and white cat belonging to Canadian electronic musician Deadmau5 Meowingtons has been the subject of much Deadmau5 related content such as the Meowingtons Hax tour
• Rupi, belonging to Jethro Tull leader Ian Anderson; inspired title song of his 2004 solo album Rupi's Dance.
• Sadie, a Siamese belonging to James Mason; talked about in Mason's The Cats in our Lives (1949).
• Selima, a Tortoiseshell tabby belonging to Horace Walpole; drowned in a goldfish bowl, inspiring Thomas Gray's poem Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes (1748).
• Snowball, the most famous of Ernest Hemingway's cats, who was polydactyl and lived with Hemingway at his house in Key West.
• Solomon, one of Lloyd Alexander's many cats, who inspired the premise of the book Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason And Gareth.
• Sparta, also known as Mean Kitty, a cat belonging to YouTube personality Cory Williams.
• Sprite, belonging to Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes; she was used as inspiration for some of Hobbes' physical features and behaviors, such as his habit of pouncing on Calvin.
• Taffy, belonging to Christopher Morley. Thieving cat commemorated in Morley's 1929 poem In Honor of Taffy Topaz.
• Ta-Miu,, the cat of Crown Prince Thutmose. After her death she was mummified and buried in a decorated sarcophagus.
• Timothy, a white cat belonging to Dorothy L. Sayers; mentioned in two poems: For Timothy and War Cat.

See also

• List of fictional cats
• Ship's cat