List of individual cats

List of individual cats
This is a list of real, famous cats which achieved some degree of popularity either in their own right or by association with someone famous.
Before the modern era
Nedjem or Nojem (Egyptian: nḏm "Sweet One" or "Sweetie"), 15th century BC. The cat of Puimre, second priest of Amun during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut. Depicted on a damaged relief from Puimre's tomb, Nedjem is the earliest known cat to bear an individual name.
Ta-Miu (Egyptian: tꜣ mjw "She-Cat"), 14th century BC. The cat of Crown Prince Thutmose, mummified after her death and buried in a decorated sarcophagus in Prince Thutmose's own tomb following his own early demise.
Muezza, 7th century AD. The (possibly apocryphal) cat of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Pangur Bán (Old Irish "White Pangur"; the meaning of the latter word is unclear), 8th-9th century AD. The cat of an otherwise unknown Irish monk, who wrote a poem cataloguing the similarities between the cat's character and his own.
Famous in own right
Space flight
Félicette, the only cat ever launched into space. Launched by the French Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherches de Médecine Aéronautique (CERMA) on 18 October 1963, Félicette was recovered alive after a 15-minute flight and a descent by parachute. Félicette had electrodes implanted into her brain, and the recorded neural impulses were transmitted back to Earth.
By country
Canada
Tuxedo Stan, a cat who ran for mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Czech Republic
Micka, Czech Republic's "First Cat" belonging to the President Petr Pavel
New Zealand
Mittens, a Turkish Angora cat who used to roam the streets of central Wellington, especially in Te Aro, before his relocation to Auckland
Paddles, New Zealand's "First Cat", a polydactyl cat that belonged to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Taiwan
Think Think and Ah Tsai, who belong to Tsai Ing-wen, the President of Taiwan.
Turkey
Tombili, popular street cat from Istanbul who got a statue after his death.
United Kingdom
Bob (?-2020), a London street cat made famous in books and a film
Casper (1997-2010), a cat who regularly rode the bus on its own in Plymouth and had a book written about his story.
Catmando, joint leader of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party from 1999 to 2002
Freya, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office for a brief period in 2012–2014, performing the role jointly with Larry
Gladstone, Chief Mouser of HM Treasury at Whitehall in London since 2016
Hamish McHamish (1999 – 11 September 2014), a long-haired ginger cat that was adopted by the citizens of the town of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, and has had a statue built in his honour. Something of a local feline celebrity with tourists and students, he became famous after the publication of a book titled "Hamish McHamish: Cool Cat About Town". In 2013, a bronze statue was crowd funded in his honour, unveiled in April 2014.
Humphrey, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office 1989–97, named for the character of Sir Humphrey Appleby in Yes Minister.
Larry, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office since February 2011; has served under five Prime Ministers, and two monarchs
Oscar, a cat in Jersey famous for 'bionic' hind limbs designed by vet Noel Fitzpatrick
Palmerston, Chief Mouser of Foreign & Commonwealth Office since April 2016
Peta, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office beginning in 1964; serving under three Prime Ministers
Peter, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office 1929–1946; serving under five prime ministers, and three monarchs.
Simon, ship's cat on HMS Amethyst in 1949, during the Yangtze Incident.
Sybil, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office for a brief period in 2007 to 2009.
Wilberforce, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office under four British Prime Ministers.
United States
Browser, Texas library cat
Hank the Cat, a Maine Coon that ran for Senate in the commonwealth of Virginia in the 2012 US elections. He finished in third place behind winner Democrat Tim Kaine.
Jorts, office pet cat, organised labour mascot.
India "Willie" Bush, US President George W. Bush's cat, named for Rubén Sierra "El Indio".
Mayor Stubbs, a cat who was honorary mayor of the town of Talkeetna, Alaska, from 1997 until his death in 2017
Misty Malarky Ying Yang, a Siamese belonging to Amy Carter and former pet of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
Puffins, US President Woodrow Wilson's cat.
Shan, a Siamese cat who belonged to US President Gerald Ford's daughter, Susan.
Socks Clinton, a stray cat adopted by the family of President Bill Clinton, named by his daughter Chelsea.
Tabby and Dixie, Abraham Lincoln's cats. Lincoln once remarked that Dixie "is smarter than my whole cabinet."
Tiger and Blacky, US President Calvin Coolidge's cats when he and his family lived in the White House. Coolidge was known for hiding the cats about the house, prior to and during his presidency, leaving his wife, Grace Coolidge, to find and rescue them.
Willow Biden, US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden's cat.
On the Internet
Big Floppa, a caracal from Russia (real name Gregory or Gosha for short) who gained popularity as an internet meme after being posted by his owner on Instagram.
Grumpy Cat (US, real name Tardar Sauce), an Internet celebrity known for her grumpy facial expression; died in 2019.
Henri, le Chat Noir, an internet film noir "existentialist" cat.
Jorts and Jean, cats in a viral 2021 Reddit post who became organized labor advocates on Twitter.
Lil Bub (US), star of Lil Bub & Friendz
Longcat (Japan, real name Shiroi), who became the subject of an Internet meme due to her length
Maru (Japan), internet celebrity famous for his love of boxes.
Messi, a pet cougar who became popular on Instagram and YouTube in 2018
Smudge (Canada), also known as "Table Cat", who became part of the woman yelling at a cat Internet meme in 2019. The meme consisted of a screencap of a woman pointing angrily from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills paired with a picture of Smudge at a dining table, seemingly looking confused.
Sockington (US), a cat famous for his posts on Twitter.
Stepan, a Ukrainian cat with more than one and a half million followers on Twitter and Instagram.
Tara (US), a family cat from Bakersfield, California, who saved a four-year-old boy from a dog attack in 2014, and became a "viral Internet sensation" when household surveillance footage was published.
Tater Tot, a disabled orange kitten with "several malformations" including a cleft palate and "completely curly" legs. Became famous in 2023, for his mismatched splints and grumpy expression, Tater Tot died suddenly only weeks after making headlines for being a "tiny inspiration".
Zoe the Cat, PhD, a cat accredited by the American Psychotherapy Association, as part of a commentary about the state of accreditation within the industry by Dr. Steve Eichel.
In film and television
Morris the Cat, the advertising mascot for 9Lives brand cat food.
Orangey, a cat featured in Breakfast at Tiffany's and other movies.
Palmer the Cat, acts the part of Leo Kohlmeyer in the movie The Richest Cat in the World.
Tsim Tung Brother Cream, was a cat who lived in a convenience store in Hong Kong. He has appeared in a book, and in advertising and on TV programs.
Crookshanks, who was Hermione Granger's cat in the Harry Potter series. He also appears in the books.
In literature
Cleo (1982 - c2006), a black cat owned by author Helen Brown and her son Sam. Cleo featured in Brown’s best selling novel Cleo.
Dewey Readmore Books, 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
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.
Hodge, Dr. Samuel Johnson's favourite cat, famously recorded in James Boswell's Life of Johnson, as shedding light on his owner's character.
Jeoffry, the visionary poet Christopher Smart's cat, who is praised as "surpassing in beauty" in his owner's poem "Jubilate Agno". (Jeoffry was Smart's only companion during his confinement in an asylum in 1762–63.) The Jeoffry extract is set as a treble solo in the festival cantata, Rejoice in the Lamb Op 30, by Benjamin Britten.
Tao, male seal-point Siamese; inspiration for a main character in the 1961 novel, The Incredible Journey.
World record holders
Arcturus, the tallest cat (20.1 inches).
Colonel Meow, a Himalayan-Persian mix who became famous on social media websites for his extremely long fur and scowling face. As of 2014, he holds the Guinness world record for longest hair on a cat (nine inches). Died 2014.
Creme Puff, the world's oldest cat (1967–2005). Owned by Jake Perry.
Cygnus, the cat with the longest tail (17.5 inches).
Himmy from Cairns, Australia the fattest cat on record who weighed 21.3 kg (46.8 lbs) at his death in 1986.
Meow, once the world's heaviest cat at .
Nala Cat, a slightly cross-eyed Siamese-tabby mix. With 4.3 million followers on Instagram and her own brand of cat food, her value was estimated to be $100 million in 2022, making her the richest cat in the world at that time.
Prince Chunk, a shorthair cat alleged to weigh forty-four pounds (two pounds short of the world record).
Smokey, the holder of the Guinness World Record for "Loudest purr by a domestic cat".
Stewie, Guinness World Record holder for world's longest domestic cat from August 2010 until his death 4 February 2013.
Tiffany Two, the oldest living feline, aged 27 years, per Guinness World Records.
Towser "The Mouser" (1963–1987) of Glenturret Distillery in Crieff, Scotland, holds the Guinness World Record for the most mice caught (28,899).
On ships
Mrs Chippy of Endurance, cat on the Ernest Shackleton expedition.
Nansen of , the ship's cat on board during the Belgian Antarctic Expedition 1897–99.
Simon, celebrated ship's cat of HMS Amethyst. In addition to being presented with multiple medals, he was the only cat to have won the PDSA's Dickin Medal, for his rat-catching and morale-boosting activities during the Yangtze Incident in 1949. He also received the rank of "Able Seacat".
Trim of HMS Reliance, and HMS Investigator, the first cat to circumnavigate Australia. Companion of Matthew Flinders.
Unsinkable Sam of the and . All three ships were torpedoed, but Sam survived each sinking and retired to a home on dry land. The most famous mascot of the British Royal Navy.
Railways
Tama, a calico cat who was the station master at Kinokawa, Wakayama railway station, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan from 2007 to 2015.
Mascots
Matilda, resident cat of the Algonquin Hotel in New York City. The Algonquin was for many years home to the Algonquin Round Table, consisting of such American wits as Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woolcott, and Harpo Marx. 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 (in deference to the actor John Barrymore), and the females Matilda.
Şero, the political mascot of the Turkish Republican People's Party (CHP) who resides in the party's headquarters in Ankara.
Smudge, "employed" for many years at the People's Palace, Glasgow, and a trade union member as a result.
Other
Beerbohm, a cat that resided at the Gielgud Theatre in London.
Blackie the Talking Cat, a "talking" cat who was exhibited (for donations) by an unemployed couple on the streets of Augusta, Georgia. Blackie became the subject of a court case, Miles v. City Council of Augusta.
Blue, a Siamese cat taken "hostage" in Gresham, Oregon, in a grocery store in the United States in 1994.
Browser, a Texas library cat.
CC (Copy Cat, or Carbon Cat), the first cloned cat.
Crimean Tom, a cat that helped British Army troops find food after the Siege of Sevastopol
Dusty the Klepto Kitty (US), notorious for being an expert night cat burglar.
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.
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.
Lewis, a cat who became infamous after being placed under house arrest.
Little Nicky, the first animal cloned for commercial reasons.
Mike (1908 – January 1929), a cat who guarded the entrance to the British Museum.
Mittens (~2009–present), a ginger Turkish Angora who wanders Wellington, New Zealand, and has a Facebook fanbase who regularly posts photos of him climbing into rental cars, entering businesses, and napping in unusual places.
Nora, a gray tabby cat who apparently amuses herself by playing the piano.
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 100+ times.
Peter, the Lord's cat, the only animal to have an obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
Red, a cat who became a millionaire in 2005.
Room 8, a tomcat who appeared at Elysian Heights Elementary School in Echo Park, California, at the start of the school year in 1952, returning every day thereafter, before disappearing for the summer, only to return the following September. This behavior continued into the mid-1960s. (Ref. Los Angeles Times)
Rusik, the Russian police sniffer cat in Stavropol, who died in the line of duty fighting against illegal endangered sturgeon fish traffic in 2003.
Scarlett, who in 1996 saved her kittens one by one from a fire in Brooklyn, New York, 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.
Tibs the Great (November 1950 – December 1964) was the British Post Office's "number one cat" and kept the post office headquarters completely mouse-free during his 14 years of service.
Tiddles, tabby resident of the Ladies' toilet at Paddington Station, London. Thousands of passengers met her and their donations fed her.
Tobermory Cat, a cat living in Tobermory, made famous by Angus Stewart.
Other pets of famous people
Bimbo, the cat belonging to Makarios III during his British-imposed time in exile in the Seychelles.
Catarina, Edgar Allan Poe's pet cat and the inspiration for his story "The Black Cat".
Choupette, the pet and muse of designer Karl Lagerfeld.
Delilah, belonging to the Queen frontman Freddie Mercury; Mercury paid tribute to Delilah, a female tortoiseshell cat, on the Queen album, Innuendo.
F.D.C. Willard, the pen name of Chester, the cat of Jack H. Hetherington, who listed the cat as co-author of several physics papers from 1975 to 1980.
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
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
Mademoiselle Fifi, (aka Paree) the beloved pet cat of aviator John Moisant. Fifi often accompanied Moisant on his flights, and on 23 August 1910 Mademoiselle Fifi became the first cat to fly across the English Channel during the first aeroplane flight from London-to-Paris. Moisant was killed at New Orleans in December 1910, and a famous photo was published of Fifi attending Moisant's funeral, draped in mourning cover.
Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson, and Benjamin Button, Scottish Folds and a Ragdoll belonging to Taylor Swift. Olivia Benson's worth was estimated to be $97 million in 2023, making her the third-richest pet in the world.
Michi, also known as the Embassy Cat, Julian Assange's cat that lived with him in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London until Assange's arrest.
Nigger Man, the cat belonging to relatives of H. P. Lovecraft, of whom he was very fond of and featured in his work. Often cited in discussions of Lovecraft's controversial racial attitudes.
Ollie, the beloved Siamese cat of Ricky Gervais and Jane Fallon. Ollie was presented to Gervais by Jonathan Ross during the Friday Night with Jonathan Ross show on 14 November 2003.
Shorty Blackwell, a cat that belonged to Micky Dolenz of The Monkees, and was the subject of a song written from the cat's point of view, called "Shorty Blackwell".
Snacks, belonging to Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast. Snacks was featured on the cover of the band's debut album Crazy for You, and Snacks and Cosentino were featured together in a PETA ad campaign.
Snowball, the most famous of Ernest Hemingway's cats, who was polydactyl and lived with Hemingway at his house in Key West.
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.
See also
Acoustic Kitty
Cats and the Internet
Dickin Medal, recipients includes only one cat
List of animals awarded human credentials
List of cat breeds
List of fictional cats
List of individual dogs
List of oldest cats
List of wealthiest animals
References
Lists of individual animals