page_title: List of cats
section_title: Pets of famous people
hierarchical_section_title: List of cats / Pets of famous people
caption_attribution_description: English: John B. Moisant and his cat Mademoiselle Fifi who made the first passenger flight across the English Channel on 23 August 1910.
context_page_description: This is a list of famous cats which achieved some degree of popularity either in their own right or by association with someone famous.
context_section_description: Baggage, a cat owned by British television presenter Gok Wan. Baggage was the inspiration for Gok's TV series Baggage, first broadcast in the UK on 21 September 2012. Has a limited following on Twitter and a fanpage on Facebook.
  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".
  Cheddar, who belongs to the former Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper.
  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
  Jeoffry, the visionary poet Christopher Smart's cat, who is praised as "surpassing in beauty" 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 Jeoffry extract is set as a treble solo in the festival cantata, Rejoice in the Lamb Op 30, 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
  Logos, the cat of Jacques 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."
  Lion, a cat who belonged to guitarist John Fahey, who later wrote a song about Lion called "Lion" in tribute.
  Macak, Nikola Tesla's cat.
   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.
  Minna Minna Mowbray, belonging to Michael Joseph; an entire chapter is dedicated to her in Cat's Company 1946.
  Morrissey, a cat belonging to actor and comedian Russell Brand.
  Mouschi, the tabby cat who lived in the Secret Annexe of Anne Frank's family; it was actually Peter van Pels (aka Peter Van Daan)'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.
  Neo, the cat of author Jeff VanderMeer.
  Nigger Man, the cat owned by H.P. Lovecraft, often cited in discussions of Lovecraft's controversial racial attitudes.
  Norton, a Scottish fold tabby belonging to Peter Gethers; memorialized in novels The Cat Who Went to Paris, A Cat Abroad, and The Cat Who'll Live Forever.
  Nothing, the cat of Jean-Paul Sartre.
  Ollie, a Siamese cat that belonged to Ricky Gervais and Jane Fallon. Jonathan Ross presented Ollie to Gervais during the Friday Night with Jonathan Ross show on 14 November 2003. Ollie was named after Oliver Hardy. She had 62.8K Twitter followers at the time of her passing on 10 March 2020. By 24 March 2020, that number had reached 64.4K. Jane Fallon intends to keep the account open. Ollie’s legacy lives on through #OllieAid, a Twitter hashtag established in honor of Ollie’s 14th birthday. It provides a c
caption: John Moisant and Mademoiselle Fifi, 1910.
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