List of individual cats

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This is a list of individual cats who have achieved some degree of popularity or notability.

Before the modern era

  • Nedjem or Nojem (Egyptian: nḏm "Sweet One" or "Sweetie"), 15th century BCE. 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Ta-Miu (Egyptian: tꜣ mjw "She-Cat"), 14th century BCE. 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Muezza, 7th century CE. 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 CE. The cat of an otherwise unknown Irish monk, who wrote a poem cataloguing the similarities between the cat's character and his own.
  • Polleke (died ca. 1440–1460) is a 15th-century mummified cat that was discovered in 1906 inside the walls of the Grote Kerk in Breda, Netherlands. In 2025, the cat was officially named Polleke and returned to public display in the church.<ref name="nos">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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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.<ref>Animals in space</ref>

By country

Canada

  • Tuxedo Stan, a cat who ran for mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Czech Republic

Ecuador

  • 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Estonia

  • August, a local celebrity receiving pets from and taking photos with locals and tourists living on the streets of Kalamaja.Template:Citation needed

Indonesia

Jersey

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Mexico

  • Balam (11 November 2015 ~ 8 September 2024), an Oriental short hair tabby who grew to fame on Instagram for his discussions with his owner Phaedra Barratt. Balam's fame launched the Balam Foundation, a rescue non profit dedicated to ending animal suffering in Mexico's most impoverished communities.

New Zealand

Poland

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Sweden

  • Luffar-Lasse (Swedish: "Lasse the Vagabond"), an orange cat that gained notoriety for his daily excursions to the Överby shopping center in Trollhättan, Sweden. His return home is usually done by hitchhiking in one of the shopping center's visitor's car. He became associated with the Swedish annual charity fundraiser Musikhjälpen of which he has brought in more than 2,000,000 SEK.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Taiwan

Turkey

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  • Tombili, popular street cat from Istanbul who had a statue made of him after his death.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Russia

  • Rusik, the Russian police sniffer cat in Stavropol, who died in the line of duty fighting against illegal endangered sturgeon fish traffic in 2003.

Ukraine

United Kingdom

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United States

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  • 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.
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  • Francine, a cat living in a Lowe's store in Richmond, Virginia.
  • F. D. C. Willard, or Felis Domesticus Chester Willard, a feline physicist, co-author and author, owned by Jack H. Hetherington.
  • Fred the Undercover Kitty, a cat famous for assisting the NYPD and Brooklyn District Attorney's Office in 2006.
  • Hank the Cat, a Maine Coon who ran for Senate in the commonwealth of Virginia in the 2012 US elections. He finished in third place behind winner Democrat Tim Kaine.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • KitKat, a cat who was killed by a Waymo car in San Francisco.
  • Lewis, a cat who became infamous after being placed under house arrest.
  • Little Nicky, the first commercially cloned pet.
  • Mayor Stubbs, a cat who was honorary mayor of the town of Talkeetna, Alaska, from 1997 until his death in 2017.
  • Nora, a gray tabby cat who apparently amuses herself by playing the piano.
  • 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Pot Roast, a cat that went viral on TikTok.
  • 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)Template:Full citation needed
  • 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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On the Internet

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Grumpy Cat, who was ranked as the world's richest cat

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  • Jorts and Jean, cats in a viral 2021 Reddit post who became organized labor advocates on Twitter.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Maru (Japan), internet celebrity famous for his love of boxes.
  • 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Sockington (US), a cat famous for his posts on Twitter.
  • 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • 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".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • 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.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

In film and television

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In literature

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In music

  • Delilah, belonging to the Queen frontman Freddie Mercury; Mercury paid tribute to Delilah, a female calico cat, on the Queen album, Innuendo.

World record holders

  • 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 (1967–2005), Guinness World Records verified longest-lived cat, at just over 38 years; owned by Jake Perry of Austin, Texas<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Citation</ref>
  • Flossie, Guinness World Records verified oldest cat alive (Template:As of; born in 1995; owned by Victoria Green of Orpington, England.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Prince Chunk, a shorthair cat alleged to weigh forty-four pounds (two pounds short of the world record).
  • Stewie, Guinness World Record holder for world's longest domestic cat from August 2010 until his death on 4 February 2013.
  • Towser "The Mouser" (1963–1987) of Glenturret Distillery in Crieff, Scotland, holds the Guinness World Record for the most mice caught (28,899).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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On ships

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Railways

Mascots

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Cats of famous people

  • Bimbo, the cat belonging to archbishop Makarios III during his year in exile in the Seychelles.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Choupette, the pet and muse of designer Karl Lagerfeld.
  • 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
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  • Mademoiselle Fifi, (aka Paree) the cat of American aviator John Moisant. Fifi accompanied Moisant during the first aeroplane flight from London-to-Paris on 23 August 1910. After Moisant was killed at New Orleans in December 1910, a photo was published of Fifi attending Moisant's funeral, draped in mourning cover.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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See also

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References

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