Famous Cats That Start With P
An encyclopedia of 632 famous cats from movies, television, books, comics, the internet, history, and the real pets of public figures. 297 entries currently carry full extended biographies; the rest still show the short legacy summary while we work through the expansion.
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Palmerston
Real pet 2016 · UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Chief Mouse...
Rivalled Larry at Number 10 with documented inter-cat street fights; retired in 2020 citing protest-related stress.
Pangur Ban
The cat who inspired an otherwise unknown 8th century Irish monk to write a poem cataloguing their similarities.
Pantherlily
An Exceed in the animation Fairy Tail, his head is that of a black panther's, but has a white muzzle and a scar running down across his left eye.
Pascal
Movie 1994 · Felidae (Trickompany / Senator Film)
A learned, deceptively gentle elder tom whose calm demeanor masks a far darker role in the mystery.
Pero
Comic 1969 · Puss in Boots (Toei Animation)
Brave, gallant, and theatrical; wears a plumed musketeer hat, duels with a rapier, and outwits an ogre while protecting his commoner companion Pierre.
Persian
Game 1996 · Pokémon Red and Green (Game Freak / Nintendo, J...
Cream-coloured flat-faced cat with a red forehead jewel; visual reference both Persian breed and noble-Egyptian iconography.
Peter
An extraordinarily brilliant cat in the book "The Smile of the Sphinx", although he is thought "who could never learn the simplest of tricks".
Petey
Comic 2016 · Dog Man
Scheming, lonely, and slowly redemptive; engineers absurd plots against Dog Man, cares deeply for his clone son Li'l Petey, and softens across each volume.
Petrarch's Cat
Historical · Casa del Petrarca museum, Arquà Petrarca, Venet...
Devoted, much-mourned, the subject of a posthumous Latin epitaph.
Petronius the Arbiter
The smart, loving cat of protagonist Daniel Boone Davis in the book The Door into Summer, who occasionally carries him in a carrying-bag and gives him saucer...
Pinkle Purr
Book 1927 · Pinkle Purr, Now We Are Six (A.A. Milne, 1927)
Toddling, curious, hides under the bed and watches the world from behind doorframes; not yet brave enough to leave the kitchen alone.
Pirate Cat
Comic 2001 · Achewood
Imaginative, manic, and ungrounded in chronology; speaks in fake archaic English, schemes constantly, and treats every household object as nautical contraband.
Pixel The Cat
The title character of the book Who Walks Through Walls, who has an inexplicable tendency to be wherever the narrator happens to be.
Pixie and Dixie
Tv 1958 · The Huckleberry Hound Show (Hanna-Barbera)
Comic foil duo of two grey mice locked in a perpetual cat-and-mouse cycle with the southern-drawling Mr. Jinks, who famously hated those meeces to pieces.
Plagg
Tv 2015 · Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir (ZAG An...
Lazy, sarcastic ancient cat-spirit obsessed with Camembert cheese who reluctantly transforms his teenage holder into the superhero Cat Noir.
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...
Pooli
Historical 1944 · USS Fremont (APA-44) — Pacific theatre, 1944–1945
Tortoiseshell-and-white ship's cat who, according to her keeper James Mason, slept in the engine room and refused to leave the vessel during shore liberty.
Princess Arjumand
Book 1997 · To Say Nothing of the Dog (Connie Willis)
Victorian Persian cat whose accidental rescue by a 21st-century time traveller threatens to unravel a temporal-paradox subplot involving Coventry Cathedral.
Princess Carolyn
Tv 2014 · BoJack Horseman (Netflix)
Workaholic Hollywoo agent who juggles career ambition, late-thirties romantic dissatisfaction and an eventual single-mother adoption arc across six seasons.
Princess Cheeto
Internet 2012 · Instagram @princesscheeto
Patient model, willing to sit through wig fittings, prop arrangements and Wes Anderson-style colour-blocked scenes.
Princess Monster Truck
Internet 2013 · Instagram (@princessmonstertruck, 2013–2019)
Rescued stray whose flat-faced, jaw-protruding profile combined with a backstory of hard-street survival.
Professor Meowingtons Phd
The black and white overweight cat belonging to Canadian electronic musician Deadmau5. Meowingtons has been the subject of much Deadmau5 related content such...
Proud Heart Cat
One of the Care Bear Cousins in the animation Care Bears. She has turquoise fur with a white tail tip, and her tummy symbol is a pink star with a red heart i...
Puar
Comic 1984 · Dragon Ball
Gentle, supportive, and soft-spoken; trained at the Shape-shifting Academy and serves as Yamcha's emotional anchor through the early bandit arc.
Pudge the Cat
Internet 2011 · Instagram @pudgethecat
Calm, steady, photogenic in a way that reads as resting smile rather than active expression.
Pulcinella
Historical 1739 · Domenico Scarlatti, "Essercizi per gravicembalo...
Recorded in 19th-century concert programmes as a domestic cat with a habit of stepping on her owner's keyboard at irregular hours.
Purrloin
Game 2010 · Pokemon Black and White
Sneaky, opportunistic, surprisingly affectionate once tamed; loves shiny objects.
Pusheen
Internet 2010 · Pusheen (webcomic, Claire Belton & Andrew Duff)
Round, food-loving cat whose animated GIFs popularised the sticker-cat aesthetic that defined mid-2010s social messaging.
Puss-in-Boots
A supporting character in the Shrek film series, as well as the primary protagonist of the 2011 spin-off prequel Puss in Boots.
Pussyfoot
A small kitten who stands by the bulldog Marc Anthony's side in the animation Looney Tunes.
Pyewacket
Movie 1958 · Bell, Book and Candle (Richard Quine)
Calm, alert Siamese whose presence in the witch's apartment anchors the film's supernatural premise.
About this encyclopedia
Entries cover both fictional cats (movies, books, comics, video games) and real ones (presidential pets, military mascots, internet celebrities, public-figure rescues). Extended biographies are written one at a time and fact-checked against Wikipedia and primary sources — see /methodology. Have a famous cat we should add? Tell us.