Famous Cats That Start With R
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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Rajah
Movie 1992 · Aladdin (Walt Disney Animation, 1992)
Protective, suspicious of strangers, gentle with Jasmine; reads people quickly.
Ralph
A mischievous red cat who enjoys playing mean, practical jokes on his family in the book Rotten Ralph.
Raymond
Game 2020 · Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Self-styled office worker; addresses neighbors as "crikey" and treats his island as a startup.
Rhubarb
Movie 1951 · Rhubarb (Arthur Lubin film) / H. Allen Smith novel
Belligerent stray adopted by a tycoon, who then legally inherits the man's estate including a baseball franchise.
Ribby
A cat with a love for mouse pie in the book The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan, a good friend of the dog Duchess and cousin to Tabitha.
Riff Raff
Tv 1984 · Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats (DiC)
Hustler tomcat who masterminds garbage-can schemes for his bandmates Wordsworth, Mungo and Hector while dodging the city dogcatcher and the rival cat Cleo.
Rita
A little grey and white kitten with green eyes in the animation Animaniacs. In the her part, she sings a song when the going gets tough.
Roast Beef Kazenzakis
Comic 2001 · Achewood
Pessimistic, soft-spoken, and chronically anxious; types in lowercase, marries the duck Molly, and writes the in-strip blog "The Achewood Courant".
Room 8
A tomcat who appeared at Elysian Heights Elementary School in Echo Park, California at the start of the school year, returning every day thereafter, before d...
Rover
A recurring character of the Animal Crossing series. Although his role varies in each game, his job primarily is to set up the character's time, date, gender...
Rubbish
An overfed cat with a rectangle head in the animation Rubbish, King of the Jumble, who lives in the junk-filled attic of an old house.
Rupi
Belonging to Jethro Tull leader Ian Anderson; inspired title song of his 2004 solo album Rupi's Dance.
Rusik
The Russian police sniffer cat on Stavropol, who died in the line of duty fighting against illegal endangered sturgeon fish traffic in 2003.
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.