Famous Cats That Start With S
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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Sagwa
A kitten who gained her Siamese markings by accident in the book Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat. She is capable of writing in Chinese with her tail.
Saha
Book 1933 · La Chatte (Colette, 1933)
Aloof, possessive, telepathically attuned to her favoured human; carries herself with the reserved dignity Colette assigned to her real Chartreux pets.
Saint Gertrude of Nivelles
Historical 659 · Vita Sanctae Geretrudis (anonymous, c. 670)
Devout founder of the double monastery at Nivelles, in later iconography shown with mice running up her staff and a cat at her feet.
Sakamoto
Comic 2006 · Nichijou
Proud, self-serious, and easily flustered; insists on the honorific "san" after his name and gains speech only while wearing the red scarf that contains his...
Salem Saberhagen
Comic 1962 · Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Archie Comics)
Black cat who is actually a 500-year-old warlock serving a sentence in feline form for attempting to take over the world.
Salt
Real pet 1965 · John Lennon household
Curious and household-friendly, photographed in family snapshots at Kenwood.
Sam Has Eyebrows
Internet 2009 · Reddit / Bored Panda — viral 2012
White house cat carrying two natural black fur-markings above each eye that produce a permanent quizzical expression.
Sassy
Movie 1993 · Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (Disney)
Himalayan cat with the franchise's sharpest tongue, voiced by Sally Field, surviving the Sierra Nevada wilderness alongside two dogs.
Sawyer
Movie 1997 · Cats Don't Dance (Warner Bros. Feature Animation)
A jaded but secretly hopeful Hollywood secretary cat who rediscovers her ambition through Danny's arrival.
Scar
Movie 1994 · The Lion King (Walt Disney Animation, 1994)
Cynical, witty, theatrically jealous; weaponises intellect against a more powerful older brother.
Scaredy Cat
Tv 2002 · Scaredy Cat (CBeebies)
Nervous orange tabby who panics at every minor household sound and is gently coached toward bravery by a calm narrator across short three-minute episodes.
Scarface Claw
A tough cat who scares Hairy Maclary and his canine companions in the book Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy, and even scares himself.
Scarlett
Who in 1996 saved her kittens one by one from a fire in Brooklyn NY, suffering horrible burns in the process. Named Scarlett by the fireman who rescued her....
Scat Cat
Movie 1970 · The Aristocats (Walt Disney Productions)
A laid-back swing-era band leader whose number "Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat" is the film's signature sequence.
Schrödinger
Comic 1998 · Hellsing
Smug, taunting, and metaphysically indestructible; carries himself like a Hitler Youth officer while behaving like a stray kitten testing limits.
Scratch
An ordinary house cat who gains the ability summon any of his nine lives to help him out when he's in trouble in the comic strip Scratch9.
Sebastian
Comic 1963 · Josie and the Pussycats (Archie Comics)
Black-and-white tomcat band-mascot whose sardonic on-page commentary stayed silent in the 1970 animated TV adaptation but kept reappearing in print.
Selima
A Tortoiseshell tabby belonging to Horace Walpole; drowned in a goldfish bowl, inspiring Thomas Gray's poem Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a...
Senator Capitol Kitty
A resident of Capitol Park in Sacramento, CA and star of Sharon Davis's book "The Adventures of Capitol Kitty"
Sergeant Tibbs
Movie 1961 · One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Disney)
Tabby colonel's assistant whose military bearing and head-count technique save fifteen kidnapped puppies.
Sero
The political mascot of the Turkish Republican People's Party (CHP) who resides in the party's headquarters in Ankara.
Shironeko
Internet 2002 · Blog / YouTube (2006–2018)
Long-haired white cat with a famously placid temperament that allowed objects to be balanced on his head without flinching.
Si
Movie 1955 · Lady and the Tramp (Disney)
Si is the second Siamese in the duet, and structurally indistinguishable from Am — same model, same voice, opposite name.
Si and Am
Movie 1955 · Lady and the Tramp (1955), Walt Disney Productions
A sleek, scheming Siamese duo who glide through a house causing chaos and shifting the blame onto the family dog.
Simba
Movie 1994 · The Lion King (Walt Disney Animation, 1994)
Initially impulsive cub turned guilt-ridden exile, later a reluctant king who accepts responsibility.
Simon
Historical 1949 · HMS Amethyst (Yangtze incident)
Quiet shipboard ratter who continued hunting and morale-boosting while injured during the 101-day Chinese Civil War siege.
Simon's Cat
Internet 2008 · Simon Tofield (Tandem Films)
White cartoon cat whose silent food-demand gestures aimed at his off-screen owner became one of the most-viewed animal animation series on YouTube.
Simpkin
The Tailor's pet cat in the book The Tailor of Gloucester, who fetches an essential cherry-coloured silk twist, but angrily hides it after he finds the tailo...
Sissi the Red Cat
An Italian cat who achieved celebrity by correctly picking the results of the 2014 World Cup matches in Brazil.
Six Dinner Sid
Book 1990 · Six Dinner Sid (Inga Moore, 1990)
Sociable, manipulative, opportunistic; performs a distinct personality for each household and never lets the neighbours compare notes.
Skitty
Game 2002 · Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire (Game Freak / Nintend...
Pink kitten Pokémon with a documented habit of chasing its own tail and falling over from dizziness.
Slinky Malinki
The stalking and lurking adventurous cat who is a common cat during the day but becomes a thief as night falls.
Slippers
Real pet 1901 · Theodore Roosevelt White House (1901–1909)
Six-toed gray cat so unbothered by formal events that diplomats had to walk around him during procession.
Small Bob
Bob, AKA Iapetuse's skeleton cat in Tartarus. He is a dead cat, only made from bones. His image flickers, making him seem different at times.
Smoothie
Internet 2015 · Instagram @smoothiethecat
Calm, photogenic, patient with elaborate flat-lay styling sessions and frequent close-up portraits.
Smudge
Internet 2018 · Reddit / Tumblr — "Woman Yelling at a Cat" meme...
House cat in a confused photographic posture, structurally suited to a yelling-vs-cat composite that swept 2019 social media.
Smurf Cat
Internet 2023 · TikTok meme (Shailushai), from Nate Hallinan's...
A surreal, wide-eyed blue meme creature that became shorthand for absurdist internet humor.
Snagglepuss
Tv 1959 · The Yogi Bear Show (Hanna-Barbera)
Camp Shakespearean pink cougar who breaks the fourth wall with catchphrases such as Heavens to Murgatroyd and Exit, stage left, even, before fleeing trouble.
Snarf
Tv 1985 · ThunderCats (Rankin/Bass Productions)
Maternal, anxious, slightly cowardly companion who repeats his own species name as verbal punctuation and serves as comic foil to the warrior Cats.
Snoopybabe
Internet 2011 · Weibo / Instagram (2013–2017)
House cat whose breed-standard flat face and natural dark eye-markings produced a permanently startled facial expression.
Snowball
Real pet 1935 · Ernest Hemingway
Polydactyl white cat whose six-toed descendants still live by the dozen at Hemingway's Key West house, eight decades later.
Snowbell
Movie 1999 · Stuart Little (Rob Minkoff film)
Pampered white Persian who initially refuses to accept a mouse as the family's adopted son.
Snowdrop
Historical 1871 · Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (1871)
Small white kitten daughter of Dinah, washed by her mother at the opening of the book and lectured solemnly by Alice on chess-piece behaviour.
Socks
Real pet 1989 · Bill Clinton (US President 1993–2001)
Black-and-white tuxedo stray adopted by the Clinton family in Arkansas, becoming the first family pet to maintain his own White House mailing address.
Solgaleo
Game 2016 · Pokemon Sun (Game Freak / Nintendo, 3DS)
Massive white-and-blue legendary lion that opens ultra-wormholes via signature move Sunsteel Strike.
Solomon
One of Lloyd Alexander's many cats, who inspired the premise of the book Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason And Gareth.
Soto
Movie 2002 · Ice Age (Blue Sky Studios / 20th Century Fox)
A vengeance-driven Smilodon alpha hunting a human infant whose father killed half his pack.
Sour Mash
Historical 1880 · Quarry Farm, Elmira, New York — Twain household...
Twain wrote that she was a competent mouser and an indifferent companion who tolerated his daughters' picnics in the orchard.
Sox
Movie 2022 · Lightyear (Pixar, 2022)
Deadpan, hyper-logical, fiercely loyal to Buzz; processes existential information without flinching.
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.