Famous Cats That Start With T
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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Ta-Miu
The cat of Crown Prince Thutmose. After her death she was mummified and buried in a decorated sarcophagus.
Tabby and Dixie
Abraham Lincoln's cats. Lincoln once remarked that Dixie "is smarter than my whole cabinet."
Tabitha Twitchit
Book 1907 · The Tale of Tom Kitten (Beatrix Potter)
Tortoiseshell shopkeeper-mother trying to host a tea party with three impossible kittens to clean up first.
Tad Lazenby
Black bowtie wearing Tuxedo cat head of "M.E.O.W.S." in the film Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore.
Taffy
Belonging to Christopher Morley. Thieving cat commemorated in Morley's 1929 poem In Honor of Taffy Topaz.
Tai Lung
Movie 2008 · Kung Fu Panda (DreamWorks Animation, 2008)
Bitter, technically brilliant, consumed by entitlement after being denied the Dragon Scroll.
Tama
A calico cat who is the station master at Kinokawa, Wakayama railway station, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
Tama (Sazae-san)
Comic 1946 · Sazae-san
Quiet, watchful, and routine-bound; sleeps on the Isono family veranda, follows the toddler Tara-chan around the house, and rarely takes a starring panel.
Tao
A Siamese cat in the book The Incredible Journey who accompanies Luath, a Labrador Retriever, and Bodger, a Bull Terrier, on a 300-mile journey through the C...
Tao
Movie 1963 · The Incredible Journey (Disney) / Sheila Burnfo...
Even-tempered Siamese who serves as caretaker to the elderly bull terrier on a multi-week wilderness journey.
Tara
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 sur...
Tardar Sauce
Internet 2012 · Tabatha Bundesen (owner)
Mixed-breed kitten with feline dwarfism and an underbite, whose accidental scowl became one of the most-merchandised cat images in history.
Taters
Internet 2023 · NASA Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) /...
A playful real-life pet whose laser-chasing antics were chosen precisely because cat videos are an internet staple — a light touch on a serious engineering d...
The Cat
Movie 2009 · Coraline (Henry Selick / Neil Gaiman novella)
Black cat who speaks only in the Other World; insists in the source novella that cats don't have names.
The Kitten
A cat from the animation Simon's Cat, the Cat's flatmate who appears to be more intelligent than his older feline friend despite its young age.
The Rabbi's Cat
A cat in the titled animation which obtains the ability to speak after swallowing a parrot, and its owner who is a rabbi in 1920s Algeria.
The Unsinkable Sam
Historical 1941 · German Bismarck / Royal Navy / HMS Cossack / HM...
Black-and-white WWII ship's cat who survived the sinking of three warships in seven months and lived out his life in a sailors' home in Belfast.
Thomas O'Malley
Movie 1970 · The Aristocats (Disney)
Independent alley cat with social ease across class lines; full name Abraham de Lacey Giuseppe Casey Thomas O'Malley.
Thomasina
Book 1957 · Thomasina (Paul Gallico novel) → 1964 Disney ad...
Tabby narrator-cat whose multiple "lives" connect a bereaved daughter to a neighbouring witch-figure in a Scottish Highlands village.
Tiddles
Female tabby resident of the Ladies' toilet at Paddington Station, London. Thousands of passengers met her and their donations fed her.
Tiger and Blacky
US President Calvin Coolidge's cats when he and his family lived in the White House. Coolidge was known for hiding the cats about the house, prior to and dur...
Tigra
Comic 1974 · The Cat / Giant-Size Creatures
Sensual, fierce, and torn between human and feline instincts; serves on the Avengers and West Coast Avengers while wrestling with her cat-blood transformations.
Tigress
Movie 2008 · Kung Fu Panda (DreamWorks Animation, 2008)
Disciplined, reserved, slow to trust; carries unspoken childhood resentment toward Shifu's attention shifts.
Tim
A cat in the book Tim the Travelling Cat, who tries to make it back to its owner in Britain during the War.
Timothy
A white cat belonging to Dorothy L. Sayers; mentioned in two poems: For Timothy and War Cat.
Tobermory
A Beyond-cat of extraordinary intelligence, which is taught to talk, but knows too many personal facts about people and is all too willing to talk about them.
Tom
Historical 1865 · Letters of Florence Nightingale, Wellcome Colle...
Vocal, opinionated, allowed to walk across writing desks during morning correspondence.
Tom Cat
Tv 1940 · Tom and Jerry (William Hanna and Joseph Barbera)
Grey-blue domestic shorthair whose rivalry-and-occasional-friendship with the brown mouse Jerry generated 164 theatrical shorts and seven Academy Awards.
Tom Kitten
Book 1907 · The Tale of Tom Kitten (Beatrix Potter)
A black-and-white kitten who, alongside his sisters Moppet and Mittens, is constitutionally unable to keep clean clothes on for more than a page.
Tom Kitten
Real pet 1961 · Caroline Kennedy / John F. Kennedy White House
Grey tabby who lived briefly in the Kennedy White House before being rehomed because the President was severely allergic.
Tom Puss
Comic 1941 · Tom Poes (Marten Toonder)
White cat who is the rational counterweight to his clueless bear partner Olivier B. Bommel, in one of the most-printed Dutch comic strips of all time.
Tom Quartz
Real pet 1903 · Theodore Roosevelt White House (1903–1904)
Kitten so persistent in chasing the Roosevelt dog Jack that Roosevelt wrote his son letters describing the household chaos.
Tom Quartz
Book 1872 · Roughing It (Mark Twain, 1872)
Solemn, opinionated, scornful of pocket mining; gives miners reproachful stares when they switch from placer claims to dynamite shafts.
Tonto
Movie 1974 · Harry and Tonto (Paul Mazursky)
Long-suffering co-traveller who shares cross-country buses and motel rooms with his retired-teacher owner.
Toonces
Tv 1989 · Saturday Night Live (NBC)
Domestic shorthair who could drive a car — just not very well.
Top Cat
Tv 1961 · Top Cat (Hanna-Barbera)
Yellow-furred Manhattan alley-cat ringleader whose fast-talking, scheme-of-the-week structure was modelled directly on the Sgt. Bilko sitcom.
Topsy
Historical 1872 · Letters of Florence Nightingale, British Librar...
Gentle, kittenish, prone to nesting on unfinished manuscripts.
Toro Inoue
Game 1999 · Doko Demo Issyo (Sony / SCEI, 1999+)
Cat with the stated goal of becoming human; paired with cynical black-cat counterpart Kuro.
Toulouse
Movie 1970 · The Aristocats (Walt Disney Productions)
Bold, paint-smeared, and openly admiring of alley cats; in cat terms, the litter's troublemaker.
Towser
Real pet 1963 · Glenturret Distillery, Crieff, Scotland (1963–1...
Working mouser whose daily allowance of single malt mixed into her milk is part of the distillery's tour folklore.
Trim
Historical 1799 · HMS Reliance / HMS Investigator (Matthew Flinders)
Black ship's cat with white paws and chest, regarded by his captain as the equal of any officer aboard.
Trixie
Historical 1601 · Tradition recorded in eighteenth-century Wrioth...
Loyal, resourceful, undeterred by stone walls and bolted gates.
Tsim Tung Brother Cream
A cat who lives in a convenience store in Hong Kong. He has appeared in a book, and in advertising and on TV programs.
Tubbs
Game 2014 · Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector (Hit-Point, mobile)
Notably round freeloader cat whose appearance overshadows other cats and rewards player with gold fish currency.
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.