Famous Cats
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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Furrball
A greyish-blue ragged looking cat from the animation Tiny Toon Adventures, with a bandage around his tail.
Garfi
Internet 2008 · Instagram / Bored Panda — viral coverage 2014+
Persian whose breed-standard flat face and downward mouth-arc read as perpetual irritation despite a calm temperament.
Garfield
Comic 1978 · Garfield (comic strip by Jim Davis)
Lazy, sarcastic orange tabby whose entire worldview is organized around food, sleep, and contempt for Mondays.
Garnet
A pink Persian Cat from the animation Jewelpet who symbolizes love, and usually has a mature, feminine personality. She wears a red ribbon on her head and a...
General Sterling Price
Movie 1968 · True Grit (Charles Portis novel; 1969 Hathaway...
Domestic cat retained at the family home throughout Mattie's wilderness pursuit, named with explicit period-political resonance.
Ginger
A yellow tomcat in the book The Tale of Ginger and Pickles who ran a shop with his partner Pickles, a terrier.
Ginger
A talking cat of Narnia in the book The Last Battle, a four-legged member of the triumvirate who cause civil war and real terror among his country-mates. Gin...
Gladstone
Real pet 2016 · HM Treasury, Chief Mouser (2016–present)
Deliberately low-profile of the three 2016 Whitehall mousers; no Twitter, minimal photo coverage.
Glameow
Game 2006 · Pokemon Diamond and Pearl (Game Freak / Nintend...
Slender grey cat with curled spring-shaped tail and capricious mood swings driven by hunger.
Goliath
Real pet 1991 · Garden Lodge, Kensington (Freddie Mercury house...
Black Persian inside Mercury's ten-plus-cat household; outlived Mercury after his death in November 1991.
Goose
Movie 2019 · Captain Marvel (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck) / Marv...
Apparent house cat whose mouth opens onto pocket dimensions and whose loyalty to Carol Danvers proves to be the film's structural turn.
Great Rumpus Cat
A hero in the world of the book and the musical in the Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
Greebo
A foul-tempered, one-eyed grey tomcat in the book Discworld whose owner, Nanny Ogg, insists against all the evidence that he is a sweet, harmless kitten.
Griddlebone
A white fluffy Persian queen in the Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats who first appears in the poem Growltiger's Last Stand, companion to Mungojerrie.
Gumball Watterson
A blue preteen anthropomorphic cat who is the protagonist of The Amazing World of Gumball series.
Gummitch
A superkitten in the book Space-Time for Springers, as he knew very well, with an I.Q. of about 160.
Hairball
Comic 2009 · Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers (Marvel Comics)
High-energy, bouncy, and faintly chaotic, with more enthusiasm than coordination. A born livewire who treats the furniture as a trampoline.
Hamilton the Hipster Cat
Internet 2012 · Instagram (@hamilton_the_hipster_cat, 2012+)
Calm stray adopted from a feral colony with markings that read uncannily like a waxed hipster mustache.
Hamish McHamish
A long-haired ginger cat that was adopted by the citizens of the town of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland and has had a statue built in his honour.
Hamlet
Real pet 1923 · Algonquin Hotel, Manhattan — house-cat traditio...
Hotel lobby cat with run of the public floors but barred from the dining room by health-department rule.
Hank
A Maine Coon that ran for Senate in the state of Virginia in the 2012 US elections. He finished in third place behind winner Democrat Tim Kaine.
Happy
Tv 2009 · Fairy Tail (Hiro Mashima)
Small blue Exceed (a winged cat species) who serves as the partner and chaperone of the wizard Natsu Dragneel.
Harriet
Book 1988 · Catwings (Ursula K. Le Guin, 1988)
Bold, exploratory, the first sibling to attempt rural roosting; chatty in a quiet way and fiercely loyal to brothers Roger and James and sister Thelma.
Harry Cat
Friend and guide to New York City for Tucker Mouse and Chester Cricket in the novel The Cricket in Times Square.
Heathcliff
Comic 1973 · Heathcliff (George Gately comic strip)
Orange tabby alley-cat antihero whose neighbourhood feuds, dumpster raids, and mailbox attacks predate Garfield by five years.
Heed
Real pet · Guinness World Records — shortest-cat record ca...
A cat considered by Guinness Book of World Records as potentially one of the world's smallest.
Hello Kitty
Comic 1974 · Sanrio
Cheerful, polite, and famously mouthless; presented as a London-born schoolgirl who loves baking, music, and her twin sister Mimmy.
Henrietta
The now-deceased cat of New York Times foreign correspondent Christopher S. Wren, made famous by the book, The Cat Who Covered the World.
Henry's Cat
Comic 1983 · Henry's Cat
Lazy, hungry, and easily distracted; daydreams about food, follows his nose into trouble, and narrates his adventures with help from his dog friend Chris Rab...
Hijinx
Tv 2005 · Krypto the Superdog (Cartoon Network)
Sarcastic cat foil to a flying super-dog, scheming alongside Catwoman to use telekinetic powers while needling her about her ongoing rivalry with Krypto.
Himmy
The fattest cat on record who weighed 21.3 kg (46.8 lbs) at his death in 1986, from Cairns, Australia.
Hinse of Hinsefeld
Historical 1826 · Journal of Sir Walter Scott
Imperious household tyrant who bullied the Abbotsford dogs for years before meeting his end at the jaws of Scott's deerhound Nymrod.
Hodge
Dr. Samuel Johnson's favourite cat, famously recorded in James Boswell's Life of Johnson, as shedding light on his owner's character.
Honey Bee
Internet 2014 · Instagram @blindhoneybees
Trusting, hike-loving, comfortable riding on her owners' shoulders or under a harness on trail outings.
Hosico
Internet 2015 · Instagram / YouTube (@hosico_cat, 2015–present)
Round-faced golden tabby Scottish Straight whose colouring and proportions match the Garfield archetype almost exactly.
Hubble
Movie 1997 · Cats Don't Dance (Warner Bros. Feature Animation)
A washed-up former child star whose pessimism nearly derails Danny's entire arc; cynical but ultimately principled.
Huh Cat
Internet 2023 · TikTok meme (Huh Cat)
Comes across as perpetually, endearingly confused, a cat who appears to be asking a question he will never get answered.
Humphrey
Historical 1989 · 10 Downing Street (UK Prime Minister's residence)
Black-and-white stray who walked into Downing Street in 1989 and stayed for eight years across two prime ministers, departing under unresolved political cont...
Inkblot
Comic 2020 · Inkblot
Curious, silent, and dimensionally restless; wanders through worlds the Seeker built, observing without speech and dragging chaos behind in his wake.
Iriss and Abyss
Internet 2018 · Instagram @sis.twins
Composed, identically poseable, often shot in symmetric pairings facing the camera.
Jack
A cat who was lost by American Airlines baggage handlers at John F Kennedy airport before Hurricane Irene.
Jellylorum
Book 1939 · Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (T. S. Eliot)
Named after Eliot's own cat, recast in the musical as the gentle nurse-figure of the Jellicle tribe.
Jennie
A young boy named Peter is transformed into a cat after an accident, and is taken in by Jennie and taught the ways of cats in the book Jennie.
Jenny
A cat from the animation Bucky O'Hare, the attractive pilot of the Righteous Indignation, who belongs to an order of artificers.
Jeoffry
The visionary poet Christopher Smart's cat, who is praised as "surpassing in beauty" in his owner's poem Jubilate Agno (A Poem from Bedlam).
Jibanyan
Game 2013 · Yo-kai Watch (Level-5, Nintendo); video game fr...
A lazy, chocolate-bar-loving slacker who naps constantly but springs into furious action when his friends are threatened.
Jiji
Movie 1989 · Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki / Studi...
Dry, talkative companion whose ability to speak with Kiki ends at the moment her childhood does.
Joe Grey
A talking gray-and-white tomcat in the book Cat on the Edge that has solved various murders and other crimes with the help of his mate Dulcie. He has a docke...
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.