Famous Cats
A directory of 485 famous cats from movies, television, books, comics, the internet, history, and the real pets of public figures. 41 entries have an available article. The other entries remain as directory summaries or brief reference notes. Forty-four profiles have dated source reviews, including three short reference notes. The 116 expanded biographies awaiting individual source review are withheld; their legacy directory summaries remain labelled unchecked. Withdrawn entries and consolidated duplicates are excluded from this directory.
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MungojerrieDirectory summary
Book · Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (T. S. Eliot)
Legacy summary; expanded biography awaiting source review.
A cat from the Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
MunkustrapDirectory summary
A cat from the Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
MyauDirectory summary
An intelligent, talking, cat-like creature called a Musk Cat in the game Phantasy Star.
MysouffDirectory summary
Historical · Histoire de mes bêtes by Alexandre Dumas père
Legacy summary; expanded biography awaiting source review.
Alexandre Dumas père's house cat in Paris, described in his memoir of pets, Histoire de mes bêtes.
N2Directory summary
A "talking cat" who appeared on Animal Planet's "My Pet's Gone Viral" on March 31, 2013.
Nala CatDirectory summary
Internet · Instagram (@nala_cat, 2012–present)
Legacy summary; expanded biography awaiting source review.
Siamese-tabby mix rescued from a Los Angeles shelter; named most-followed cat on Instagram by Guinness World Records in 2020.
NanaDirectory summary
Book 2012 · The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
A wry, fiercely loyal former stray who narrates his own road trip with dry wit.
NansenDirectory summary
The ship's cat on board Belgica during the Belgian Antarctic Expedition 1897–99.
NermalDirectory summary
The self-proclaimed "world's cutest kitten in the animation Garfield.
Nicole WattersonDirectory summary
A blue cat in the animation The Amazing World of Gumball, the mother of Gumball Watterson, and one of the main characters.
Nigger ManDirectory summary
A cat plays a pivotal role in the book The Rats in the Walls.
NikiDirectory summary
An Internet celebrity known for his humanlike behavior, facial expression and passion to pose for photo and video.
NitamaDirectory summary
Real pet · Kishi Station, Wakayama Electric Railway, Japan...
Legacy summary; expanded biography awaiting source review.
Calico stationmaster of Kishi Station on the Wakayama Electric Railway since 2015, succeeding the original mascot cat Tama.
Noboru WatayaDirectory summary
A cat from the book The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, later renamed Mackerel.
NoraDirectory summary
A gray tabby cat who plays the piano alongside her owner.
NortonDirectory summary
A Scottish fold tabby belonging to Peter Gethers; memorialized in novels The Cat Who Went to Paris, A Cat Abroad & The Cat Who'll Live Forever.
Nyan CatDirectory summary
Internet · Christopher Torres / "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!" m...
Legacy summary; expanded biography awaiting source review.
Animated pixellated cat with the body of a Pop-Tart, flying through space, and leaving a rainbow trail behind it.
Nyanko-senseiDirectory summary
Comic · Natsume's Book of Friends
Legacy summary; expanded biography awaiting source review.
Beckoning-cat-shaped vessel inhabited by the powerful yokai Madara, bodyguard and drinking companion to Takashi Natsume in Yuki Midorikawa's manga.
OatmealDirectory summary
Internet · Pop Cat meme / popcat.click
Legacy summary; expanded biography awaiting source review.
Real-life cat behind the Pop Cat meme; chirping reaction video from October 2020 became the source for the popcat.click clicker game in December that year.
OggyDirectory summary
A blue chubby cat in the animation Oggy and the Cockroaches who's often being harassed by a trio of cockroaches.
OIIA CatDirectory summary
Internet 2024 · TikTok / YouTube meme (OIIA Spinning Cat)
Reads as unbothered and serene even while spinning at impossible speeds, the calm eye of an absurd internet storm.
Old DeuteronomyDirectory summary
Book · Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (T. S. Eliot)
Legacy summary; expanded biography awaiting source review.
A cat from the Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
Olivia BensonDirectory summary
Real pet · Taylor Swift household
Legacy summary; expanded biography awaiting source review.
Taylor Swift's Scottish Fold cat, born approximately 2014, named after the Mariska Hargitay character on Law & Order: SVU.
OllieDirectory summary
Internet · Polite Cat meme (Know Your Meme)
Legacy summary; expanded biography awaiting source review.
Cat behind the 2018 Polite Cat reaction image; the wide-eyed close-up shot accompanied a viral fake landlord text exchange and became one of the most-reused...
OllieDirectory summary
A Siamese cat belonging to comedian Ricky Gervais and novelist Jane Fallon.
OpalescenceDirectory summary
Rarity's ill-tempered Persian cat in the animation My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
OrangeyDirectory summary
A cat from the film Breakfast at Tiffany's, also starred in Movies The Diary of Ann Frank and Rhubarb.
OrlandoDirectory summary
A cat from the book A Camping Holiday, the eponymous hero.
OscarDirectory summary
A cat fitted with bionic hind legs following an accident in 2009.
Oscar the hospice catDirectory summary
Written up in the New England Journal of Medicine for his uncanny ability to predict which patients will die by curling up to sleep with them hours before th...
OwlKitty
Real pet · OwlKitty
Lizzy, the cat featured as OwlKitty in edited film and television parody videos.
Pagan GriffinDirectory summary
A Pet Kylie Griffin cat in the animation Extreme Ghostbusters.
Palmerston
Real pet · UK Foreign Office
Battersea rescue cat who served as the Foreign Office’s Chief Mouser from 2016 and retired in 2020.
Pangur BanDirectory summary
The cat who inspired an otherwise unknown 8th century Irish monk to write a poem cataloguing their similarities.
PantherlilyDirectory summary
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.
PeekabooDirectory summary
Rose, Jimbo, and Pasquale's cat on Rose is Rose created by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady.
Penelope PussycatDirectory summary
A mute and shy black and white cat in the animation Looney Tunes.
Persian
Game · Pokémon
Pokémon number 0053; its standard form is Normal type and classified as Classy Cat.
PeteDirectory summary
Antagonist to Mickey Mouse and friends in the animation Mickey Mouse universe.
PeterDirectory summary
An extraordinarily brilliant cat in the book "The Smile of the Sphinx", although he is thought "who could never learn the simplest of tricks".
PeterDirectory summary
The Lord's cat, the only animal to have an obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
Petrarch's CatDirectory summary
Historical · Casa del Petrarca museum, Arquà Petrarca, Venet...
Legacy summary; expanded biography awaiting source review.
A cat mummy displayed at the Casa del Petrarca in Arquà Petrarca, traditionally said to have belonged to the Italian poet Francesco Petrarca.
Petronius the ArbiterDirectory summary
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...
Pixel The CatDirectory summary
The title character of the book Who Walks Through Walls, who has an inexplicable tendency to be wherever the narrator happens to be.
PixieDirectory summary
A Maine Coon belonging to well-known ailurophile Judge Richard Posner.
PlutoDirectory summary
The narrator's cat in the book The Black Cat.
Polar BearDirectory summary
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...
Prince ChunkDirectory summary
A shorthair cat alleged to weigh forty-four pounds.
Princess ArjumandDirectory summary
Book · To Say Nothing of the Dog (Connie Willis)
Legacy summary; expanded biography awaiting source review.
The beloved pet of Tocelyn 'Tossie' Mering in the 19th century in the book To Say Nothing of the Dog, and she is brought into the future to save her from dro...
Princess CheetoDirectory summary
Internet · Instagram @princesscheeto
Legacy summary; expanded biography awaiting source review.
Brooklyn tuxedo cat adopted from ASPCA in 2012 by photographer Hugo Martinez, whose elaborately staged Instagram portraits made her a recurring style-press f...
Princess Monster TruckDirectory summary
Internet · Instagram (@princessmonstertruck, 2013–2019)
Legacy summary; expanded biography awaiting source review.
Black short-Persian-mix cat with protruding lower jaw, rescued from Brooklyn streets in 2013; Instagram fame 2013-2019.
Professor Meowingtons PhdDirectory summary
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 CatDirectory summary
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...
PuffinsDirectory summary
US President Woodrow Wilson's cat
Pusheen
Comic · Pusheen
Cartoon tabby created by Claire Belton, first appearing in online comics with Andrew Duff in 2010.
Puss-in-BootsDirectory summary
A supporting character in the Shrek film series, as well as the primary protagonist of the 2011 spin-off prequel Puss in Boots.
PussyfootDirectory summary
A small kitten who stands by the bulldog Marc Anthony's side in the animation Looney Tunes.
PyewacketDirectory summary
Movie · Bell, Book and Candle (Richard Quine)
Legacy summary; expanded biography awaiting source review.
Siamese witch's familiar in the 1958 romantic comedy Bell, Book and Candle, winner of a PATSY Award for animal-actor performance.
Ralph
Book · Rotten Ralph (Jack Gantos)
Sarah’s red cat in the Rotten Ralph picture-book series by Jack Gantos.
RedDirectory summary
A cat who became a millionaire in 2005.
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). Legacy summaries still need individual source review. Unreviewed expanded biographies are withheld; short reference notes and summary-only detail pages carry noindex. The methodology explains the review scope. Have a famous cat we should add? Tell us.