Tom

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Other cat names that share Tom’s English origin.

Ragdoll Cat Names

Cat names commonly associated with the Ragdoll breed, including Tom.

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Famous Cats Named Tom

7 notable cats from books, films, comics, and pop culture who share the name Tom.

• Tom One of Florence Nightingale's sixty-odd Persian cats at South Street, named after British prime ministers and statesmen of the 1860s.
• Tom Cat An anthropomorphic grey blue cat in the animation Tom and Jerry who has a love-hate relationship with Jerry Mouse.
• Tom Kitten A curious but disobedient kitten in the children's stories "The Tale of Tom Kitten" and "The Roly Poly Pudding" by Beatrix Potter.
• Tom Kitten US President John F. Kennedy's cat, and one of the 15 pets of the Kennedy family.
• Tom Puss Rational counterpart to main character Oliver Bumble.
• Tom Quartz Theodore Roosevelt's black White House kitten, named after the prospector cat in Mark Twain's 1872 Roughing It.
• Tom Quartz Quartz-mining tomcat in Chapter 61 of Mark Twain's 1872 travelogue Roughing It, owned by Calaveras County prospector Dick Baker and credited with two-year-old expertise in placer geology.

Famous People Named Tom

9 notable figures from history and culture who share the name Tom.

• Tom Clancy was an American bestselling author and historian known for his detailed storytelling.
• Tom Jones was a famous Welsh singer.
• Tom Landry was an American football player and a coach who was known for bringing in new techniques and formations in football.
• Tom Lehrer is a singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist and mathematician from America, known for his dark humour.
• Tom Osborne is a former American football player, coach and a politician from Nebraska.
• Tom Ridge is an American politician who served as the Governor of Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2001.
• Tom Stoppard is a Czech-born British playwright and screen writer.
• Tom Waits is a singer cum actor known for his eccentric albums and songs.
• Tom Wolfe is a famous American author and journalist.

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