Space flight •
Félicette, the only cat ever launched into space. Launched by the French Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherches de Médecine Aéronautique (CERMA) on 18 October 1963, Félicette was recovered alive after a 15-minute flight and a descent by parachute. Félicette had electrodes implanted into her brain, and the recorded neural impulses were transmitted back to Earth.
By country Belgium •
Maximus Textoris Pulcher, a
Scottish Fold cat adopted by Prime Minister
Bart De Wever. An official resident of the Prime Minister's office at
Rue de la Loi 16, Maximus has a popular account on
Instagram.
Canada •
Tuxedo Stan, a cat who ran for mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Czech Republic •
Micka, Czech Republic's "First Cat" belonging to the President
Petr Pavel Ecuador •
Michi, also known as the
Embassy Cat,
Julian Assange's cat that lived with him in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London until Assange's arrest.
Indonesia •
Bobby Kertanegara, a domestic shorthaired tabby cat, known for being the pet of Indonesian President
Prabowo Subianto.
Jersey •
Oscar, a cat in
Jersey fitted with '
bionic' hind limbs designed by vet
Noel Fitzpatrick following an accident in 2009.
New Zealand •
Mittens (~2009 to present), a ginger
Turkish Angora who wandered
Wellington, New Zealand especially in
Te Aro, before his relocation to Auckland. He has a Facebook fanbase who regularly post photos of him climbing into rental cars, entering businesses, and napping in unusual places. •
Paddles, New Zealand's "First Cat", a
polydactyl cat that belonged to Prime Minister
Jacinda Ardern Poland •
Gacek, a male
domestic cat with
tuxedo fur, who over the years 2020–2023 has become a prominent tourist attraction in the city of
Szczecin, Poland, and received widespread attention from international media.
Russia •
Rusik, the Russian police sniffer cat in
Stavropol, who died in the line of duty fighting against illegal endangered sturgeon fish traffic in 2003.
Sweden •
Luffar-Lasse (
Swedish: "Lasse the Vagabond"), an orange cat that gained notoriety for his daily excursions to the Överby shopping center in Trollhättan, Sweden. His return home is usually done by hitchhiking in one of the shopping center's visitors' cars. He became associated with the Swedish annual
charity fundraiser Musikhjälpen of which he has brought in more than 2,000,000 SEK. In 2024 he starred in the
Slow television show "En helg med Luffar-Lasse" and a statue in his honor was erected close to his usual whereabouts at the Överby shopping center.
Taiwan •
Longjiaosun •
Mikan •
Think Think and Ah Tsai, who belong to
Tsai Ing-wen, the former President of
Taiwan.
Turkey in Istanbul •
Gli, a cat from
Istanbul best known for living in the
Hagia Sophia. •
Tombili, popular street cat from Istanbul who had a statue made of him after his death. •
Şerafettin who resided in the headquarters of the
Republican People's Party was a significant icon in Turkish politics before dying at the age of 20.
Ukraine •
Stepan (Ukrainian: Степан) is a striped cat from
Kharkiv, who became famous worldwide during the
COVID-19 pandemic. His Instagram page helped raise support for Ukrainian animals after the
Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Stepan was appointed as an 'ambassador' by the
Ministry of Culture and Information Policy as part of their 'Save Ukrainian Culture' campaign. In 2024, after Stepan became ill from the continuing attacks, he and his owner relocated to Germany.
United Kingdom •
Attlee, resident cat of the
Speaker of the House of Commons, named for Prime Minister
Clement Attlee •
Beerbohm, a cat that resided at the
Gielgud Theatre in London. •
Bob (?–2020), a London
street cat made famous in books and a film •
Casper (1997–2010), a cat who regularly rode the bus on his own in Plymouth and had a book written about his story. •
Catmando, joint leader of the
Official Monster Raving Loony Party from 1999 to 2002 •
Chief Mousers to the British Cabinet Office:
Freya,
Humphrey,
Larry,
Peta,
Peter,
Peter II,
Peter III,
Sybil,
Wilberforce •
Crimean Tom, a cat that helped British Army troops find food after the
Siege of Sevastopol •
Faith, a London cat that took up residence in St Faith & St Augustine's church (by St Paul's Cathedral) in wartime, and received a PDSA Silver Medal for her bravery in caring for her kitten when the church was bombed. •
Gladstone, Chief Mouser of
HM Treasury at
Whitehall in London from 2016 to 2019. •
Hamish McHamish (1999 – 11 September 2014), 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. •
Hodge, the "very fine cat" of
Samuel Johnson •
Jock, the favourite cat of
Winston Churchill in his later life. Named after
Jock Colville, who gave Churchill the cat for his 88th birthday. The
National Trust now ensures that there is always a marmalade cat called Jock at Churchill's home,
Chartwell. •
Mike (1908 – January 1929), a cat who guarded the entrance to the
British Museum. •
Nala, a cat popular with commuters, known for sitting on ticket barriers at
Stevenage railway station •
Nelson, Prime Minister Winston Churchill's cat, who resided at 10 Downing Street and elsewhere during the Blitz. Noted in Erik Larson's book
The Splendid and the Vile and elsewhere. •
Orlando, a ginger cat who outperformed professional money managers when managing investments over fiscal year 2012. Orlando selected investments by throwing his favorite toy onto a grid of numbers representing stock picks. By the end of the year, he had increased his portfolio over 10%, from £5,000 to £5,542. •
Palmerston, Chief
Mouser of the
Foreign & Commonwealth Office from 2016 to 2020 • '''
Peter, the Lord's cat'
, the only animal to have an obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack''. •
Simpkin, the traditional name of the
mouser of
Hertford College, Oxford, named after a character in the book
The Tailor of Gloucester, by
Beatrix Potter. The current incumbent, from 2017, is Simpkin IV. •
Tibs the Great (November 1950 – December 1964) was the British Post Office's "number one cat" and kept the post office headquarters completely mouse-free during his 14 years of service. •
Tiddles, tabby resident of the ladies' toilet at Paddington Station, London. Thousands of passengers met him and their donations fed him. •
Tobermory Cat, a cat living in
Tobermory, made famous by Angus Stewart. •
Unsinkable Sam, the
ship's cat that survived the sinking of the
Bismarck,
HMS Cossack and
HMS Ark Royal.
United States •
US Presidential Cats:
India "Willie" Bush (
George W. Bush),
Misty Malarky Ying Yang (
Jimmy Carter),
Puffins (
Woodrow Wilson),
Shan (
Gerald Ford's daughter,
Susan),
Socks Clinton (
Bill Clinton),
Tabby and Dixie (
Abraham Lincoln),
Tiger and Blacky (
Calvin Coolidge),
Willow (
Joe Biden) •
Blackie the Talking Cat, a "talking" cat who was exhibited (for donations) by an unemployed couple on the streets of Augusta, Georgia. Blackie became the subject of a court case,
Miles v.
City Council of Augusta. •
Blue, a Siamese cat taken hostage in
Gresham, Oregon, in a grocery store in 1994. •
Browser, Texas library cat •
Brünnhilde, a cat known for having her photos displayed by the
Library of Congress. •
CC (Copy Cat, or Carbon Cat), the first cloned cat. •
Cheeto (UC Davis Cat), a cat living on the
UC Davis campus near the physics building. •
Dusty the Klepto Kitty (US), notorious for being an expert night cat burglar. •
Francine, a cat living in a
Lowe's store in
Richmond, Virginia. •
Frank and Louie, the longest surviving
janus cat on record. •
F. D. C. Willard, or Felis Domesticus Chester Willard, a feline physicist, co-author and author, owned by Jack H. Hetherington. •
Fred the Undercover Kitty, a cat famous for assisting the NYPD and Brooklyn District Attorney's Office in 2006. •
Hank the Cat, a Maine Coon who ran for Senate in the commonwealth of Virginia in the 2012 US elections. He finished in third place behind winner Democrat
Tim Kaine. •
Jack, a cat who was lost by
American Airlines baggage handlers at
John F. Kennedy International Airport before
Hurricane Irene. He was found later but was severely dehydrated and malnourished after his 61-day ordeal and was
euthanized. •
Jorts, office pet whose persona was used by a Twitter account to support workers •
KitKat, a cat who was killed by a
Waymo car in
San Francisco. •
Lewis, a cat who became infamous after being placed under house arrest. •
Little Nicky, the first commercially cloned pet. •
Mayor Stubbs, a cat who was honorary mayor of the town of
Talkeetna, Alaska, from 1997 until his death in 2017. •
Nora, a gray tabby cat who apparently amuses herself by playing the piano. •
Oscar the hospice cat, 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 their death. To date he has been right 100+ times. •
Pot Roast, a cat that went viral on
TikTok. •
Room 8, a tomcat who appeared at Elysian Heights Elementary School in
Echo Park, California, at the start of the school year in 1952, returning every day thereafter, before disappearing for the summer, only to return the following September. This behavior continued into the mid-1960s. (Ref.
Los Angeles Times) •
Scarlett, who in 1996 saved her kittens one by one from a fire in Brooklyn, New York, suffering horrible burns in the process. Named Scarlett by the fireman who rescued her. She became a famous example of the power of a mother's love. •
Venus, an American tortoiseshell cat whose face is half black and half red tabby.
On the Internet , who was ranked as the world's richest cat •
Grumpy Cat (US, real name Tardar Sauce), an
Internet celebrity known for her grumpy
facial expression; died in 2019. •
Henri, le Chat Noir, an internet
film noir "existentialist" cat. •
Jorts and
Jean, cats in a viral 2021 Reddit post who became organized labor advocates on Twitter. •
Keyboard Cat (real name Fatso, replaced by Bento, then Skinny), whose paws are manipulated so it seems he's playing a musical keyboard. •
Lil Bub (US), star of
Lil Bub & Friendz •
Longcat (Japan, real name Shiro), who became the subject of an
Internet meme due to her length •
Maru (Japan),
internet celebrity famous for his love of boxes. •
Smudge (Canada), also known as "Table Cat", who became part of the
woman yelling at a cat Internet meme in 2019. The meme consisted of a screencap of a woman pointing angrily from
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills paired with a picture of Smudge at a dining table, seemingly looking confused. •
Sockington (US), a cat famous for his posts on
Twitter. •
Tara (US), 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 surveillance footage was published. •
Tater Tot, a disabled orange kitten with "several malformations" including a cleft palate and "completely curly" legs. Became famous in 2023, for his mismatched splints and grumpy expression, Tater Tot died suddenly only weeks after making headlines for being a "tiny inspiration". •
Zoe the Cat, PhD, a cat accredited by the American Psychotherapy Association, as part of a commentary about the state of accreditation within the industry by Dr. Steve Eichel.
In film and television •
Morris the Cat, the advertising mascot for
9Lives brand cat food. •
Orangey, animal actor which appeared in ''
Breakfast at Tiffany's'' and other movies. •
Palmer the Cat, acted the part of Leo Kohlmeyer in the 1986 film
The Richest Cat in the World. •
Tsim Tung Brother Cream, was a cat who lived in a convenience store in Hong Kong. He has appeared in a book, and in advertising and on TV programs.
In literature •
Catarina (alternatively spelled Cattarina),
Edgar Allan Poe's pet cat and the inspiration for his story "
The Black Cat". •
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. •
Hodge,
Dr. Samuel Johnson's favourite cat, famously recorded in
James Boswell's 1791
Life of Johnson, as shedding light on his owner's character. •
Homer (1997–2013), blind cat and the subject of ''Homer's Odyssey'', famous for saving his owner from a burglar. •
Jeoffry, the visionary poet
Christopher Smart's cat, who is praised as "surpassing in beauty" in his owner's poem "
Jubilate Agno". (Jeoffry was Smart's only companion during his confinement in an asylum in 1762–63.) The Jeoffry extract is set as a treble solo in the festival cantata,
Rejoice in the Lamb Op 30, by
Benjamin Britten.
In music •
Delilah, belonging to the
Queen frontman
Freddie Mercury; Mercury paid tribute to Delilah, a female calico cat, on the Queen album,
Innuendo.
World record holders •
Colonel Meow, a Himalayan-Persian mix who became famous on social media websites for his extremely long fur and scowling face. As of 2014, he holds the Guinness world record for longest hair on a cat (nine inches). Died 2014. •
Creme Puff (1967–2005),
Guinness World Records verified longest-lived cat, at just over 38 years; owned by Jake Perry of Austin, Texas •
Flossie, Guinness World Records verified oldest cat alive (; born in 1995; owned by Victoria Green of Orpington, England. •
Nala Cat, a slightly cross-eyed Siamese-tabby mix. With 4.3 million followers on Instagram and her own brand of cat food, her value was estimated to be $100 million in 2022, making her the richest cat in the world at that time. •
Prince Chunk, a shorthair cat alleged to weigh forty-four pounds (two pounds short of the world record). •
Stewie, Guinness World Record holder for world's longest domestic cat from August 2010 until his death on 4 February 2013. •
Towser "The Mouser" (1963–1987) of Glenturret Distillery in Crieff, Scotland, holds the Guinness World Record for the most mice caught (28,899).
On ships •
Mrs Chippy of
Endurance, cat on the
Ernest Shackleton expedition. •
Nansen of , the
ship's cat on board during the
Belgian Antarctic Expedition 1897–99. •
Simon, celebrated ship's cat of
HMS Amethyst. In addition to being presented with multiple medals, he was the only cat to have won the PDSA's
Dickin Medal, for his rat-catching and morale-boosting activities during the
Yangtze Incident in 1949. He also received the rank of "Able Seacat". •
Trim of
HMS Reliance, and
HMS Investigator, the first cat to circumnavigate Australia. Companion of
Matthew Flinders. •
Unsinkable Sam of the , , and . All three ships were torpedoed, but Sam survived each sinking and retired to a home on dry land. The most famous mascot of the British Royal Navy.
Railways •
Tama, a
calico cat who was the
station master at
Kinokawa, Wakayama railway station,
Wakayama Prefecture, Japan from 2007 to 2015. •
Chessie, the mascot of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Mascots •
Algonquin Hotel cats named
Hamlet and
Matilda, resident cats of the
Algonquin Hotel in
New York City. The Algonquin was for many years home to the Algonquin Round Table, consisting of such American wits as
Dorothy Parker,
Alexander Woollcott, and
Harpo Marx. There have been nine cats who have called the Algonquin their home since the 1930s, but not all have been female. All the males have been named
Hamlet (in deference to the actor
John Barrymore), and the females Matilda. •
Şero, the political
mascot of the Turkish
Republican People's Party (CHP), who resided in the party's headquarters in
Ankara until his death in September 2024. •
Smudge, "employed" for many years at the
People's Palace, Glasgow, and a trade union member as a result. ==Cats of famous people==