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List of individual cats

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This is a list of individual cats who have achieved some degree of popularity or notability.

Before the modern era

  • Nedjem or Nojem (Egyptian: nḏm "Sweet One" or "Sweetie"), 15th century BCE. The cat of Puimre, second priest of Amun during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut. Depicted on a damaged relief from Puimre's tomb, Nedjem is the earliest known cat to bear an individual name.[1][2][3]
  • Ta-Miu (Egyptian: tꜣ mjw "She-Cat"), 14th century BCE. The cat of Crown Prince Thutmose, mummified after her death and buried in a decorated sarcophagus in Prince Thutmose's own tomb following his own early demise.[4]
  • Muezza, 7th century CE. The (possibly apocryphal) cat of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
  • Pangur Bán (Old Irish "White Pangur"; the meaning of the latter word is unclear), 8th–9th century CE. The cat of an otherwise unknown Irish monk, who wrote a poem cataloguing the similarities between the cat's character and his own.
  • Polleke (died ca. 1440–1460) is a 15th-century mummified cat that was discovered in 1906 inside the walls of the Grote Kerk in Breda, Netherlands. In 2025, the cat was officially named Polleke and returned to public display in the church.[5]
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Famous in own right

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.[6]

By country

Canada

Czech Republic

Ecuador

Estonia

  • August, a local celebrity receiving pets from and taking photos with locals and tourists living on the streets of Kalamaja.[2]

Germany

  • Percy, a cat who currently resides as mayor of Flensburg, a small coastal town in northern Germany

Indonesia

Jersey

Mexico

  • Balam (11 November 2015 ~ 8 September 2024), an Oriental short hair tabby who grew to fame on Instagram for his discussions with his owner Phaedra Barratt. Balam's fame launched the Balam Foundation, a rescue non profit dedicated to ending animal suffering in Mexico's most impoverished communities.

New Zealand

Poland

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Gacek in Szczecin
  • 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.[15]

Sweden

  • Luffar-Lasse (Swedish: "Lasse the Vagabond"), an orange cat that gained notoriety for his daily excursions to the Öreby shopping center in Trollhättan, Sweden. His return home is usually done by hitchhiking in one of the shopping center's visitor's car. He became associated with the Swedish annual charity fundraiser Musikhjälpen of which he has brought in more than 2,000,000 SEK.[16] In 2024 he starred in the Slow television show "En helg med Luffar-Lasse"[17] and a statue in his honor was erected close to his usual whereabouts at the Öreby shopping center.[18]

Taiwan

Turkey

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Statue of Tombili in Istanbul

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.

Ukraine

United Kingdom

United States

On the Internet

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Grumpy Cat, 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.[42]
  • Jorts and Jean, cats in a viral 2021 Reddit post who became organized labor advocates on Twitter.[43][44]
  • 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[45]
  • 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.[46]
  • 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.[47]
  • 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".[48][49]
  • 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.[50]

In film and television

In literature

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[56][57]
  • Flossie, Guinness World Records verified oldest cat alive (as of January 2024); born in 1995; owned by Victoria Green of Orpington, England.[58]
  • 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.[59]
  • 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).[60]

On ships

Railways

Mascots

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Cats of famous people

  • Bimbo, the cat belonging to archbishop Makarios III during his year in exile in the Seychelles.[63]
  • Choupette, the pet and muse of designer Karl Lagerfeld.
  • F.D.C. Willard, the pen name of Chester, the cat of Jack H. Hetherington, who listed the cat as co-author of several physics papers from 1975 to 1980.
  • Foss, belonging to Edward Lear; subject of many drawings, some published in The Heraldic Blazon of Foss the Cat; inspired The Owl & the Pussycat; Lear buried Foss in his garden and died himself only two months later
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John Moisant and Mademoiselle Fifi, 1910
  • Mademoiselle Fifi, (aka Paree) the cat of American aviator John Moisant. Fifi accompanied Moisant during the first aeroplane flight from London-to-Paris on 23 August 1910. After Moisant was killed at New Orleans in December 1910, a photo was published of Fifi attending Moisant's funeral, draped in mourning cover.[64]
  • Olivia Benson, a Scottish Fold belonging to Taylor Swift.[65] Olivia Benson's worth was estimated to be $97 million in 2023, making her the third-richest pet in the world.[66]
  • Snacks, belonging to Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast. Snacks was featured on the cover of the band's debut album Crazy for You, and Snacks and Cosentino were featured together in a PETA ad campaign.[67][68]
  • Sprite, belonging to Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes; she was an inspiration for some of Hobbes' physical features and behaviors, such as his habit of pouncing on Calvin.[69]

See also

References

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