Emily, an American cat who, after being lost, was found to have gone to France.[7]
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.[8]
Fred the Undercover Kitty, a cat famous for assisting the NYPD and Brooklyn District Attorney's Office in 2006.
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 (ISBN 0-684-87100-9 in one printing).
Matilda, resident cat of the Algonquin Hotel in New York City. The Algonquin has been best known as home to American wit Dorothy Parker and her circle. 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 with deference to the actor John Barrymore and the females Matilda.[10]
Mike, (February 1909 - January 1929), who guarded the entrance to the British Museum
Milo, the fictional tabby star/cat of the movie, Milo and Otis (1986); the original Japanese film was titled Koneko Monogatari.
Oscar, a cat fitted with bionic hind legs following an accident in 2009.
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 25 times.[11]
Pangur Bán, the cat who inspired an otherwise unknown 8th (or 9th) century Irish monk to write a poem cataloguing their similarities.
Room 8, a tomcat who would disappear during the summer and return at the start of the school year in September, to an elementary school near Elysian Park in Los Angeles, for years, to the classroom he was named for. (Ref. Los Angeles Times)
Rusik, the Russian police sniffer cat on Stavropol, who died in the line of duty fighting against illegal endangered sturgeon fish traffic on 2003.
Sassy, Siamese or Himalayan, the feline star of the true-life Canadian adventure story, "Incredible Journey" (1963); later remade into "Homeward Bound: the Incredible Voyage" (1993) with Sally Field voicing the character of Sassy.
Scarlett, who in 1996 saved her kittens one by one from a fire in Brooklyn NY, 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.[14]
Shiro, Internet celebrity who balances things on the head.
SH III, a Chinchilla Persian cat who appeared in Fancy Feast advertisements and the movies The Jerk and Scrooged.
Simon, celebrated ship's cat of HMS 'Amethyst', the only cat to have won the PDSA's Dickin Medal, for his rat-catching and morale-boosting activities during the Yangtse Incident in 1949.
Socks, the White House cat. Black and white tuxedo pet cat of President Bill Clinton and his family, who moved into the White House in 1993 from the governor's mansion in Arkansas. Socks lived almost 20 years, from spring 1989 to February 2009 when he had to be euthanized after suffering cancer of the jaw.
Stewie, Mymains Stewart Gilligan (aka Stewie), belonging to Robin Hendrickson and Erik Brandsness, Reno, Nevada, a Maine Coon that was named in October 2010, the new Guinness World Record holder for world's longest cat, measuring 48 1/2 inches.
Thomasina, female tabby cat and subject of Paul Gallico's book, "Thomasina" which was then made into the movie, "The Three Lives of Thomasina" by the Walt Disney Studio (1964).
Tonto, feline co-star of the 1974 movie, "Harry and Tonto." 'Harry' was played by Art Carney; 'Tonto' was played by two cats.
The Unsinkable Sam, the most famous mascot of the British Royal Navy, was in turn the ship's cat of the Bismarck, HMS Cossack, and HMS Ark Royal and survived the torpedoeing of all three ships before being retired to a home on dry land.
Winnie, who awakened a New Castle, Indiana family in April 2007 at 1 a.m. after detecting carbon monoxide in their home, saving the family's lives.[15]
Pets of famous people
Famous pets of United States Presidents and their families
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.
Jeoffry, the visionary poet Christopher Smart's cat, who is praised in his owner's poem Jubilate Agno (A Poem from Bedlam) (Jeoffry was Smart's only companion during his confinement in an asylum in 1762-63.) The famous Jeoffry extract was set to music by Benjamin Britten.
Khouli-Khan, the cat of Thomas Anson is memorialized by the neoclassical "Cat's Monument" in the park at Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire, unless the cat in question is the first cat to circumnavigate the globe in the company of Admiral George Anson on HMS Centurion.
Minna Minna Mowbray, belonging to Michael Joseph; an entire chapter is dedicated to her in Cat's Company 1946.
Mouchi, the tabby cat who lived in the Secret Annex of Anne Frank's family; it was actually Peter VanDann's cat.
Mourka, belonging to George Balanchine and the subject of Mourka: the autobiography of a cat by Tanaquil LeClercq, Stein & Day, New York, 1964.
Norton, 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.
Sprite, belonging to Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes; she was used as inspiration for some of Hobbes' physical features and behaviors, such as his habit of pouncing on Calvin.[19]
Taffy, belonging to Christopher Morley. Thieving cat commemorated in Morley's 1929 poem In Honor of Taffy Topaz.
Ta-Miu,, the cat of Crown Prince Thutmose. After her death she was mummified and buried in a decorated sarcophagus.[20]
Timothy, a white cat belonging to Dorothy L. Sayers; mentioned in two poems: For Timothy and War Cat.