List of known cats

This article deals with real cats, which have become known for their particularities and peculiarities. For fictional cats see List of Fictional Animals # Cats .

The list of well-known cats deals with those cats that have become known through particularities and peculiarities.

Legend

Surname	Name of the cat described.
race	Breed of the cat described. If the column is empty, the breed is unknown.
Lifetime	The lifetime of the cat described, or the dates of birth and death.
Remarks	Reason why the cat described became famous.
image	A picture of the described cat, if available.
swell	Sources of the given data.

list

Surname	race	Lifetime	Remarks	image	swell
Barivel	Maine Coon	2010s	Current world record holder longest domesticated cat
Beerbohm	Domestic cat	* 1974 or 1975; † March 21, 1995	Cat in London's Gielgud Theater
bob	Domestic cat	* 2006; † June 15, 2020	Street musician James Bowen found Bob in London and took him in. He published several books about living with the cat.
Buurtpoes Bledder	Domestic cat	* approx. 2011; † August 7, 2013	At the time he was a very well known male cat in Leiden
Campus Cat	Domestic cat	21st century	Campus cat of the University of Augsburg
Casper	Domestic cat	* 1997; † January 14, 2010	He received worldwide attention through bus rides .
Cat Mandu	Domestic cat	* 1995; † 2002	Elected party leader for the Official Monster Raving Loony Party .
CC	Domestic cat	* December 22, 2001	First pet cloned.
Chibi	Domestic cat	* May 12, 2000	Assistant to the station master Tama .
Chico	Domestic cat	1996-2012	Neighbor cat from Benedict XVI. and leading actor in a children's book
Choupette	Birman cat	* August 19, 2011	House cat from Karl Lagerfeld
Colonel Meow	Mix of Persian and Colourpoint	* 2011; † January 29, 2014	In its lifetime, cat with the longest fur with an entry in the Guinness Book of Records and an internet phenomenon .
Cream Puff	Domestic cat	* August 3, 1967; † August 6, 2005	oldest known cat according to the Guinness Book of Records
Crimean Tom	Domestic cat	* approx. 1847; † December 31, 1856	Helped the British Army during the Crimean War .
Dewey Readmore Books	Domestic cat	* November 1987; † November 29, 2006	Library hangover in Spencer .
Dusty the Klepto Kitty	Snowshoe	* March 20, 2006	Went on spectacular raids in San Mateo and became famous for it.
FDC Willard	Siamese	20th century	Actually Chester ; published several papers on low temperature physics .
Félicette	Domestic cat	20th century	First and only surviving cat on a space flight
Foss	Domestic cat	* approx. 1873; † 1887	House cat by Edward Lear
Frank and Louie	Ragdoll , Janus cat	* September 1999; † December 4, 2014	formerly the longest living Janus cat according to the Guinness Book of Records
Fred the Undercover Kitty	Domestic cat	* May 2005; † August 10, 2006	Fred was an "undercover agent" for the New York Police Department and helped investigate a man who posed as a veterinarian.
Freya	Domestic cat	* April 2009	Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office since 2012 .
Gladstone	Domestic cat	circa November 2014	Chief Mouser of HM Treasury since 2016
Grumpy Cat	Mix of snowshoe , ragdoll and Persian	* April 4, 2012; † May 14th, 2019	Internet phenomenon , actually tardar sauce , became popular because of her grumpy facial expression.
Hank the Cat	Maine Coon cat	* August 2001; † February 13, 2014	ran in Virginia in the 2012 United States Senate election , reaching number 3.
Hodge		18th century	The tomcat owned by Samuel Johnson , who gained public attention through a passage in his biography. In 1997 he received his own memorial in front of Johnson's former residence.
Humphrey	Domestic cat	* 1988; † March 15, 2006	Between 1989 and 1997 Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office .
India	American Shorthair	* July 13, 1990; † January 4, 2009	Cat of US President George W. Bush and his wife Laura Bush .
Jessie	Domestic cat		Walked 3000 km across Australia to her old home after moving.
Jock	Domestic cat	20th century	Winston Churchill's cat .
"Cat from Varna"	Domestic cat	21st century	Stray from Varna , Bulgaria , who turned itself green by sleeping several times in blue.
Ketzel	Domestic cat	* 1993; † July 13, 2011	Won a Paris Music Prize for a 35-second composition .
Larry	Domestic cat	* January 2007	Current Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office . Was released in 2012 and later reinstated with Freya .
Lewis	Angora cat	* 2000 or 2001	Aggressive cat placed under house arrest by a US court
Lil boy	Domestic cat	* June 2011; † December 1st, 2019	Became famous for her appearance, which she owes to several diseases.
Little Nicky	Maine Coon cat	* October 17, 2004	First commercially marketed cloned pet.
Lucretius	Domestic cat	* 1970s	Jacques Derrida tomcat
Maru	Scottish fold cat	* May 24, 2007	Cat with the most YouTube views.
Merlin	Domestic cat	* 2002 or 2003	Cat with the loudest purr according to the Guinness Book of Records
Mīko	Domestic cat	* October 3, 1998; † July 20, 2009	Mother and assistant to Tama .
Morris the Cat	Domestic cat	* 1959; † July 1978	Advertising character for the cat food company 9Lives
Mrs. Chippy	Domestic cat	† October 30, 1915	Cat on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance Expedition .
Muezza		7th century	Prophet Mohammed's cat .
Munich Mouser		20th century	Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office in the late 1930s and 1940s.
pussy			Cat Muschi lived with Ruffed Bear Mäuschen in the Berlin Zoo.
Muzie	Domestic cat	1925-1939	One of Hanno Hahn's cats in Berlin-Dahlem, about which he published a story 'based on a true incident' in the specialist journal “Our Cat” in 1939
Nansen	Domestic cat	† June 22, 1898	Cat on the Belgica expedition .
Nelson		20th century	In the 1940s under Winston Churchill Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office .
Nitama	Domestic cat	* before 2012	Tama apprentice since 2012 .
Orangey	Domestic cat		animal performer, known from Breakfast at Tiffany's
Oscar	Domestic cat	20th century	Cat on the Bismarck . Survived the sinkings of three ships.
Oscar	Domestic cat	* 2006	Cat that can predict human deaths
Oscar	Domestic cat	* 2007	first cat with bionic prostheses
Pepper the Cat	Domestic cat	* 1912; † after 1928	animal actor in various silent films
Peta		* before 1964; † 1978	Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office . Should be fired, but remained in office for fear of backlash.
Peter		* before 1929; † after 1946	First official Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office .
Peter II		† 1946	Was run over by Chief Mouser in 1946 and run over Whitehall that year .
Peter III		* before 1946; † 1964	A chief mouser . After going through an appearance in the 1958 Tonight Show from BBC became a media star, he died in 1964 of a fatty liver .
Peter the Cat	Domestic cat	* 1950; † November 5, 1964	Domestic cat in Lord's Cricket Ground
Pumpkin	Persian cat	* 2001	Starred with Crackerjack as Hermione's cat Crookshanks in the Harry Potter films .
Room 8	Domestic cat, domestic shorthair	* 1947; † August 13, 1968	School cat at the Elysian Heights Elementary School in Los Angeles
Sammy	Domestic cat	* April 8, 2001; † 21st March 2013	Unikater of the University of Konstanz
Scarlett's Magic	Savannah cat	* March 6, 2008	Formerly the largest domesticated cat in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records .
Simon	Domestic cat	* probably 1947; † November 28, 1949	Ship's cat of Amethyst . Was the only cat to be awarded the Dickin Medal after being seriously injured, recovering and subsequently fighting a rat plague.
Socks	Domestic cat	* Late 1990 / early 1991; † February 20, 2009	Bill Clinton's domestic cat . Became known as "First Cat". He was put to sleep in 2009 after suffering from cancer.
Stümpfi	Domestic cat	* 2nd half of the 20th century	House cat from Renate Holm .
Sybil	Domestic cat	* 2006; † July 27, 2009	Chief Mouser under Gordon Brown , who was rumored not to like him. She was named after a character from Fawlty Towers and died when she was only 3 years old.
Tama	Domestic cat	* April 29, 1999; † June 22, 2015	Lived at Kishi Station , where she became station master and later deputy president of the railway company.
Toulouse	Domestic cat	* 1999; † June 30, 2017	Tomcat in Olten who moved independently in the old town; Protagonist of the volume of short stories "The King of Olten" by Alex Capus
Towser	Domestic cat	* April 21, 1963; † March 30, 1987	Cat of the Glenturret whiskey distillery and the hardest-working cat in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records . She is said to have caught 28,899 mice in 24 years.
Trim	Domestic cat	18th century	Matthew Flinders ' cat and possibly the first cat to circumnavigate the world
Treasury Bill		20th century	First Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office .
Wilberforce		* 1973 † May 19, 1988	Chief Mouser with longest tenure between 1973 and 1987.

See also

• List of known animals
• List of fictional animals
• List of fictional animals

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-cat-(domestic)
2. ↑ Bob the Cat has died. Retrieved June 17, 2020 (UK English). 
3. ↑ James Bowen: Bob the Stray - The Cat That Changed My Life . 14th edition. Bastei Lübbe , Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-404-60693-1 .
4. ↑ Popular suffering kat overleden. Hart van Nederland, August 9, 2013, accessed March 31, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Campus cats from Augsburg and Riedberg not only inspire students
6. ↑ Tickets-purr-lease-Hopping-bus-day-turned-Casper-cat-star-new-book-recalls-exploits
7. ↑ Copied pet: researchers clone cat for the first time
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Info from Tama on Facebook
9. ↑ Dewey's Bio ( Memento from July 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ Dusty the Klepto Kitty is a one-cat crime wave . Metro . February 16, 2011. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
11. ↑ FDC Willard: L'hélium three solid. Un antiferromagnétique nucléaire in La Recherche : sciences.gloubik.info
12. ^ JH Hetherington / FDC Willard: Two-, Three-, and Four-Atom Exchange Effects in bcc³He : prl.aps.org
13. ↑ Beloved two-faced cat that was only meant to live a few days dies of cancer aged 15 after setting Guinness World Record. Daily Mail , December 5, 2014, accessed December 6, 2014 . 
14. ↑ Michael Brick: A Detective. A celebrity. And That Was Just Life No. 1 .. The New York Times, August 12, 2006. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
15. ↑ Could George Osbornes cat be the purr-fect spy?
16. ^ Joseph Watts: Cat's out of the bag as Treasury reveals Whitehall arrival Gladstone. Evening Standard , accessed July 29, 2016 . 
17. ↑ About Grumpy Cat
18. ↑ Hank for Senate
19. ↑ Hodge, the oyster-eating cat by Dr. Samuel Johnson
20. ↑ Britain's most famous cat is dead
21. ^ "First Feline" India dead at 18
22. ↑ Cat runs 3000 km through Australia
23. ^ Cat Story: Jock, the cat who became a Landmark
24. ↑ This green Büsi became famous in Bulgaria
25. ^ Mystery of Bulgaria's green cat finally explained
26. ↑ Larry the tabby lands No10 job as rat catcher
27. ↑ A paw performance! Larry the Downing Street cat is sacked as Number 10's chief mouse catcher after chillaxing too much on the job
28. ↑ Hélène Cixous: Conversation with the donkey. Write blindly. Edited by Esther Hutfless & Elisabeth Schäfer, Vienna, Zaglossus, 2017, p. 75
29. ↑ Mrs. Chippy
30. ↑ Muezza (no longer available) Web Archive, November 21, 2011 ( Memento of November 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
31. ↑ Thomas Dörflein with collar bear mice and cat pussy
32. ↑ Hanno Hahn: Strange nursery for our 'Muzie' - a true incident. In: Our cat - Germany's first cat magazine. 13th year, issue 3, March 1939. pp. 42–43. (Verlag Mensch und Tier, Berlin W 35).
33. ↑ Frederick A. Cook : The first south polar night 1898-1899 . Publishing house of Jos. Kösel'schen Buchhandlung, Kempten 1903, p. 289.
34. ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 295.
35. ↑ Train station's popular cat mascot meets likely successor
36. ↑ The cat in the wreck
37. ↑ Sam Stall: Pepper - The First Feline Movie Star . In: 100 Cats Who Changed Civilization: History's Most Influential Felines . Quirk Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-59474-163-0 , pp. 122-123 .
38. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Miaow, Prime Minister
39. ↑ Wartime hero cat Simon remembered
40. ↑ Socks the Cat Dies ( Memento from August 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
41. ↑ About Socks: The Political World's Most Famous Cat ( Memento from July 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
42. ↑ Renate Holm: "Who gives his soul wings ..." Mastering life with art . Recorded by Christine Dobretsberger. Amalthea Verlag, Vienna, 2017, p. 111f
43. ↑ Downing Street house cat Sybil is dead
44. ^ Tama the Station Master Cat
45. ↑ Toulouse the cat is said to live high and long
46. ↑ The King of Olten is dead
47. ^ Towser and Barley
48. ^ Wilberforce the Cat