List of individual dogs

Actors

Advertising

• Banjo, portrayed Carlos, an Irish Setter-Golden Retriever mix and star of Stroh's beer advertising in the 1980s. Also mentioned in the 1989 Tone Lōc song "Funky Cold Medina".
• Cheeka, a Pug who appeared in the popular "You & I" advertising campaign of Hutch's cellular service in India, along with the child actor Jayaram.
• Gidget, a female Chihuahua, was featured in a Taco Bell advertising campaign as the "Taco Bell Chihuahua". She also played the role of Bruiser's mother in the 2003 film Legally Blonde 2.
• Honey Tree Evil Eye, a female Bull Terrier, was known as Spuds MacKenzie in her role as the Budweiser spokes-dog.
• Nipper, the dog with the gramophone in the 1901 His Master's Voice logo.
• Sam, a Golden Retriever "professional stand-in, and stunt double", portrays the real Duke Bush at promotional events and in commercials for Bush's Best Baked Beans.
• Tinkerbelle, a Papillon/Maltese mix and canine model featured in advertisements for various companies.

  Film

• Ace the Wonder Dog, appeared in numerous films and serials in the 1930s and 1940s.
• Blair, a Collie, the first dog screen star, starred in Rescued by Rover in 1905.
• Buddy, a Golden Retriever, starred in the 1997 film Air Bud but died from cancer a year later.
• Cosmo, a Jack Russell Terrier from the 2010 film Beginners.
• Darla, a Bichon Frise best known for her role as Precious in the 1991 thriller The Silence of the Lambs.
• Higgins, a small Poodle-Schnauzer mix, played the leading role of Benji in the movie of the same name and had a recurring role on the TV series Petticoat Junction.
• Jean, the Vitagraph Dog, a Scotch Collie who is the screen's first leading canine to have her name in the film title; starred in movies from 1908 to 1913.
• Jed, a wolfdog who appeared in The Thing, The Journey of Natty Gann and White Fang.
• Keystone Teddy, a dog actor in the early 20th century, including in the namesake 1917 film Teddy at the Throttle.
• Koko, a red Australian Kelpie, played Red Dog in the 2011 film adaptation based on the eponymous novel.
• Lightning, a German Shepherd who played Prince in the first Perry Mason film, The Case of the Howling Dog and appeared in many other films.
• Messi, a Border Collie, played service dog Snoop in Justine Triet's 2023 film Anatomy of a Fall. Messi won the 2023 Palm Dog Award.
• Moose and his son Enzo, both Jack Russell Terriers, in My Dog Skip and the TV series Frasier.
• Pal, a Collie, played Lassie in the 1943 film Lassie Come Home, six more Lassie films, and two Lassie television show pilots.
• Peggy, actor in Deadpool & Wolverine and considered "Britain's ugliest dog".
• Pete the Pup, portrayed by several American Pit Bull Terriers in the Our Gang series.
• Red Dog, appeared in the 2011 film Red Dog and 2016 film Red Dog: True Blue, based on the true life story of a Kelpie who wandered around the outback Western Australia, looking for its owner.
• Rin Tin Tin, an internationally famous German Shepherd actor who starred in many silent films and a few sound films. His descendants carried on in film, radio and television roles.
• Skippy, a Wire Fox Terrier who, among other roles in 1930s films, played Asta in The Thin Man film and sequels.
• Shelby, the dog who acted Bella in A Dog's Way Home. She was found in a dumpster and then later taken to a shelter, before being trained for acting; she is now a therapy dog.
• Strongheart, also known as Etzel von Oeringen, was the first German Shepherd with name-above-the-title billing in a film. He starred in an adaptation of White Fang, released in 1925, and The Return of Boston Blackie, released in 1927.
• Sykes, star of several films, adverts and the British TV series, Midsomer Murders.
• Terry, a Cairn Terrier, played Toto in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
• Uggie, a Jack Russell Terrier, played Jack in the 2011 film The Artist and Queenie in the film Water for Elephants.

  Television

• Bouncer, played a dog also called Bouncer in the Australian soap opera Neighbours.
• Bullet, "the Wonder Dog", a black and silver AKC registered German Shepherd was a regular on the '50s TV show The Roy Rogers Show; his taxidermic remains were displayed at The Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Museum and he was sold in 2010 at Christie's for $35,000.
• Happy, furry white dog playing Happy on the TV show 7th Heaven.
• Inky, a police dog who appeared in the British police drama Softly, Softly: Taskforce during 1969–70.
• Madison, a Labrador Retriever, best known for playing the role of Vincent on the television series Lost.
• * Pono also played Vincent, which features in flashback scenes.
• Moose and his son Enzo played Eddie on the TV show Frasier.
• Petra, a mixed breed, the first Blue Peter dog; the 'original' Petra died after making one appearance and was replaced by a look-alike; this was kept secret until many years after the substitute's death.
• Shep, a Border Collie, featured on the Blue Peter television series.
• Soccer, a Jack Russell Terrier, star of the PBS show Wishbone.
• Tiger, appeared in The Brady Bunch and played a dog named Blood in the movie A Boy and His Dog.
• Yukon King, an Alaskan husky, played the lead sled dog and faithful sidekick of Sergeant Preston in Sergeant Preston of the Yukon.
• Zeltim Odie Peterson, aka Odie the Talking Pug, a pug that said "I Love You" on various talk shows.

  Athletes

• Ashley Whippet, the first disc dog, was a canine athlete of the 1970s and three-time winner of the Canine Frisbee Disc World Championships.
• Cindy, a Greyhound who earned Guinness World Record's Highest Jump by a Dog. Cindy cleared a hurdle.
• King Buck, a Labrador Retriever, successfully completed an unprecedented 63 consecutive series in the National Championship Stake and was the National Retriever Field Trial Club champion for two successive years, which accomplishment was not duplicated for nearly 40 years. He was also the first dog to appear on a United States Fish and Wildlife Service duck stamp, which always featured a water fowl.
• Master McGrath, an Irish Greyhound whose racing victories and fame gained him an audience with the British Royal Family.
• Mick the Miller, a racing Greyhound, was the first greyhound to win the English Derby in successive years and the first greyhound to run a course in under 30 seconds.
• Snip Nua, an Irish racing Greyhound partly owned by comedian Dara Ó Briain. Snip Nua's racing was viewed by 3 million UK viewers on the show Three Men Go to Ireland.

  Faithful dogs

Faithful after owner's death

• Canelo in Cádiz, Spain, used to walk with his owner to the hospital where he was receiving dialysis treatment. In 1990 his owner died at the hospital. Canelo died outside the hospital after waiting for 12 years. The town of Cádiz put his name to a street and a plaque in his honor.
• Capitán, a German Shepherd, ran away from his home in central Argentina, after the death of his owner Miguel Guzmán in 2006. About a week later, Guzmán's family found Capitán standing guard at Guzmán's grave after finding the cemetery on his own. When brought home, Capitán again ran away back to the grave of his former owner. He stood vigil over his owner's grave and received provisions from the cemetery staff so he did not need to leave. Capitán died in 2018.
• Dżok, the dog. Throughout the entire year Dżok was seen waiting in vain at the Rondo Grunwaldzkie roundabout in Kraków, Poland, to be fetched back by his owner, who had died there.
• Fido, a mixed-breed dog, whose owner, Carlo Soriani, had died in an air raid over Borgo San Lorenzo in 1943, during World War II. Fido waited in vain, for the following 14 years, for Soriani's return, going daily to the bus stop in Luco del Mugello where the man used to get off after coming home from work.
• Greyfriars Bobby, a Skye Terrier in Edinburgh, Scotland, was loyal to his owner long after his owner's death in 1858. Until Bobby's death 14 years later, he reportedly spent every night at his owner's grave. A statue in memorial of Greyfriars Bobby was erected near the graveyard. Several films have been made dramatising the life of Greyfriars Bobby, and in folklore he is popularly remembered throughout Scotland as a symbol of loyalty.
• Hachikō, an Akita who became a symbol of loyalty in Japan, is now honored by a statue in Tokyo. Hachikō is famous for his loyalty to his long-dead owner Hidesaburō Ueno, by returning to the train station and waiting for his return, every day for the next nine years during the time the train was scheduled to arrive.
• Kostya, in the mid-1990s in Tolyatti, Russia – a man and a girl died in a car crash during the summer of 1995, leaving their dog as the only survivor. The German Shepherd, named Constantine aka Kostya or Faithful Kostya by the locals, kept coming to the same spot for the next seven years braving freezing winters and hot summers. Loyalty – a bronze statue honouring the dog's loyalty was placed on that spot in 2003 by the city authorities.
• Ruswarp, a Border Collie who disappeared while hiking with his owner Graham Nuttall in the Welsh Mountains near Llandrindod Wells on 20 January 1990. On 7 April, a hiker discovered Nuttall's body near a mountain stream, where Ruswarp had been standing guard for 11 weeks. The 14-year-old dog was so weak he had to be carried off the mountain, and died shortly after Nuttall's funeral. There is a statue of Ruswarp on a platform of Garsdale railway station.
• Pikeman's dog, a terrier that stayed with his owner who fought as a pikeman at the Battle of the Eureka Stockade and accompanied the corpse to the cemetery.
• Seaman, the Newfoundland belonging to explorer Meriweather Lewis, would not eat or leave his owner's grave, and died of grief.
• Shep, belonging to a sheepherder who died in Fort Benton, Montana, in August 1936 followed his owner's casket to the train station and fashioned a den under the depot platform after the body was shipped back east. For the next five and a half years, Shep met every passenger train arriving there—four a day—sniffing at the passengers and baggage car doors. His vigil became widely publicized including a feature in "Ripley's Believe It or Not". Passengers took the Havre to Great Falls rail line just to see the dog, and he received so much fan mail that the Great Northern Railroad assigned a secretary to help with responses. On 12 Jan. 1942, Shep was struck and killed by an arriving train. AP and UPI issued his obituary nationwide; thousands sent condolences and hundreds attended his funeral. The Great Northern erected an obelisk at his gravesite on a bluff overlooking the depot and town. In 1994, the citizens of Fort Benton further memorialized the dog with a heroic bronze erected on the town's steamboat levee.
• Theo, an English Springer Spaniel belonging to Lance Corporal Liam Tasker of the British Army. Theo was used to sniff out roadside bombs in Afghanistan. In 2010, Theo and Tasker were in a firefight with insurgents, killing Tasker. Theo died later at a British army base from a fatal seizure, although many believe he died from a broken heart. Tasker's body and Theo's ashes were returned to England, where Tasker's family was presented with Theo's ashes in a private ceremony. In October 2012, Theo was posthumously honored with the Dickin Medal, Britain's highest award for bravery by animals.
• Waghya, meaning "tiger" in Marathi, was the pet dog of Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji. After Shivaji's death, the dog mourned and is said to have jumped into his owner's funeral pyre and immolated himself. A statue was put up on a pedestal next to Shivaji's tomb at Raigad Fort.
• K9 Big Wolf - Police Dog of the People's Armed Police Dehong detachment. On 22 August 2011, his handler Private Yao Yuanjun drowned while fighting with drug traffickers, and several months later "Big Wolf" was filmed on national TV, still waiting for his handler to return at their training location near the Shweli River, gaining fame on Chinese social media; "Big Wolf" continues to wait at the same training site for over a decade.