| Character | Earliest Appearance | Notes |
| Cheshire Cat | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Sometimes raises philosophical points that annoy or baffle Alice. It does, however, appear to cheer her up when it turns up suddenly at the Queen of Hearts' croquet field, and when sentenced to death baffles everyone by having made its head appear without its body, sparking a massive argument between the executioner and the King and Queen of Hearts about whether something that does not have a body can indeed be beheaded. |
| Crookshanks | Harry Potter | The pet cat of Hermione Granger. He is described as having a "squashed face", which was inspired by a real cat Rowling once saw, which she said looked like it had run face first into a brick wall, most likely a Persian. Hermione buys Crookshanks from a shop in Diagon Alley out of sympathy, as nobody wants him because of his behaviour and his squashed looking-face. Rowling has confirmed that Crookshanks is half Kneazle, an intelligent, cat-like creature who can detect when they are around untrustworthy people, explaining his higher than normal cat intelligence and stature. |
| Pete the Cat | Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes | Pete started as a book series, and later became an inspiration for a song and its own television series on Amazon Prime. |
| The Cat in the Hat | The Cat in the Hat | The Cat in the Hat is a tall, anthropomorphic cat who wears a red and white-striped hat and a red bow tie. The Cat creates chaos when he shows up at the house of Sally and her brother while their mother is out. The children and the fish become very alarmed. Just before the children's mother arrives home the Cat uses a machine to clean up the mess, and then disappears. |
| List of [Stuart Little characters#Snowbell|Snowbell] | Stuart Little | Snowbell is a cat belonging to the Little family, of which Stuart is the youngest son. Snowbell has a malevolent attitude toward Stuart, though her behavior is tempered by her familial obligations. When the Little family adopt a bird named Margalo, Snowbell plots to kill her, predicating her departure. Stuart follows, and his pursuit comprises the second half of the story. |
| Speaker-to-Animals | Ringworld and Man-Kzin Wars book series | Member of the Kzinti race of anthropomorphic felines in the Larry Niven collection of books. One of the few to have earned the right to bear a name. |
| Conrad the Cat Detective | The Cat Who Caught A Killer | Conrad is a male calico cat who talks and helps Lulu Lewis, his chosen human who is a retired police officer and lives on a canal boat, to solve murders. |
| Character | Origin | Notes |
| Garfield | Garfield | Garfield is an orange tabby cat born in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant and immediately ate all the pasta and lasagna in sight, thus developing his love and obsession for lasagna. As an adult he is fat and lazy but extremely intelligent and fond of wisecracks in thought bubbles, with his owner Jon Arbuckle serving as a comic foil for him. |
| Heathcliff | Heathcliff | A boisterous and chubby but athletic tabby cat prone to wisecracks, causing physical mischief, chasing mailmen, and overturning garbage cans. Other felines from the strip include: The Catfather. |
| Hobbes | Calvin and Hobbes | A plush Bengal tiger and best friend of Calvin, Hobbes is perceived by Calvin as being a live tiger, but by every other character as a stuffed toy. Hobbes, whose name is an allusion to the English political philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, often tries to be the voice of reason for Calvin during their numerous adventures. |
| Krazy Kat | Krazy Kat | One of the first cats to star in a comic strip; the protagonist of the eponymous strip by George Herriman. Sweet and good-natured and simple, adores the scheming, wily, antisocial Ignatz Mouse even though Ignatz constantly plots against her. |
| Bucky B. Katt | Get Fuzzy | A sarcastic Siamese cat with an inflated ego, Bucky lives in an apartment with his human owner Rob Wilco and a dog named Satchel. Bucky's obsessions include becoming famous, inflicting harm on his roommates for perceived injustices and feuding with Fungo, a ferret who lives next door. Bucky is always drawn with his ears folded back, as if he is constantly in a state of aggressiveness or agitation. |
| Snuffles | Pearls Before Swine | A Himalayan White Cat who likes to hold grenades and throw them everywhere. He is owned by Zebra and is best friends with Guard Duck who likes to make armies and use guns. |
| Character | Origin | Notes |
| Maneki-neko | Various folk-stories | A common Japanese sculpture, often made of ceramic, which is believed to bring good luck to the owner. The sculpture depicts a cat beckoning with an upright paw, and is usually displayed—many times at the entrance—in shops, restaurants, pachinko parlors, and other businesses. Some of the sculptures are electric or battery-powered and have a slow-moving paw beckoning. |
| Puss | Puss in Boots | Originally titled Le Maître Chat or Le Chat Botté, this French fairytale is about a cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and low-born master. |
| Cat-sìth | Various folk-stories | A fairy creature from Celtic mythology, said to resemble a large black cat with a white spot on its breast. |
| The White Cat | La Chatte Blanche | The White Cat is a character of the Animal Bride cycle of stories. It is present in a variant of the story: French literary fairytale La Chatte Blanche, penned by Madame d'Aulnoy. The character also features as a cameo in Tchaikovisky's ballet The Sleeping Beauty, during Aurora's wedding in Act III. |
| Señor Don Gato | Children's song | A cat who is sitting on a roof when he discovers that his true love has agreed to marry him. In his excitement, he falls off and injures himself. The veterinarian is unable to save him and he dies. However, as his funeral procession passes through the market, the scent of fish from the market is so strong that he returns to life. |
| Character | Origin | Notes |
| Mr. Bigglesworth | Austin Powers | A parody of Blofeld's cat from James Bond films |
| DC | That Darn Cat! | A wily, adventurous Siamese tomcat who lives with two young women, suburbanite sisters Ingrid and Patti Randall, whose parents are traveling abroad at the time of the story. In the 1997 remake the cat is a grey and white tabby. |
| Filby | Primer | Aaron’s cat. When missing, called by name by Aaron and Abe during the fountain scene. Filby is most likely named after a character in the science fiction novel, The Time Machine, written by H.G. Wells in 1894. |
| Jake | The Cat from Outer Space | A cat-like alien. His real name is Zunar-J-5/9 Doric-4-7. |
| Puss in Boots | Shrek 2 | A cat from the Shrek franchise, voiced by Antonio Banderas performances|Antonio Banderas] in English, Italian, and Spanish in the following films: Shrek 2 and Far Far Away Idol in 2004, Shrek the Third, Shrek Forever After, Puss in Boots, Puss in Boots: The Three Diablos, and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. Puss was voiced by Eric Bauza in the six-season series The Adventures of Puss in Boots, and by Andé Sogliuzzo and Christian Lanz in the video games. Sogliuzzo also voiced Puss in the series of one-minute web videos by DreamWorkstv in which Puss gives advice to viewers, NEW Puss in Boots! by Peacock Kids on YouTube. |
| Jones | Alien | Ship's cat of the Nostromo, commonly referred to as "Jonesy". Also briefly appears in Aliens. |
| Pyewacket | Bell, Book and Candle | Siamese cat and familiar of Gillian Holroyd, who is a witch |
| Smarf | Too Many Cooks | An anthropomorphic cat puppet used in the short, a parody of various other puppets used in sitcoms. |
| Character | Origin | Ref | Notes |
| 808 | Hi-Fi Rush | | A robotic black cat created by Peppermint, serving as a pet companion to the player character, Chai. |
| Alvina of the Darkroot Wood | Dark Souls | | A hulking leader of the Forest Hunter Covenant who is capable of speaking and understanding the English language. She is voiced by Eve Karpf. |
| Ankha | Animal Crossing series | | A snooty yellow-and-navy blue female feline villager. She dons Egyptian clothing akin to that of a pharaoh, and a necklace around her neck. A king cobra emblem rests on her forehead. In Animal Crossing: City Folk, however, the emblem is of a scarab beetle. |
| Big the Cat | Sonic Adventure | | A large, purple anthropomorphic cat with yellow eyes and long ears. Big is laid-back and easygoing, which is reflected in his speech. Strong but gentle and a little slow, he lives a normally peaceful life in the jungle with his best friend "Froggy". He loves fishing, and he is never without his favorite rod and lure. |
| Blanca | Animal Crossing series | | An anthropomorphic white cat. Although having a variable gender, the special character is male in Japan, and female internationally. Blanca is known for having a blank face and lets the player draw a face. |
| Blaze | Sonic Rush | | A lavender teenage girl cat who is a princess of an alternate dimension. |
| Blinx | Blinx: The Time Sweeper | | A young Time Sweeper and the eponymous main protagonist. He is featured as a support character in Blinx 2: [Masters of Time and Space]. His enemies mostly include Time Monsters and the Tom Tom Gang. |
| Bubsy | Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind | | An anthropomorphic bobcat who aims to take on aliens that stole much of the world's yarn balls. |
| Cait Sith | Final Fantasy VII | | Cait Sith is a robotic talking cat who is friendly, but often unreliable and speaks with a Scottish accent. In Final Fantasy VII, he rides on the back of an unnamed robotic moogle. |
| Felyne | Monster Hunter Wilds | | A race of bipedal feline warriors. Palicoes are a type of Felyne that serve as a companion to the player. |
| Khajiit | The Elder Scrolls: Arena | | A race of anthropomorphic feline warriors. |
| Kimahri Ronso | Final Fantasy X | | |
| Li'l Judd | Splatoon | | A gray and white cat who determines the winning team in Turf War battles. Prior to the events of Splatoon, Judd was cryogenically frozen and placed inside a capsule that allowed him to stay alive while all other land mammals perished due to rising sea levels. He is accompanied by his smaller clone, Lil' Judd, in Splatoon 2 and 3. |
| Margaret "Mae" Borowski | Night in the Woods | | A 20-year old anthropomorphic black cat who wears dark apparel. She is a college dropout and a bass guitarist. |
| Meowscles | Fortnite | | A muscular anthropomorphic male cat skin and Meow Skulls' brother. |
| Meow Skulls | Fortnite | | An anthropomorphic female emo calico cat skin and Meowscles' sister. |
| List of [Persona 5 characters#Morgana|Morgana] | Persona 5 | | A black cat serving as the mentor of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts with the code name Mona. |
| Raymond | Animal Crossing series | | A snooty cat villager with heterochromia iridum eyes. He dons a business suit, a necktie, and a pair of eyeglasses. He first appears in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. |
| Rover | Animal Crossing series | | The very first feline NPC the player meets on a train ride in the original Animal Crossing game. He dons a diamond-patterned shirt with yellow trimmings. |
| Talking Tom | Talking Tom & Friends series | | Tom is an anthropomorphic grey cat and titular character of the franchise. |
| Yuumi | League of Legends | | A mystical talking cat and keeper of a book titled Book of Thresholds that was written by her enchantress owner, Norra. She often gets distracted by the sight of either a map or a fish. Voiced by Cassandra Lee Morris. |
| Pokémon | | The Pokémon franchise contains several notable cat characters including Meowth, Sprigatito, Floragato, and Meowscarada. |
| Stray | | The stray cat protagonist and player character. |