List of individual cats

Before the modern era

• Nedjem or Nojem, 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.
• Ta-Miu, 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.
• Muezza, 7th century CE. The cat of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
• Pangur Bán, 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 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.

  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 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.

  By country

Canada

• Tuxedo Stan, a cat who ran for mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

  Czech Republic

• Micka, Czech Republic's "First Cat" belonging to the President Petr Pavel

  Ecuador

• Michi, also known as the Embassy Cat, Julian Assange's cat that lived with him in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London until Assange's arrest.

  Indonesia

• Bobby Kertanegara, a domestic shorthaired tabby cat, known for being the pet of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto.

  Jersey

• Oscar, a cat in Jersey fitted with 'bionic' hind limbs designed by vet Noel Fitzpatrick following an accident in 2009.

  New Zealand

• Mittens, a ginger Turkish Angora who wandered Wellington, New Zealand especially in Te Aro, before his relocation to Auckland. He has a Facebook fanbase who regularly post photos of him climbing into rental cars, entering businesses, and napping in unusual places.
• Paddles, New Zealand's "First Cat", a polydactyl cat that belonged to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

  Poland

• 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.

  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.

  Sweden

• Luffar-Lasse, an orange cat that gained notoriety for his daily excursions to the Överby 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. In 2024 he starred in the Slow television show "En helg med Luffar-Lasse" and a statue in his honor was erected close to his usual whereabouts at the Överby shopping center.

  Taiwan

• Longjiaosun
• Mikan
• Think Think and Ah Tsai, who belong to Tsai Ing-wen, the former President of Taiwan.

  Turkey

• Gli, a cat from Istanbul best known for living in the Hagia Sophia.
• Tombili, popular street cat from Istanbul who had a statue made of him after his death.
• Şerafettin who resided in the headquarters of the Republican People's Party was a significant icon in Turkish politics before dying at the age of 20.

  Ukraine

• Stepan is a striped cat from Kharkiv, who became famous worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. His Instagram page helped raise support for Ukrainian animals after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Stepan was appointed as an 'ambassador' by the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy as part of their 'Save Ukrainian Culture' campaign. In 2024, after Stepan became ill from the continuing attacks, he and his owner relocated to Germany.

  United Kingdom

• Attlee, resident cat of the Speaker of the House of Commons, named for Prime Minister Clement Attlee
• Beerbohm, a cat that resided at the Gielgud Theatre in London.
• Bob, a London street cat made famous in books and a film
• Casper, a cat who regularly rode the bus on his own in Plymouth and had a book written about his story.
• Catmando, joint leader of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party from 1999 to 2002
• Chief Mousers to the British Cabinet Office: Freya, Humphrey, Larry, Peta, Peter, Peter II, Peter III, Sybil, Wilberforce
• Crimean Tom, a cat that helped British Army troops find food after the Siege of Sevastopol
• Faith, a London cat that took up residence in St Faith & St Augustine's church in wartime, and received a PDSA Silver Medal for her bravery in caring for her kitten when the church was bombed.
• Gladstone, Chief Mouser of HM Treasury at Whitehall in London since 2016
• Hamish McHamish, a long-haired ginger cat that was adopted by the citizens of the town of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, and has had a statue built in his honour.
• Hodge, the "very fine cat" of Samuel Johnson
• Jock, the favourite cat of Winston Churchill in his later life. Named after Jock Colville, who gave Churchill the cat for his 88th birthday. The National Trust now ensures that there is always a marmalade cat called Jock at Churchill's home, Chartwell.
• Mike, a cat who guarded the entrance to the British Museum.
• Nala, a cat popular with commuters, known for sitting on ticket barriers at Stevenage railway station
• Nelson, Prime Minister Winston Churchill's cat, who resided at 10 Downing Street and elsewhere during the Blitz. Noted in Erik Larson's book The Splendid and the Vile and elsewhere.
• Palmerston, Chief Mouser of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office from 2016 to 2020
• Peter, the Lord's cat, the only animal to have an obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
• Simpkin, the traditional name of the mouser of Hertford College, Oxford, named after a character in the book The Tailor of Gloucester, by Beatrix Potter. The current incumbent, from 2017, is Simpkin IV.
• Tibs the Great was the British Post Office's "number one cat" and kept the post office headquarters completely mouse-free during his 14 years of service.
• Tiddles, tabby resident of the ladies' toilet at Paddington Station, London. Thousands of passengers met him and their donations fed him.
• Tobermory Cat, a cat living in Tobermory, made famous by Angus Stewart.
• Unsinkable Sam, the ship's cat that survived the sinking of the Bismarck, HMS Cossack and HMS Ark Royal.

  United States

• US Presidential Cats: India "Willie" Bush, Misty Malarky Ying Yang, Puffins, Shan, Socks Clinton, Tabby and Dixie, Tiger and Blacky, Willow
• Blackie the Talking Cat, a "talking" cat who was exhibited by an unemployed couple on the streets of Augusta, Georgia. Blackie became the subject of a court case, Miles v. City Council of Augusta.
• Blue, a Siamese cat taken hostage in Gresham, Oregon, in a grocery store in the United States in 1994.
• Browser, Texas library cat
• Brünnhilde, a cat known for having her photos displayed by the Library of Congress.
• CC , the first cloned cat.
• Cheeto , a cat living on the UC Davis campus near the physics building.
• Dusty the Klepto Kitty, notorious for being an expert night cat burglar.
• Francine, a cat living in a Lowe's store in Richmond, Virginia.
• F. D. C. Willard, or Felis Domesticus Chester Willard, a feline physicist, co-author and author, owned by Jack H. Hetherington.
• Fred the Undercover Kitty, a cat famous for assisting the NYPD and Brooklyn District Attorney's Office in 2006.
• Hank the Cat, a Maine Coon who ran for Senate in the commonwealth of Virginia in the 2012 US elections. He finished in third place behind winner Democrat Tim Kaine.
• Jack, a cat who was lost by American Airlines baggage handlers at John F. Kennedy International Airport before Hurricane Irene. He was found later but was severely dehydrated and malnourished after his 61-day ordeal and was euthanized.
• Jorts, office pet whose persona was used by a Twitter account to support workers
• KitKat, a cat who was killed by a Waymo car in San Francisco.
• Lewis, a cat who became infamous after being placed under house arrest.
• Little Nicky, the first commercially cloned pet.
• Mayor Stubbs, a cat who was honorary mayor of the town of Talkeetna, Alaska, from 1997 until his death in 2017.
• Nora, a gray tabby cat who apparently amuses herself by playing the piano.
• 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 100+ times.
• Pot Roast, a cat that went viral on TikTok.
• Room 8, a tomcat who appeared at Elysian Heights Elementary School in Echo Park, California, at the start of the school year in 1952, returning every day thereafter, before disappearing for the summer, only to return the following September. This behavior continued into the mid-1960s.
• Scarlett, who in 1996 saved her kittens one by one from a fire in Brooklyn, New York, 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.