[edit] Cats famous in their own right

• Anfield Cat, a cat who became famous after wandering on to the Liverpool pitch during a football match. Currently has over 74,000 followers on Twitter.^[1]
• Baggage, a cat famous for lending its name to the hit British TV show ‘baggage’, hosted by his owner, Gok Wan.^[3]
• Blackie, a cat that inherited 15 million British Pounds and thus became the richest cat in history.^[4]
• Bob, a ginger cat that was found injured and adopted by a London busker, James Bowen, in 2007. Bob’s and Bowen’s adventures together on the streets of London became the subject of a book, published in March 2012, A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man And His Cat Found Hope On The Streets.^[5]
• Brutus “The Morrisons Cat”, is famous in his village of Saltney just outside Chester where he visits the Morrisons supermarket nearly every day and currently has nearly 1000 followers on his Facebook page www.facebook.com/Brutusthesaltneycat. He lives in Saltney and is owned by Claire and Adam. He was found as a stray in 2008 when he was about 8–10 months old, being kicked by some kids but was taken to the local vets where Claire worked as a Veterinary Nurse and adopted him after a few days when no one came to claim him. He was given the name Brutus after Claire and Adam both read the Emperor series of books by Conn Iggulden and decided to call him after Marcus Brutus, friend and traitor to Gaius Julius Caesar.
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• Catarina, The Black Cat.
• Chase No Face, a cat who lost her face in an accident, and is now a therapy cat for people with disfigurements.^[8]
• Cherry Pop,”Jovan Cherry Pop of Mystichill”,(1981–1995) was a pedigree Champion Persian who became the poster cat for the Broward Country Humane Society.^[10]
• Chessie System, whose slogan was “sleep like a kitten.”
• CC (Copy Cat, or Carbon Cat), the first cloned cat.
• Creme Puff, the world’s oldest cat (1967–2005). Owned by Jake Perry.^[11]
• Dewey, the library cat from Spencer, Iowa. Born Nov 1987; abandoned at the Library in Jan 1988; died (euthanized) December 2006. Subject of a best-selling book, Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World^[12]
• Emily, an American cat who, after being lost, was found to have gone to France.^[13]
• 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.^[14]
• Fred the Undercover Kitty, a cat famous for assisting the NYPD and Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office in 2006.
• Hank, a Maine Coon that ran for Senate in the state of Virginia in the 2012 US elections. He finished in third place behind winner Democrat Tim Kaine. ^[15]
• Henrietta, the now-deceased cat of ISBN 0-684-87100-9 in one printing).
• Himmy from Cairns, [16]
• Life of Johnson, as shedding light on his owner’s character.
• Yes Minister.
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• Jeong-Soon, South Korea‘s Vegan Temple-Cat^[21]
• internet celebrity.
• Downing Street cat from February 2011.
• Leo Not Lion, beloved show cat, named one of the world’s most pampered cats, along with Cherry Pop.^[22]
• Lewis, a cat who became infamous after being placed under house arrest.
• Little Nicky, first cloned animal for commercial reasons.
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• Internet celebrity famous for his love of boxes.
• Marzipan (c.1992), a [25]
• 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.^[26]
• Meow, once the world’s heaviest cat.
• British Museum
• Ernest Shackleton expedition.
• Belgian Antarctic Expedition 1897-99.
• Nora, a gray tabby cat who plays the piano along side her owner.
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s and other movies.
• 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.^[27]
• Pangur Bán, the cat who inspired an otherwise unknown 8th (or 9th) century Irish monk to write a poem cataloguing their similarities.
• Peter, the Lord’s cat, the only animal to have an obituary in Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.^[28]
• Red, a cat who became a millionaire in 2005.^[29]
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• 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.^[30]
• Dickin Medal, for his rat-catching and morale-boosting activities during the Yangtse Incident in 1949.
• Smokey, the Guinness World Records Loudest Purring Cat in the World. Smokey was recorded at purring at a level of 67.7dB when measured at a distance of 1 metre away. This is a level 14 x louder than an average cats purr. Smokey has been featured in newspapers, web sites, radio stations and by television news crews all around the world. Smokey has a book which tells her story of transformation from many times rehomed cat to International celebrity.The cat became famous after promoting a neutering campaign for the British feline charity Cats Protection with the idea of a purring competition on her local radio station. The cat has her own web site www.smokeythepurringcat.com
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• Bill Clinton.
• 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 48½ inches.
• Stubbs, a cat who was elected mayor of the town of Talkeetna, Alaska in 1997, as a write-in candidate.
• Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
• Tardar Sauce, or “Tard” for short, an Internet celebrity also known as Grumpy Cat^[31]
• 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).
• Tiddles, female tabby resident of the Ladies’ toilet at Paddington Station, London. Thousands of passengers met her (including men, who were allowed in by permission for this sole purpose) and their donations fed her – unfortunately too generously for her death in 1983 was mainly due to overeating (she weighed in at 32lb).
• Matthew Flinders.
• Harry and Tonto (1974). ‘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.
• Downing Street cat under four British Prime Ministers
• Willow, a cat lost from a Boulder, Colorado home, who was discovered 5 years later and 1,800 miles away in New York City. She survived owls, coyotes, criminals, and Manhattan traffic. She was reunited with her owners with the help of her microchip.^[32]
• 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.^[33]