List of historical cats
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Unnamed
- Sir Isaac Newton's cat, whose incessant desire to be let in or out allegedly drove him to devise the catflap.
Named
- Cc the cat, the first cloned pet.
- Dinah, the actual cat of Alice Liddell.
- Humphrey, a cat who took up residence at Downing Street in the early 1990s (named for the character of Sir Humphrey Appleby in Yes, Minister).
- India "Willie" Bush, US President George W. Bush's cat, named for Ruben Sierra "El Indio".
- Muezza, the cat of Mohammed; the Prophet cut off his sleeve rather than disturb the cat, who was sleeping on it.
- Pangur Ban, the cat who inspired an otherwise unknown 8th (or 9th) century Irish monk to write a poem cataloguing their similarities.
- Socks, US President Bill Clinton's adopted stray cat, named by his daughter Chelsea.
- Trim, beloved ship's cat of explorer Matthew Flinders, said to have been the first cat to circumnavigate the world.
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