List of pairs of colleagues
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This is a list of pairs of people notable in their field by virtue of working together. For a complete listing of pairs see Lists of pairs. For a list of pairs sorted by name see List of pairs by name
- Abbott & Costello (entertainers)
- Addison & Steele (writers)
- Alcock & Brown (aviators)
- Anna & the King of Siam (Anna Leonowens and King Mongkut )
- Fred & Adele Astaire (entertainers; siblings)
- Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers (entertainers)
- Batman and Robin (fictional)
- Beaumont & Fletcher (playwrights)
- Benjamin Britten & Peter Pears (couples)
- Bird and Magic (rivals)
- Bonnie & Clyde (couples; criminals)
- Buck & Bubbles (entertainers)
- Burke & Hare (criminals)
- George Burns & Gracie Allen (entertainers; couples)
- Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (companions; criminals) (Subject of motion picture Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid)
- Iris Chacon and Charytin (rivals)
- Cheech & Chong (entertainers)
- Chrissie and Martina (rivals)
- Christopher Columbus & Queen Isabel
- Click & Clack (entertainers) ("the Tappet brothers") (Tom and Ray Magliosi)
- Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon (crossword puzzle authors)
- Pierre & Marie Curie (couples; scientists)
- Dalziel & Pascoe (fictional; detectives) Creations of Reginald Hill
- Eckert & Mauchly (also commercial partners)
- Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford (entertainers)
- Ferrante & Teicher (entertainers) (duo-pianists)
- Flanders & Swann (entertainers)
- Gallagher & Shean (entertainers)
- Bill Gates & Paul Allen (business partners) Founders of Microsoft Corporation
- George & Ira Gershwin (siblings; songwriters)
- Gilbert & George (entertainers; couples) (performance artists)
- Gilbert & Sullivan (songwriters)
- Goodson & Todman (television game-show producers)
- Hardy & Littlewood Mathematicians in the field of number theory.
- William Hewlett and David Packard (business partners) Founders of Hewlett-Packard
- Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay
- Homer & Jethro (entertainers)
- Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson (fictional; companions)
- Rock Hudson & Doris Day (entertainers; movies) (fictional; couples) Played couples in battle-of-the-sexes comedies such as Pillow Talk
- Huntley & Brinkley
- Agents Jay and Kay (fictional)
- Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak (commercial partners) The proverbial "two Steves in a garage" who founded Apple Computer, Inc.. (with assistance from Mike Markkula)
- Kernighan & Ritchie Computer scientists
- Laurel & Hardy (entertainers; animated cartoon)
- Leopold & Loeb (criminals)
- Lewis & Clark (explorers)
- Lennon & McCartney (songwriters)
- Lone Ranger & Tonto (fictional)
- Lucy & Desi (couples; rivals/opponents; commercial partners; entertainers)
- Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne (couples; entertainers; theatre)
- McGwire and Sosa (both of whom broke Roger Maris' home run record in 1998)
- Marx & Engels
- Mason & Dixon
- Masters & Johnson (scientists)
- Michaelis & Menten (scientists)
- Michelson & Morley (scientists)
- Morecambe & Wise (entertainers; comedians)
- Mutt & Jeff (spies)
- Fox Mulder and Dana Scully (fictional; television)
- Penn & Teller (entertainers; illusionists)
- Redgrave & Pinsent (athletes)
- Regis & Kathie Lee (entertainers; television)
- Ren & Stimpy (fictional; animated cartoon)
- Rodgers & Hammerstein (songwriters)
- Roy Rogers & Dale Evans (couples; entertainers; singers; motion pictures)
- Rowan & Martin (entertainers; comedians; television)
- Russell & Whitehead (mathematicians)
- Sellar & Yeatman (authors; humorists) Authors of 1066 and All That
- Siegfried & Roy (entertainers)
- Simon & Garfunkel (entertainers)
- Siskel & Ebert (Print and television movies reviewers) (Siskel 1946-1999)(Ebert& Roeper aren't really a "famous pair" yet)
- Smith & Jones (fictional)
- Smothers Brothers (entertainers)
- Sonny & Cher (entertainers; couples)
- Starsky & Hutch (fictional)
- Stockton and Malone (athletes, teammates)
- Tex & Jinx (entertainers)
- Torvill & Dean (entertainers) (figure skaters)
- Tracy & Hepburn (entertainers; couples)
- Wayne & Shuster (entertainers)
- Watson & Crick (scientists)
- Weber & Fields (entertainers)
- Wilbur & Orville Wright (siblings)
- Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin (fictional; detectives) Creations of Rex Stout
- Woodward & Bernstein (journalists)