List of couples
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This is a list of people who are or have been famous as a couple. For a complete listing of pairs see Lists of pairs. For a list sorted by name see List of pairs by name.
- Hagbard and Signy (the Romeo and Juliet of the Vikings)
- Abelard & Heloise
- Adam & Eve (Biblical couples)
- John Alden & Priscilla (A real couple (but Priscilla's memorable line, "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?" is the fictional creation of Longfellow)
- Allen and Farrow
- Anthony and Dayanara
- Antony & Cleopatra
- Barbie & Ken (fictional couples)
- Benjamin Britten & Peter Pears (colleagues)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel (fictional couples)
- Bonnie & Clyde (colleagues; criminals)
- Caesar & Cleopatra
- Charles & Diana (Prince and former Princess of Wales)
- Cruise and Kidman
- "Daddy" Browning & "Peaches" Heenan (scandalous couples)
- Robert Browning & Elizabeth Barrett
- George Burns & Gracie Allen (colleagues; entertainers)
- De La Hoya and Corretjer
- Echevarria and Vigoreaux, (she went to jail accused of ordering his murder)
- Elsie and Elmer (fictional; mascots) Cows, trademark of Borden dairy circa 1938 on.
- Emilio and Gloria Estefan (entertainers)
- Gilbert & George (colleagues; entertainers; performance artists)
- Hero & Leander (mythological/legendary couples)
- Warren G. Harding & Nan Britton (scandalous couples)
- Myra Hindley & Ian Brady (serial child killers see Moors Murders)
- Homer & Marge (fictional couples)
- Rock Hudson & Doris Day (colleagues; entertainers; movies) (fictional couples) Played couples in battle-of-the-sexes comedies such as Pillow Talk
- Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings (scandalous couples)
- Joel and Brinkley
- Juno & the Peacock; see also Aesop, Alfred Hitchcock, Sean O'Casey (fictional couples)
- Lady & The Tramp (fictional couples)
- Lancelot & Guinevere (mythological/legendary couples)
- Leda & the Swan (mythological/legendary couples)
- Lucy & Desi (colleagues; rivals/opponents; commercial partners; entertainers)
- Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne (colleagues; entertainers; theatre)
- Aimee Semple McPherson & Kenneth G. Ormiston (scandalous couples)
- Madonna and Sean Penn
- Mary & Joseph (biblical couples; complementary)
- Wilbur Mills & Fanne Foxe (scandalous couples) (Senator caught with stripper, in the "tidal basin" incident)
- Napoleon & Josephine
- Evelyn Nesbit & Stanford White (scandalous couples)
- Othello & Desdemona (fictional couples; theatre)
- The Owl & the Pussycat (fictional couples)
- Pelleas et Melisande (mythological/legendary couples)
- Pierre & Marie Curie (colleagues; scientists)
- Philemon & Baucis (mythological/legendary couples)
- Porgy & Bess (fictional couples) Title of and character in DuBose Heyward's novel, on which the Gershwin opera was based
- Pyramus & Thisbe (fictional couples)
- Punch & Judy (fictional couples; archetypes; rivals/opponents)
- Roy Rogers & Dale Evans (colleagues; entertainers; singers; motion pictures)
- Romeo & Juliet (fictional couples; theatre)
- Samson & Delilah (mythological/legendary; Biblical couples)
- John Smith & Pocahontas
- King Solomon & the Queen of Sheba (mythological/legendary; Biblical couples)
- Sonny & Cher (colleagues; entertainers)
- Stallone and Nielsen
- Tarzan & Jane (fictional couples)
- Strom Thurmond & Essie Butler (scandalous couples) Biological parents of mixed-race Essie Mae Washington-Williams
- Travolta and Preston
- Tristan & Isolde (fictional couples)
- Troilus & Cressida (fictional couples)
- Tracy & Hepburn (colleagues; entertainers)
- Victoria & Albert (see also Victoria and Albert Museum)
- Zeus & Ganymede (mythological couples)