List of historical cats

• Sir Isaac Newton's cat, whose incessant desire to be let in or out allegedly drove him to devise the catflap.
• Mohammed's cat; the Prophet cut off his sleeve rather than disturb the cat, who was sleeping on it.

Named

• Dinah[?], the actual cat of Alice Liddell.
• Humphrey[?], the cat of Downing Street.
• India "Willie" Bush, US President George W. Bush's cat, named for Ruben Sierra "El Indio".
• 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.

Related topics

• List of fictional cats
• List of historical animals