Cat artists and cat illustrators

Here are a few of the most famous cat artists and illustrators:

Nicola Bayley, Debby Faulkner-Stevens, Lesley Fotherby, Geraldine Givan, Kathleen Hale, Susan Herbert, Lesley Anne Ivory, Clare Mackie, Anne Mortimer, Dede Moser, Victor Napolski, Una Woodruff and, of course, Louis Wain.
 

Below is a list of cat’s names followed by the book or film that made them famous. Some of these cats are courageous heroes or are villainous masterminds. I am sure that you will find your favourite.

Abelard - I Capture the Castle

Aineko - Accelerando

Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, - Children of the Red King

Baal - The Man Who Thought He Was Hitler

Baby - Earth's Children books

Bastet - Amelia Peabody series

Behemoth - The Master and Margarita

Bendigo Bung-Eye - Saddlebottom

Pluto - A study of the psychology of guilt and death

Blackjack - Fool on the Hill

Blackmalkin, Greymalkin, and Nibbins - The Midnight Folk

Boald Tib - Finnegans Wake

Boabdil - The Wishing Season

Boon - The Pendragon series

Boris - Tales of the City series

Broccoli - The Broccoli Tapes

Carbonel - Carbonel trilogy

The Cheshire Cat - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Chester - Bunnicula

Church Hill - Pet Sematary

Cinderpelt - The Warriors series

Clarence - Clarence the Copy Cat

Crookshanks - Harry Potter novels

Damn Cat - Disney filmThat Darn Cat

Dinah - Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Dot - Little Dot assist her master against "The Beast"

Dragon - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Dulcie - Grimbold's Other World

Edgewood Dirk - The Landover novels

Eureka - Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

Eurydice - The Whitby Witches trilogy

Faithful - The Song of the Lioness

Familiar - The Familiar series

Fat Louie - The Princess Diaries series.

Figaro - Pinocchio

Firestar - Warriors series

Mrs Figg's cats - Harry Potter

Flame - Magic Kitten series

Francis - Felidae

Fritti Tailchaser - Tailchaser's Song

Gareth - Time Cat

General Sterling Price - True Grit

Gernisavien - The Death of the Centaur and The Hollow Man

Ginger - The Last Battle

The Glass Cat - The Patchwork Girl of Oz

Gobbolino - Gobbolino, the Witch's Cat

Jeffy - Gobbolino, the Witch's Cat

Good Fortune - The Cat Who Went to Heaven

Gracie - Ginger Pye & Pinky Pye

Graybar - Ragweed

Graymalk - A Night in the Lonesome October

Gray-Malkin - Macbeth

Grimbold - Grimbold's Other World

Grimalkin - King of the Wind

Greebo - Discworld

Guenhwyvar - The Dark Elf Trilogy

Gummitch the superkitten - Space-time For Springers and other stories

Haohao - Dream Collector.

Hitler the Cat - You Say You Want a Revolution: Rock Music in American Culture

Horace - Nick and the Glimmung

Harry Cat - The Cricket in Times Square

Imelza - The Alchymist's Cat

Itty - Dr Dolittle's Return

Jennie Baldrin – Jennie / The Abandoned

Jules - Cat Witch

Jupiter - The Deptford Mice

Clever Khat - Midnite: the Story of a Wild Colonial Boy

Kater Murr (Tomcat Murr) - The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr

Keeshah - Gandalara Cycle

Kitty - Little House books

Lipshen - The Witches

Marlinspike - Wolf Hall

Martha - Pet Smart

Marmaduke Purr Cat - The Adventures of Marmaduke Purr Cat

Tiger - Catwalk A Feline Odyssey

Matroskin - Uncle Fyodor, His Dog and His Cat

Maurice - The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

Mike - Emily of New Moon

Minnaloushe - The Cat and the Moon

Mister - The Dresden Files

Mog - Meg and Mog series

Moglet - The Unlikely Ones

Montezuma - The Nine Lives of Montezuma

Mottyl - Not Wanted on the Voyage

Mowzer - The Mousehole Cat

Mr. Peterson - Jim's Journal

Mrs. Norris - Harry Potter

Natalie Frost - St. John's Wood tales

O'lal - Cat-A-Lyst

Orlando (The Marmalade Cat) - series of illustrated children's books written by Kathleen Hale.

Petronius Arbiter - The Door into Summer

Pickles - The Fire Cat

Piedmont - Anna Pigeon novels

Pinkle Purr - in a poem by A. A. Milne

Pinky - Pinky Pye

Pixel - To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Powder - Powder The Cat

Primplepuss - The Cry of the Icemark

Pussycat - The Owl and the Pussycat

Pyewacket - Pyewacket

Rapa - Temple

Ratha - Ratha's Creature

Rhiow, Saash, and Urruah - The Book of Night with Moon

Ribby - The Pie and the Patty Pan

Richard Longtails - The Adventures of Richard Longtails

Richard Parker - Life of Pi

Rumor - The Heritage of Shannara

Sam The Cat Detective - Sam The Cat Mysteries

Sampson - Church Mice series

Saucy Sal - The Emily Series

Selima - Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes

Sheer Khan - The Jungle Book

Silversides – Ragweed

Simpkin - The Tailor of Gloucester

Sinbad - Swallows and Amazons novel

Socks - Socks

Solembum - The Inheritance Cycle

Somber Kitty - The May Bird series

Spiegel - Spiegel the Cat

Spit McGee - My Cat Spit McGee

Squire Julian Gingivere - Redwall

Svartalf - Operation Chaos

Tabby - The Worst Witch

Tao - The Incredible Journey

Tibert the cat - Reynard the Fox

Tigger - All About Rachel: Bras and Broomsticks

Tigerishka - The Wanderer

Tobias - Tim and the Hidden People series

Thomasina- The Three Lives of Thomasina

Tom Kitten - The Tale of Tom Kitten and The Roly Poly Pudding

Throgmorten - The Lives of Christopher Chant

Tuffy - The Diary of a Killer Cat

Tug - The Other Wind

Tycho - Terra Incognita series

The Cats of Ulthar - The Cats of Ulthar

Mr. Underfoot - Friday

Varjak Paw - Varjak Paw

Whiskers - Eternal Champion series.

Whisper - The Wishsong of Shannara

Winkie - Escape to Witch Mountain

Wolsey - The Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures novels

Windrusher - The Windrusher series

You - The Discworld novels