Which cats do you know about?

Socks (23 March 1989 – February 20, 2009), the pet cat of U.S. President Bill Clinton's family during his presidency

Smudge (died 2000), the feline that became a minor celebrity in Glasgow

Simon (28 June 1947 -28 November 1949), the ship's cat who served on the Royal Navy sloop HMS Amethyst

Orangey, a red tabby cat, the talented animal actor owned and trained by the well-known cinematic animal handler Frank Inn

Lewis, the name of a cat from Fairfield, Connecticut who garnered mass media attention for being placed under house arrest in March 2006

India "Willie" Bush (ca. 1990 - January 4, 2009), the black cat owned by former U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush

Trim, the ship's cat that accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyages to circumnavigate and map the coastline of Australia in 1801-03

CC, for "Carbon Copy" (born December 22, 2001), the brown tabby and white domestic shorthair and the first cloned pet

Fred the Undercover Kitty, the domestic shorthaired cat who gained fame for his undercover work with the New York Police Department and the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office in the arrest of a suspect posing as a veterinary care provider

Tama, the calico cat who is the station master and operating officer at Kishi Station in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Humphrey (c. 1988 - March 2006), the cat employed as the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office at 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from October 1989 to 13 November 1997

Room 8 was a neighborhood cat that wandered into a classroom at Elysian Heights Elementary School, Echo Park, California. He would live in the school during the school year and then disappear for the summer, returning when classes started again.

Sunny, a cat owned by Jon Coe

Pixie, a cat owned by Jon Coe

Oliver (the Norwegian Forest Cat belonging to Benjamin Scott)

Jasper (the domestic cat belonging to Benjamin Scott)

Gravity Cat (is never happy)

Clarence (a cat, owned by my neighbour who is a plumber.)

Little Nicky (born October 17, 2004), the first commercially-produced cat clone

Newt (the cat belonging to Daniel Ramsay)

Oscar (born 2005), the therapy cat in a Rhode Island hospice who was featured in the New England Journal of Medicine for his purported ability to predict the impending death of terminally ill patients

Bubbles (the tortoiseshell and white cat owned by Jonathan Gough)

Peter, the Lord's cat (1950 - 5 November 1964), also known as The Marylebone mog, the cat who lived at Lord's Cricket Ground in London from 1952 to 1964