Cats and their owners:

• Hodge: Samuel Johnson, British writer and lexicographer
• Selima: Horace Walpole, British writer and historian
• Langbourne: Jeremy Bentham, British writer, reformer, and philosopher
• Old Foss: Edward Lear, British poet and humorist
• Siam: Rutherford B. Hayes, American president
• Appolinaris, Beelzebub, Blatherskaite, Buffalo Bill: Mark Twain, American author
• Bismarck: Florence Nightingale, British nurse
• Cobby: Thomas Hardy, British writer
• Chess, Checkmate: Alexander Alekhine, Russian-French chess player
• Taki: Raymond Chandler, American novelist
• Jellylorum, George Pushdragon: T.S. Eliot, American-born British critic and writer
• Blackie, Jock, Nelson, Tango: Winston Churchill, British politician and writer
• Beppo: Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian writer
• Gujarat: John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-born American economist, writer, and diplomat
• Fuckchop: Trent Reznor, leader, Nine Inch Nails