123 celebrated ailurophiles (cat lovers)

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Here are 123 celebrity ailurophiles. That long word means cat lover as you probably know. Ailurophilia is a derivative and means the love of cats. Many famous people especially authors can be described as genuine ailurophiles.

The great James Mason and his Siamese cat
The great James Mason and his Siamese cat. Image: MikeB based on image in the public domain.

“You haven’t lived until you have lived with a cat” – Doris Day

Brian Aldiss (1) to Emile Zola (41) were authors. From Mathew Arnold (42) to William Butler Yeats (54), they were poets. From Ingres (55) to Whistler (64), they were artists. From Jimmy Carter (65) to Wolsey (90), they were heads of state. From Borodin (91) to Lloyd Webber (95), they were composers and musicians. Bentham (96) was a philosopher. From Darwin (97) to Newton (100), they were scientists. Nightingale (101) and Schweitzer (102) were humanitarians. Bruno (103) to Simpson (105) were sportspersons. From Ann-Margaret (106) to Zeffirelli (123) they were actors and directors.

The info. is accurate at the date of the article. People die and some of the dates will be incorrect one day.

  1. Brian Aldiss (1925-2017)
  2. Kingsley Amis (1922-1995)
  3. Honore de Balzac (1799-1815)
  4. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
  5. Charlotte Brontë (1818-1848)
  6. Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
  7. Lord Byron (1788-1824)
  8. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
  9. Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)
  10. Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
  11. Colette (1873-1854)
  12. Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
  13. Alexander Dumas (1824-1895)
  14. Anatole France (1844-924)
  15. Anne Frank (1929-9045)
  16. Thomas Hardy (1840-928)
  17. Ernest Hemingway (1899-961)
  18. Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
  19. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
  20. Henry James (1843-1916)
  21. Jerome K Jerome (1859-923)
  22. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
  23. Michael Joseph (1897-1958)
  24. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
  25. Doris Lessing (1990-2013)
  26. Bernard Levin (1928-2004)
  27. Compton Mackenzie (1893-1972)
  28. Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)
  29. Beverley Nichols (1898-1983)
  30. Edgar Allen Poe (1811-1849)
  31. George Sand (1804-1876)
  32. Dorothy L Sayers (1893-1958)
  33. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
  34. Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)
  35. Sir Roy Strong (1935-)
  36. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
  37. Mark Twain (1835-1910)
  38. Horace Walpole (1717-1797)
  39. HG Wells (1866-1946)
  40. Sir Angus Wilson (1913-1991)
  41. Emile Zola (1814-1902)
  42. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
  43. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
  44. William Cowper (1731-1800)
  45. Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972)
  46. TS Eliot (1888-1965)
  47. John Keats (1795-1821)
  48. Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
  49. Percy Shelley (1792-1822)
  50. Robert Southey (7074-1843)
  51. Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)
  52. Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1815-1919)
  53. William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
  54. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
  55. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
  56. Paul Klee (1879-1940)
  57. Edward Lear (1812-1888)
  58. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
  59. Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
  60. Henri Matisse (1869-1953)
  61. Pablo Picasso (1881-973)
  62. Ruskin Spear (1911-1990)
  63. Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
  64. James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
  65. US Pres Jimmy Carter (1924-)
  66. King Charles I (1600-1649)
  67. Emperor Chu Hou-Tsung (1507-1566)
  68. Sir Winston Churchill (1874-965)
  69. French Pres George Clemenceau (1841-1929)
  70. US Pres Bill Clinton (1946-)
  71. US Pres Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
  72. King Edward VII (1841-1910)
  73. US Pres Gerald Ford (1913-2006)
  74. Pope Gregory I (540-604)
  75. US Pres Rutherford B Hayes (1822-1893)
  76. German Pres Paul von Hindenberg (1847-1934)
  77. Emperor Ichijo, ruler of Japan (986-1011)
  78. US Pres John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
  79. Pope Leo XII (1716-1829)
  80. US Pres Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
  81. Louise XIII of France (1601-1643)
  82. Louis XV of France (1710-1774)
  83. The Prophet Muhammad (570-632)
  84. Pope Pius IX (1792-1878)
  85. US president Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
  86. Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642)
  87. US Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1859-1919)
  88. Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
  89. Prime Minister Harold Wilson (1916-1995)
  90. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1471-1530)
  91. Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
  92. Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
  93. Jean Michel Jarre (1948-)
  94. Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
  95. Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948-)
  96. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
  97. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)
  98. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
  99. Thomas Huxley (1825-895)
  100. Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
  101. Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
  102. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
  103. Frank Bruno (1961-)
  104. Sally Gunnell (1966-)
  105. O.J. Simpson (1947-)
  106. Ann-Margaret (1941-)
  107. Fred Astaire (1899-1987)
  108. Tallulah Bankhead (1903-1968)
  109. Brigitte Bardot (1935-)
  110. Kim Basinger (1953-)
  111. Warren Beatty (1937-)
  112. Doris Day (1924-2019)
  113. Melanie Griffith (1957-)
  114. Van Heflin (1910-1971)
  115. Charles Lawton (1889-1962)
  116. Janet Leigh (1927-2004)
  117. Vivian Leigh (1913-1967)
  118. James Mason (1909-1984)
  119. Robert De Niro (1943-)
  120. Beryl Reid (1920-1996)
  121. Edward G Robinson (1893-1973)
  122. Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011)
  123. Franco Zeffirelli (1923-2019)
A young Elizabeth Taylor and a kitten
A young Elizabeth Taylor and a kitten. Image: MikeB based on an image in the public domain.

“There are two ways to escape human misery, playing the organ and watching cats play” – Albert Schweitzer (a great man).

Below are some more articles on celebrities and cats.

My thanks to Desmond Morris for this list.

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