- Dr. Cat
Dr. Cat (born David Shapiro) is president, co-founder, executive producer and creative director of Dragon's Eye Productions. He is best known for creating the MMOG "Furcadia" with game artist Talzhemir. In the game "Furcadia" his character goes by the name "Felorin". He has worked (in various capacities) for Origin, Electronic Arts, Accolade, Microprose, Apogee, and Time Warner Interactive, among others. - Cozmic Cat
Cozmic Cat (born Paula Burrows) is a Canadian DJ who regularly performs in her native country and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She began her work in the Philadelphia area in the mid-1990s, spinning with and opening for artists such as Schoolly D, Jazzy Jeff, Bahamadia, De La Soul, and ?uestlove. In 1999, she was named "DJ on the rise" by the "Philadelphia City Paper". The following year, she was named "Best DJ" by the City Paper, "Philadelphia Magazine", … - Super Cat
Super Cat (born William Maragh in Kingston, Jamaica, 1966) is one of the originators of the late 80's and early 90's dancehall movement. Super Cat is Jamaican of African and Indian descent. His nickname, the "Wild Apache" was given to him by his mentor Early B. His first single as was entitled 'Mr. Walker' and was a hit in Jamaica. - Stalking Cat
Dennis Avner (born in Flint, Michigan August 27, 1958) of Whidbey Island, Washington, United States, is widely known as the "Catman", though he prefers his Native American name, Stalking Cat. Stalking Cat has spent considerable resources to surgically modify his body to resemble that of a tiger. - Samurai Cat
Samurai Cat (aka Miaowara Tomokato) is the main character in a series of books by Mark E. Rogers. In addition to the detailed writing, almost every page in each book has a picture painted by Rogers, depicting the events described on that page. Each chapter is a bizarre parody of some historical or pop culture event, but it is always treated as entirely serious. For example, no one finds it at all unusual that Tomokato is a walking, talking, … - Wild Cat
Wild Cat (c. 1810 - 1857) was a leading Seminole chieftain during the later stages of the Second Seminole War as well as the nephew of Micanopy. Wild Cat was born "Coacoochee" or "Cowacoochee" to King Philip (or Ee-mat-la) in Yulaka, a Seminole village along the St. Johns River in northern Florida around 1810. Wild Cat may have had a twin sister who died at birth and, having been born a twin, … - Louis Wain
Louis Wain (1860-1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings, which consistently featured anthropomorphised large-eyed cats and kittens. In his later years he suffered from schizophrenia, which, according to some psychologists, can be seen in his works. - Mike Stone
Mike Stone is a guitarist for the progressive metal band Queensrÿche. He joined the band for their 2003 "Tribe" tour, and made his first appearance on a studio album on 2006's "Operation: Mindcrime II". In December 1992, Stone joined Criss, the solo project of former KISS drummer Peter Criss. The group toured extensively and released one album, "Cat #1", in August 1994. Stone left the group in December 1995. - B. Kliban
Bernard "Hap" Kliban (b. 1935, d. 1990) was an influential cartoonist born in New York. He studied at the Pratt Institute and spent time painting and travelling in Europe before moving to California and settling in San Anselmo, Marin County. In 1962, Kliban became a Playboy cartoonist, contributing cartoons until his death. He is best-known for the book "Cat", a collection of cartoons about cats drawn in Kliban's distinctive style. - Bob Borden
Bob Borden (Born 1970) is currently a writer for the Late Show with David Letterman. He began as a mailroom intern while attending Kent State University. Letterman soon began using him in various sketches, including "Dave Finds Bob a Date" and "Bob Borden Looks for Urkel." In the ten years since, Borden has held several positions, with the most recent being of Writer's Researcher, before he was promoted to Writer. - John Cunningham
Group Captain 'cappy' John "Cat's Eyes" Cunningham CBE, DSO and two Bars, DFC and Bar, (27 July 1917 - 21 July 2002), was an officer in the Royal Air Force during World War II and a test pilot, both before and after the war. He joined de Havilland Aircraft in 1938 and lived in one of the four blocks of flats across the road from the headquarters building. - James Richards
James Robert Richards was an American veterinarian who was a noted expert on cats. He headed the Feline Health Center of the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine from 1997 until his death. Born in Richmond, Indiana, he grew up in rural Ohio. He earned a math degree from Berea College in 1970 and his veterinary degree from Ohio State University in 1979. He began at Cornell in 1991. - Frank Catalanotto
Frank John Catalanotto (pronounced Ca-ta-lan-na-toe) (born April 27,1974 in Smithtown, New York) is a Major League Baseball outfielder who plays for the Texas Rangers. Nicknamed Little Cat, the Long Island native bats left-handed and throws right-handed. - Caitlin Wachs
Caitlin Elizabeth Wachs (born March 15, 1989) is an American actress who has acted in several films and TV series. Wachs (pronounced "wax") has been nicknamed "Cat" and "Shimmer". She acted alongside Ally Walker and Robert Davi in "Profiler". She played the president's daughter, Rebecca Calloway, on the series "Commander in Chief". Wachs was born in Eugene, Oregon. She lives in Los Angeles, California with her parents, Allan and Patrice Wachs, … - Harry Cooper
Harold Leonard Cooper (born: 13 June 1942), better known as Dr. Harry Cooper or simply Dr. Harry, is an Australian veterinarian, television personality and author. Harry Cooper has worked in veterinary practice in the United Kingdom and Sydney, and in the tradition of vets such as James Herriot has written anecdotal books based on his life in practice. Cooper grew up surrounded by animals. His parents bred dogs, birds and poultry. Dr. - Fred Gallagher
Fred Gallagher (born 1969) is an American illustrator who has become a full-time web cartoonist. He is best known as the artist and co-creator of "Megatokyo" (Gallagher now has full ownership of the property). He also goes by the name of Piro, the main character of "Megatokyo", whom he has stated is an idealized version of himself when he was in college. He does not physically resemble his comic strip counterpart. - Freya North
Freya North (born November 21 1967) is a British author. Her novels centre around strong female characters and their raunchy exploits. One of the precursors of Chick lit, her books have been critical and financial successes. In 1991, she gave up writing her PhD in Art History in order to start writing her first novel "Sally", about a woman embarking on a no-strings erotic affair. - Katsumi
Katsumi (born April 9, 1979 in Paris, France) is a porn star of French/Vietnamese heritage who's known for her anal sex scenes and renowned for her ability to deepthroat as well as manage large penises. Her father is Vietnamese and her mother is French. According to Katsumi's diary at MySpace, she has won 27 awards in both Europe and the U.S. The names of the awards Katsumi won illustrate her great versatility and talent as a porn actress. - Diodorus Siculus
Diodorus Siculus (Greek), ca. 90 BC- ca. 30 BC, was a Greek historian, born at Agyrium in Sicily (now called Agira). Jerome writes that Diodorus flourished in 49 BC ("Chronica", s.a. Abraham 1968); this date is supported by Diodorus' own statements. The earliest date Diodorus mentions is his visit to Egypt in the 180th Olympiad (between 60 and 56 BC). - David Helfgott
David Helfgott (born May 19, 1947) is a controversial Australian pianist. He is as well-known for having schizoaffective disorder as for his piano playing. Helfgott's life inspired the Oscar-winning film "Shine", directed by Scott Hicks and starring Geoffrey Rush and Noah Taylor as Helfgott at different periods of his life. - Caitlin Stasey
Caitlin Jean Stasey is an Australian actress who is best known for her role as Rachel Kinski in "Neighbours". Previously she played Francesca Thomas in "The Sleepover Club". Caitlin began taking an interest in acting/performing at age six. Caitlin made her "Neighbours" début on 18 August 2005. - Cat Mandu
Cat Mandu (Cat-Mandu, Mandu) was a British ginger tabby cat, and pet of politician Howling Laud Hope. He was jointly elected leader of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party with Hope after the death of Screaming Lord Sutch in 1999, and served until his death as a result of a traffic accident in July 2002. He is believed to have been named after the city of Kathmandu in Nepal. - Lisa Mason
Lisa Mason (born 1953) is a writer of science fiction novels. She lives in San Francisco with the artist Tom Robinson and their cats. She is a vegetarian, and has worked as a lawyer. Most of her novels take place in San Francisco, California, either in the future, or in the past through time travel. - John Wick
John Wick is a 20th and 21st century role-playing game designer best known for his creative contributions to the Alderac Entertainment Group properties Legend of the Five Rings and 7th Sea. He self-published Orkworld under the Wicked Press banner, and later co-founded the Wicked Dead Brewing Company with Jared Sorensen. His games under that company include Cat, Schauermärchen, Enemy Gods, and Thirty. - Creme Puff
Creme Puff (August 3, 1967 - August 6, 2005), who died at age 38 years and 3 days, was the oldest cat ever recorded, according to the 2007 edition of Guinness World Records. Creme Puff lived with her owner, Jake Perry, in Austin, Texas, United States. There is however much dispute for who is the oldest cat. There has been reports of cats living well into there 40s, however this is rarely proven and is most considered extremely unlikely. - Margarete Steiff
German toymaker Margarete Steiff (July 24, 1847 - May 9 1909), born in Giengen, started creating toy stuffed animals in 1880 in the town of Giengen an der Brenz, Germany. Margarete was a seamstress and confined to a wheelchair, due to polio she contracted as a baby, she started making stuffed animals as a hobby. These toys began as elephants, which were originally a design Steiff found in a magazine and originally sold as pincushions to her friends. - Louis J. Camuti
Dr. Louis J. Camuti (1894-1981) was a New York City cat veterinarian and author of "All My Patients Are Under The Bed: Memoirs of a Cat Doctor" (1980) and "Park Avenue Vet" (1962). He was the first veterinarian in the United States to devote his entire practice to cats, making housecalls on cats and their people for over sixty years. Former patients and friends honor his pioneering commitment to the health of cats through the Dr. - Ramona Fradon
Ramona Fradon is an American comic book and comic strip artist. Her most noted work was on the DC Comics characters Aquaman, for whom she co-created the sidekick Aqualad, and Metamorpho. In the 1980s and 1990s, Fradon was the artist for the comic strip "Brenda Starr". She was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006. Fradon entered cartooning as young newlywed, when comic-book letterer George Ward, a friend of her husband's, … - Richard Tomlinson
Richard Tomlinson (born 1963) is a New Zealand-born former British MI6 officer who was famously imprisoned in 1997 for breaking the 1989 Official Secrets Act by attempting to publish a book detailing his career in the SIS. He was first approached by MI6 in 1984 after graduating from Cambridge University with a First Class Honours Degree in aeronautical engineering. Not interested in joining the organisation at this point, … - Juliet Clutton-Brock
Juliet Clutton-Brock was a senior research worker in the Mammal Section at The Natural History Museum in London from 1969 until her retirement in 1993, and maintains a position there as a research associate. She has acted as editor of the Journal of Zoology since 1994 and has published more than 90 scientific reports, papers, books and popular articles on archaeozoology and the history of domesticated mammals. - Cathy Davis
Cathy Davis (born c 1959 in Poughkeepsie, New York) is a former female boxer who caused sensation in the sport of boxing during the late 1970s. Her nickname was "Cat". Davis became a household name in the United States by fighting on television many times, in various areas of the country, including Nevada, California, and much of the Northwest. Her only bouts that would ultimately be officially recognized, however, would be five bouts which were held in the Northeast. - Cat Glover
Catherine Vernice Glover, also known as Cat Glover or Cat, is a choreographer and dancer. Originally hit the mainstream audience alongside her dance partner "Pat" in the duo simply known as "Pat & Cat" on the hit amateur talent search show "Star Search" hosted by Ed McMahon of the Tonight Show fame. - Caterina Scorsone
Caterina Scorsone (born October 16, 1981) is a Canadian actress. Scorsone was born in Toronto, Ontario. She is the middle child of 5 in her family. She has two older twin sisters, a younger sister and brother. Francesca Scorsone is Caterina's older sister and also an actress. Caterina attended the Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts in Toronto where she starred in "Oklahoma!" and a several other productions. In addition, she went to Trinity College and, most recently, … - Elizabeth Blackadder
Dame Elizabeth Violet Blackadder, DBE, RA (born 1931) is a Scottish painter and printmaker. She is the first woman to be elected to both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy. Born in Falkirk, she studied at the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh College of Art, where she lectured from 1962 until her retirement in 1986. Her early works are principally landscapes, influenced by her visits to Italy, Greece and Yugoslavia. - Sueellen Ross
Sueellen Ross is an American painter who is most famous for her popular cat and dog paintings. - Caroline Catz
Caroline Catz (born Manchester in 1970), is an English actress, who has starred in films, television programmes, theatre and radio. On deciding to become an actor, she had to change her birth surname from Caplan to Catz as there was already an actress with that name registered at Equity. She came up with Catz after seeing a doodle of a cat, but ironically she is extremely allergic to cats. She has appeared in All Quiet on the Preston Front, The Bill, Peak Practice, … - Donald Roller Wilson
Donald Roller Wilson (born November 23, 1938) is an artist who uses some unique items in his paintings, such as dogs and cats, chimpanzees, dill pickles, wooden matches, olives, asparagus stalks, and even cigarettes. He paints in oils, in a very polished, super-realistic style, using the same techniques used by the Old Masters. He was born in Houston, Texas and is based in Fayetteville, Arkansas. According to the "New York Times", "Donald Roller Wilson's goofy, … - Siné
Maurice Sinet, known as Siné is a French cartoonist. As a young man he studied drawing and graphic arts, earning his life as a cabaret singer. After his military service he starts publishing his drawings and also works as a photo-retoucher for porn magazines.. His first published drawing appeared in "France-Dimanche" in 1952. Siné received the "Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir" in 1955 for his collection "Complainte sans Paroles". - Xia Li
Xia Li is a scientist who works at Monell Chemical Senses Center. She is internationally credited with researching why cats cannot taste sweets. She, along with Dr. Joseph Brand, have concluded that modern cats have lost function in an obsolete taste receptor, therefore no longer allowing them to taste sweets, unlike their prehistoric ancestors. Her accomplishments were featured in the inaugural issue of PLoS Genetics and in the December 2005 issue of Catnip Magazine. - June Harding
June Harding (born 1940) was a child and teen actress who appeared in several 1960s TV shows. She co-starred with Hayley Mills and Rosalind Russell in the Columbia Pictures movie "The Trouble with Angels" (1966), and apparently stopped working in TV/film in 1970. She became a successful artist, with most of her pictures having a cat theme. IMDB link
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