Cat lovers are found among great scientists and inventors, artists and writers, humanitarians, musicians, military and political leaders, actors and actresses, and other accomplished individuals. Famous ailurophiles include:
Abraham Lincoln
Alexander Dumas
Amy Carter (daughter of Jimmy Carter)
Anatole France
Art Bell
Beatrix Potter
Bill Clinton
Brigitte Bardot
Cardinal Richelieu
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Dickens
Claude Monet
Dr. Albert Schweitzer
Dr. Erasmus Drawin
Dr. Samuel Johnson
Edgar Allen Poe
Edward Lear
Ernest Hemingway
Florence Nightingale
Francesco Petrarch
Frank Zappa
Frédéric Chopin
Freddy Mercury
General Robert E. Lee
George Bush
Halle Berry
Henry James
Harriet Beecher Stowe
H.G. Wells
H.H. Monro
Honore de Balzac
Horace Walpole
Ian Anderson
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau
Jeremy Bentham
Joe Namath
John Lennon
John Ritter
Kate Beckinsale
Lenin
Leonardo da Vinci
Lewis Carroll
Lord Byron
Mark Twain
Maurice Ravel
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Nicola Tesla
Nostradamus
Patrick Stewart
Paul Gallico
Petrarch
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Leo XII
Prophet Muhammed
Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Raymond Chandler
Robert Heinlein
Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel Butler
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Winston Churchill
St. Agatha
St. Francis of Assisi
St. Gregory the Great
St. Ives
St. Jerome
Stephen Harper
Stravinsky
The Bronte sisters
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Hardy
T.S. Elliot
Vanna White
Victor Hugo
W.B. Yeats
William Wordsworth
William S. Burroughs
See Famous Cat Lovers for profiles of and quotes from a few notable ailurophiles.
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