Me, You, and Other Cat People

A cat lover, ailourophile, has good company throughout time.  Here’s a list of people who loved cats from “yesterday, and today.”  Know any?

• Aesop (fabulist)
• St. Agatha (“Santo Gato” or Saint Cat)
• Loni Anderson (Actress)
• Cleveland Amory (author and animal rights activist)
• Charles Baudelaire (French poet)
• Orson Bean (humorist, actor)
• Jeremy Bentham (British pilosopher)
• Ambrose Bierce (writer)
• Otto von Bismarck (German statesman)
• Amanda Black (actress)
• Ray Bradbury (science fiction author)
• Anne Bronte (British writer)
• Charlotte Bronte British writer)
• Emily Bronte (British writer)
• Samuel Butler (British writer)
• Lord Byron (British poet)
• Karle Capek (Czechoslovakiann playwright)
• Roger Caras (author, brodcaster)
• Claudia Cardinale (Italian film actress)
• Thomas Carlyle (Scottish writer, historian)
• Lewis Carroll (British writer)
• Raymond Chandler (detective novelist)
• Vicomte de Chateaubriand (Grench writer, politican)
• Lord Chesterfield (British statesman)
• Sir Winston Churchill (British prime minister)
• Georges Clemenceau (French prime minister)
• Jean Cocteau (French writer)
• Colette (French writer)
• Confucius (Chinese religious leader)
• Robin Cook (writer)
• Calvin Coolidge (U.S. President)
• Gustave Courbet (French artist)
• William Cowper (British writer, hymnologist)
• Countee Cullen (poet)
• Sandy Dennis (actess)
• Bo Derek (actress)
• Benjamin Disraeli (British politician)
• Alexander Dumas (British politican)
• Albrt Einstein (physicist)
• T.S. Elliot (writer)
• Erte (designer)
• Sophia Loren (Italian actress)
• Ernest Hemingway (writer)
• Me
• You

Obviously, this list was compiled by someone other than me.  Must have known a lot of foreign famous people.  Just shows you cats are loved worldwide.

-the cat’s meow…”Meow About Your Cat!”