• Pangur Ban - The cat who inspired an 8th (or 9th) century Irish monk to write a poem.
• Pascal - Anatole France.
• Patapan - Horace Walpole.
• Patrocle - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.
• Patsy - Charles Lindbergh's cat who often went flying with him.
• Pattipaws or Pettipaws - T.S. Eliot.
• Perruque - Cardinal Richelieu. As a kitten, she fell at Richelieu's feet from the wig ("perruque") of an academic named Racan.
• Persian Snow - Erasmus Darwin.
• Petiteu - Colette.
• Pilar - Ernest Hemingway.
• Pinichette - Colette.
• Pippo - Compton MacKenzie; one of many pet cats.
• Pixel or Pixie - Evan Dorkin & Sarah Dyer.
• Polar Bear - A white cat adopted by writer and animal activist Cleveland Amory, and featured in The Cat Who Came for Christmas, The Cat and the Curmudgeon and The Best Cat Ever
• Pony Boy - Abyssinian belonging to Richard Patrick.
• Poo Jones - Vivian Leigh.
• Popcorn - Edward Djerejian.
• Poppet - Joe Namath.
• Poppy - A tabby & white belonging to Sally Gunnell.
• Princess Sophie Louise of Sweden - A long-haired tabby belonging to John Spencer Churchill.
• Procope - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.
• Prudence - A blue Persian belonging to President Georges Clemenceau of France.
• Pudlenka - Karel Capek. She had three cats named Pudlenka; Pudlenka 1 appeared on Capek's doorstep the day his tomcat died, had 26 kittens in her lifetime; Pudlenka 2 had 21.
• Pulcheria - Robert Southey.
• Pulcinella - Domenico Scarlatti; inspired The Cat's Fugue as she liked to walk up & down his keyboards.
• Punky - Doris Day; one of more than ten that she rescued.
• Purdoe - Samuel Butler.
• Pyewacket - Kim Novak; starred with her in "Bell Book and Candle".
• Pyrame - Cardinal Richelieu. He & Thisbe were named after the mythological lovers because they slept together with paws intertwined.

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