List of fictional catpeople

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The following is a list of fictional catpeople, typically referred to as catgirls or catboys, characters with cat traits, such as cat ears, a cat tail, or other feline characteristics on an otherwise human body.

Wikipe-tan, an unofficial anthropomorphism of Wikipedia, as a catgirl

The list excludes humans who dress in cat costumes or otherwise identify as catpeople, anthropomorphic cats (e.g. Hello Kitty, Top Cat, The Cat in the Hat), and characters that fully transform between cat and human and not some in-between stage. It may include characters that wear a cat-themed costume, but only if there is strong recognition as a catgirl or catboy by news sources, as with Catwoman. For franchise characters, they are listed by their originating media, with ones in manga and anime listed separately from television and film.

In anime and manga

Character(s)	Origin	Notes	Ref
Felix/Ferris Argyle	Re:Zero	Crusch's knight and member of the Royal Guard, who is skilled in Water Magic, which includes healing, and refuses to use a sword. Despite having a feminine and cat-like appearance, Felix is a male.	[1]
Blair	Soul Eater	A black cat with exceptionally strong magic powers, including the power to transform into a young, alluring human woman among other spells, such as conjuring pumpkin-shaped explosions and summoning a giant flying pumpkin for transportation.	[2]
Cat girl ninja	A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof	A ninja, and catgirl, who plans on murder Satoko but killed off in the middle of her transformation sequence.	[3]
Cheshire Cat	Pandora Hearts	A chain that lives in a dimension created from Alice's memories. He resembles a human form of the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland. Cheshire was actually Alice's pet cat from 100 years ago. The bell around his neck is the 'truth' from 100 years ago, later taken by Break. The Cheshire cat is a unique chain in that he doesn't need a contractor in order to leave the Abyss (since his residence isn't in the Abyss in the first place).	[1]
Yuni/Cure Cosmo	Star Twinkle PreCure	A shapeshifting catgirl from Planet Rainbow, whose people were turned to stone as a result of Aiwarn's experiments. Her actual age is unknown because she uses many forms. She uses a perfume to assist with shapeshifting, but regardless of form she still has her ears and tail.	[4]
The Caitan race	Cat Planet Cuties	An alien race. They look and speak just like humans, except they have cat ears and tails.	[5][6]
Dejiko	Di Gi Charat	Dejiko is a princess of a planet that is also called Di Gi Charat and she is also depicted as a catgirl which is highlighted by her ending each sentence with the cat sound 'nyo'.	[5][7]
Fran	Reincarnated as a Sword	A 12-year-old Black Cat girl who fights with a powerful, legendary sword.	[8][9][10]
Izutsumi	Delicious in Dungeon	A young tallman catgirl who was kidnapped and turned into a beast-man when she was six years old. She shares her form with the essence of a Big Cat, a monster resembling a large cat.	[11]
Josette	From Bureaucrat to Villainess	A cat girl and apprentice maid at Grace's household. She at first fears Grace due to her cruelty, but starts to warm up to her after seeing her personality change.	[12][13]
Kyaru	Princess Connect! Re:Dive	A catgirl and magic-user who can control monsters, and later joins the Gourmet Guild. She also appeared in the video game series of the same name.	[5][14]
Leone	Akame ga Kill!	An assassin with short blonde hair and a voluptuous chest for Night Raid for whom gathers intelligence and corroborates the mission requests.	[15]
Mathilde	From Bureaucrat to Villainess	A cat girl maid who works for Grace. She can wield fire magic.	[16]
Ichigo Momomiya	Tokyo Mew Mew	Series protagonist who transforms from a normal schoolgirl into a catgirl.	[17][18]
Neferpitou	Hunter x Hunter	A kemonomimi-themed Chimera Ant and the firstborn of the Royal Guards. Pitou is one of the first Chimera Ants to fully utilize Nen with enough skill to be recognized by even Netero as a superior combatant.	[19]
Nekos race	Nekopara	This is a race of catgirls who are still pets but can go on their own if they wear bells and pass a special training regimen. This includes protagonists Chocola, Vanilla, Maple, Cinnamon, Aazuki, and Coconut, among others. These characters also appear in a visual novel of the same name.	[20][5]
Himari Noihara	Omamori Himari	Himari is a bakeneko, a shapeshifting demon cat, and the female protagonist of the series. She is known to other ayakashi as the Crimson Blade of Noihara (野井原の緋剣, Noihara no Hiken) due to her expert swordsmanship, and refers to herself as the "sword that protects" (護り刀, mamorigatana) Yuto.	[21][22][23]
Panther Devas	Inuyasha	Consists of Tōran, Karan, Shunran, and Shūran from Inuyasha episode 75.	[24]
Pondeli	I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level	An undead catgirl who died 40 years ago after she became so lazy from boredom that she forgot to even feed herself. After rising from death, she became a graveyard security guard, but felt lonely without anyone keeping her company. When she doesn’t want to go to the Demon Realm, Azusa solves the problem by suggesting to Beelzebub that Pondeli is made a demon casino gambler in the Demon Realm, since the catgirl is wickedly good at playing cards.	[25]
Puma Sisters	Dominion: Tank Police	Also known as AnnaPuma and UniPuma, they somewhat resemble Pris Stratton, a protagonist of Blade Runner.	[26]
Natsuki Sasahara	Hyper Police	Half-human half-nekomata who was born to a cat-demon mother and a normal human father.	[27][28]
Schrödinger (Hellsing)	Hellsing	Resembling a young, teenage blond boy in a Hitler Youth uniform with cat ears and a perpetual smirk, Schrödinger shares The Major's love for war and bloodshed while serving mainly as his envoy for Millennium.	[1]
Kyo Soma	Fruits Basket	He is cursed by the cat, an animal not in the Chinese zodiac, but which legend says would have been if it had not been tricked by the Rat into missing the induction feast.	[29]
Sailor Tin Nyanko	Sailor Moon	The Materials Collection states she has several cat traits including her eyes, her nine lives, mouth, etc.	[30]
Koneko Toujou/Shirone	High School DxD	A white-haired two-tailed humanoid nekomata raised by a devil, Shirone (白音) has to witness her master being killed in self-defense at the hands of Kuroka, who becomes a stray devil.	[31]
Ikuto Tsukiyomi	Shugo Chara!	A teenage boy in high school, contracted by Easter to find the Embryo. Yoru is Ikuto's cat-like Guardian Character and represents Ikuto's desire to be free. When Ikuto and Yoru undergo a character transformation, they become Black Lynx.	[1]
Yoruichi Shihōin	Bleach	She is a slim, dark-skinned woman with deep-violet hair. She can also transform into a black cat and back at will. Her cat form gives her a deep voice, which leads many characters to initially believe she is a male and thus call her "Mr. Yoruichi"	[2]

In animation

Character(s)	Origin	Notes	Ref
Blake Belladonna	RWBY	A character of the Faunus race and a huntress who attends Beacon Academy. She later becomes Yang Xiao Long's girlfriend in the ninth volume of RWBY	[32][33]
	RWBY: Ice Queendom		[34]
Catra	She-Ra: Princess of Power	A Force-Captain of Hordak's Evil Horde who has minor sorcery abilities, possessing a magical mask, which when slid over her face gives the ability to transform into a purple panther-like beast, also showing telepathic control over all cats.	[35][36]
	She-Ra and the Princesses of Power	A Force-Captain of Hordak's Evil Horde who has cat-like features of her own, including a tail, large furry ears, a mane, and claws. She is a far more complex figure than the original series, serving as an antagonist before ultimately redeeming herself and becoming Adora's girlfriend.	[37][38][39]
M'Ress	Star Trek: The Animated Series	A Caitian communications officer who served on the USS Enterprise under command of James T. Kirk.	[40]
Olive	High Guardian Spice	A catgirl working for the Triumvirate and a skilled assassin, with a cat friend named Kino. She later helps the protagonists fight Mandrake. She is based on the series creator's cat of the same name, as is her cat friend.	[41][42]
T'Ana	Star Trek: Lower Decks	Caitian doctor and head of medical team aboard the USS Cerritos/	[43]
Ortensia the Cat	Mickey Mouse universe	Girlfriend of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, appearing in the Oswald shorts starting with The Banker's Daughter (1927; Lost cartoon), replacing Oswald's former love interest, a much more feminine and sultry rabbit named Fanny in production materials.	[44]
ThunderCats	ThunderCats	An alien race of feline humanoids, including Lion-O, Panthro, Cheetara, Tygra, and Snarf	[45]
	ThunderCats (reboot)
	ThunderCats Roar

In literature and comics

Character(s)	Origin	Notes	Ref
C'Mell	"The Ballad of Lost C'Mell"	Appearing in this 1962 science-fiction short story, C'Mell is a woman created from cat DNA.	[46]
Catreece	Reality Check!	Protagonist who takes the form of a catgirl when she is connected to VIS via the TVR helmet. Since she has at least near-human intelligence and can communicate with humans through ordinary speech in the online worlds, she is effectively a technologically enabled werecat, albeit one which started as a cat rather than human.	[47]
Catwoman	DC Comics	A villain who dresses in a cat-suit and is recognized as a catgirl.	[48]
Cheetah	DC Comics	an enemy of the DC Comics hero Wonder Woman, who is part-cat and part woman beast.	[49]
Kitrina Falcone	DC universe	The main DC universe Catgirl and a protégée of Catwoman.	[50]
Carrie Kelley	DC Comics	Superheroine who also adopts the Catgirl moniker.	[51]
Nyara	Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar book series	A human who was transformed into a catgirl by her father's magical experiments	[52]
Pandora	Pandora's Tale	She is a trans woman who imprinted on Isabelle Monday, another trans woman who became her mentor and guardian.	[53][54]
Pururin	Welcome to the N.H.K.	A catgirl named Puru Puru Pururin a show-within-a-show in the novel.	[55]
Tigra	Marvel Comics	A feline hero with superpowers and wielder of gadgets, which she used to fight crime.	[56]
(Unnamed)	Venus and the Cat	An ancient story famously reflected Jean de La Fontaine's fable "The cat changed into a woman", has a catgirl protagonist. She is usually a cat turned into a normal-looking woman but retaining feline character.	[citation needed]

In film

Character(s)	Origin	Notes	Ref
Baron Humbert von Gikkingen	The Cat Returns	A cat figure in this 2002 film, who originally appeared in Whisper of the Heart, who given life by the work of his artist, who travels to the Cat Kingdom with Haru Yoshioka.	[57][58][59][60]
Kitty	Monkeybone	Played by Rose McGowan in this 2001 film, she is a catgirl waitress who protagonist Stuart "Stu" Miley befriends.	[61]
Tigris Snow	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2	Appearing throughout the Hunger Games franchise, including in the books Mockingjay and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, she is a former Hunger Games stylist who later works in a small shop specializing in fur-trimmed underwear in the Capitol. Her face has been altered into a "semi-feline mask" through many surgical operations.	[62][63]
	The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

In live-action television series

Character(s)	Origin	Notes	Ref
Alek Petrov	The Nine Lives of Chloe King	One of the descendants of the Mai race and Jasmine's cousin who reveals himself to Chloe to protect her.	[64]
Jasmine	The Nine Lives of Chloe King	One of the descendants of the Mai race who seeks to protect Chloe, the savior of their race.	[64]
Chloe King	The Nine Lives of Chloe King	Part of the Mai, an ancient cat-like race descended from Bast, believed to be the savior of the Mai race, with extra abilities and the gift of nine lives, making her a warrior in a prophecy that states that she must save the world and both the Mai and Human races, and stop their war.	[64]
Dr. Katherine "Kat" Manx	Power Rangers S.P.D.	Played by Michelle Langstone, she is a feline alien, close friend of Doggie Cruger, and S.P.D.'s chief technologist.	[65]
Valentina	The Nine Lives of Chloe King	Jasmine's mother, and the leader of all the Mai in San Francisco.	[64]

In video games

Character(s)	Origin	Notes	Ref
Diona	Genshin Impact	A bartender who is of the Kätzlein race from this 2020 RPG.	[66]
Felicia	Darkstalkers franchise	Also known as Ferishia, this catgirl dreams of being a famous singer and dancer in Las Vegas. She eventually runs an orphanage, as a nun.	[46][17][67]
Kirara	Genshin Impact	A two-tailed nekomata who works as a courier at Komaniya Express.	[68]
Miqo'te race	Final Fantasy XIV	They are a race with bestial traits, but can be male or female, unlike the Mithra race.	[69]
Mithra race	Final Fantasy XI	A race of hunters who live alongside the Tarutaru in Windurst and known for their energy, curiosity, and their penchant for causing playful mischief. Due to a gender imbalance in their race males are a rarity, and so only female mithra leave the home, making females the only playable gender.	[70]

See also

• Anime and manga portal

• List of fictional felines