Cetaceans are the animals commonly known as whales, dolphins, and porpoises. This list includes individuals from real life or fiction, where fictional individuals are indicated by their source. It is arranged roughly taxonomically.

Baleen whales

Rorquals

• 52-hertz whale (may be a blue whale hybrid)[1]

Blue whales

• KOBO

Fin whales

• Moby Joe, a fin whale who became trapped in Newfoundland, the subject of Farley Mowat's 1972 book A Whale for the Killing.[2]

Humpback whales

• Delta and Dawn
• George and Gracie from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• Humphrey the Whale
• Migaloo
• The Montreal whale[3][4]
• Mister Splashy Pants
• Tay Whale

Gray whales

• Bonnet, Crossbeak, and Bone or Putu, Siku, and Kanik (in Inupiaq),[5] or Fred, Wilma, and Bamm-Bamm in the book Big Miracle and film adaptation
• Klamath River Whales [6]

Toothed whales

Beaked whales

Northern Bottlenose Whales

The River Thames whale being calmed by rescuers

• River Thames whale

Dolphins

• Delphinus from Greek mythology
• Ivan and Bessie from the 1967 novel The Day of the Dolphin or Alpha and Beta in the 1973 film adaptation
• Slim and Delbert from the TV series Dolphin Cove
• Snorky from the Night of the Dolphin segment of The Simpsons 2000 episode "Treehouse of Horror XI"
• The dolphin from the fairy tale The Dolphin
• Zoom from the anime series Zoom the White Dolphin

Bottlenose dolphins

• Akeakamai, featured in the novel Startide Rising
• Davina
• Ecco from the video game series Ecco the Dolphin
• Fungie
• Flipper from the 1963 film of the same name and later film and television series in the same franchise
• Hiapo
• Hope, featured in the film Dolphin Tale 2
• Mitzie, who portrayed Flipper[7]
• Moko
• Opo
• Peter, used in experiments in human-dolphin communication by John C. Lilly and Margaret Howe Lovatt[8]
• Pinky
• Tião
• Winter, featured in the film Dolphin Tale

Orcas

• Chimo
• Corky (II)
• Ethelbert
• Granny
• Hoi Wai, who portrayed Neptune in the film Moon Warriors
• Iceberg
• Jambu or Willzyx from the episode "Free Willzyx" of the TV series South Park
• Kalina
• Kanduke
• Kasatka
• Katina

• Keet
• Keto
• Keiko, who portrayed Willy in the film Free Willy
• Klee Wyck, the anthropomorphic mascot of the 1994 Commonwealth Games
• Kohana
• Kotar
• Lolita
• Luna
• Malia
• Moby Doll
• Morgan

• Namu, featured in the film Namu, the Killer Whale
• Neptune from the film Moon Warriors
• Ocean Sun (L25) ^{[citation needed]}
• Old Thom
• Old Tom
• Port and Starboard
• Ramu III
• Samoa
• Scarlet

• Shamu
• Springer
• Tahlequah
• Takara
• The orca from the 1977 film Orca
• Tico from the anime series Tico of the Seven Seas
• Tilikum
• Ulises
• Unna
• Walter the Whale
• Wikie
• Willy from the film Free Willy and television adaptation

Risso's dolphins

• Pelorus Jack

Sperm whales

• Little Irvy
• Moby Dick from the novel Moby-Dick
• Mocha Dick
• Monstro from Pinocchio[9]
• Pearl Krabs from SpongeBob SquarePants
• Porphyrios
• The sperm whale from the book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and later adaptations
• Timor Tom from Moby-Dick, chapter 45

Belugas

• Baby Beluga from the music album of the same name
• Benny
• Hvaldimir
• Kayavak
• Moby Dick (Rhine)
• NOC

Legendary

Because these individuals are legendary or mythic, their classification is unclear. As well, for some it is unclear whether they are even whales since whales were historically considered fish in Western culture.[10]

Jonah in the jaws of the whale

• Cetus from Greek mythology
• Devil Whale from legends such as the First Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor
• Leviathan from Abrahamic mythology
• Makara from Hindu mythology (possibly a South Asian river dolphin)
• Rongomai from Māori mythology
• Tannin from Canaanite, Phoenician, and Hebrew mythology
• The whale who saved Kahutia-te-rangi in Māori mythology (usually considered to be a humpback whale - paikea - a name Kahutia-te-rangi would adopt himself)[11][12]
• The whale from the Book of Jonah

See also

• Dolphin § In history and religion
• Killer whales in popular culture
• List of captive killer whales
• List of cetaceans
• Military marine mammal
• Whale § In myth, literature and art

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