This annotated list of individual monkeys includes monkeys who are in some way famous or notable. The list does not include notable apes, or fictional primates.

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Monkey actors

• Binx - (white-headed capuchin) Appeared in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, George of the Jungle, and Bruce Almighty.
• Govi - (capuchin) Played Sophocles in the 1993-1994 sitcom Monkey Please, Sophocles! that aired in Azerbaijan as a satire of the political climate in the country at the time.[1]
• Betsy
• Finster - (brown capuchin) Played Harvey Keitel's pet thief, Dodger, in the 1994 film Monkey Trouble.
• Crystal - (brown capuchin) Played in The Hangover Part II, Night at the Museum, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb and as "Annie's Boobs" in Community.
• Boo - (brown capuchin) Played Ella in the 1988 movie Monkey Shines.

Monkeys used in experiments

• Able - (rhesus macaque) and Baker - (peruvian squirrel monkey), both female, the first monkeys sent into space to survive the experience. They were launched on 28 May 1959 in the nose cone of a Jupiter AM-18 missile as a test of NASA's launch facilities at Cape Canaveral and procedures for retrieving astronauts after splashdown. Miss Able died a few months after the mission, but Miss Baker lived another 25 years.[2]
• Albert II - (rhesus monkey) the first primate and first mammal in space, June 14, 1949. Died upon hitting the ground due to a parachute failure
• ANDi - (rhesus monkey) the first genetic modified rhesus monkey, born at the Oregon Health & Science University
• Britches - (stump-tailed macaque) removed from his mother at birth, Britches was left alone with his eyes sewn shut as part of a study into blindness. He was rescued by the Animal Liberation Front, which publicized the condition he was found in, and the experiment was shut down.
• Gordo (also known as "Old Reliable") - (squirrel monkey) He was launched in the US Jupiter AM-13 Rocket in 1958, but was lost after a technical failure at the end of the mission.
• Hellion - (capuchin) trained by Mary Joan Willard to assist disabled people, was the first trainee to be placed. In 1979, Hellion started assisting a quadriplegic, Robert Foster, with chores and general assistance.[3]
• Miss Sam - (rhesus macaque) sent into space under the Little Joe program in 1960.[4]
• Semos - a nine-year-old male rhesus macaque at the Oregon National Primate Research Center who supplied the skin cells from which scientists were able to successfully derive embryonic stem cells.[5]
• Tetra - a rhesus macaque at the Oregon National Primate Research Center who was the first cloned primate, created through splitting.[6]

Other

• Fred, euthanized in March 2011. Fred had a reputation for stealing food anywhere he could, but when he turned too aggressive, he was caught and controversially euthanized.
• Jacco Macacco, was a fighting ape or monkey who was exhibited in monkey-baiting matches at the Westminster Pit in London in the early 1820s.
• Jack, known as Jack the Signalman .[7] This baboon was reputed to have become an expert at working the railroad signals for the Cape Government Railway.
• Loon, lived at the San Diego Zoo and was trained to accept blood draws and insulin injections to treat his diabetes.
• Maggie the Monkey, a crab-eating macaque who predicted the results of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
• Ramu, arrested and kept behind bars in India for 5 years on the charge of disturbing communal harmony. At the age of three, while under the care of a family, Ramu attacked some children. This sparked communal riots in the Jagannathpur village, ultimately leading to Ramu's arrest.

See also

• List of fictional primates
• List of individual apes
• Monkeys and apes in space

References