List of individual cetaceans

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

• The 52-hertz whale (may be a blue whale hybrid)

Blue whales

• Hope
• 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

Humpback whales

• Delta and Dawn
• George and Gracie from '
• Humphrey the Whale
• Migaloo
• The whale that swam up the Saint Lawrence River to Montreal in 2020
• Mister Splashy Pants
• Sasha, also known as the Alaska whale
• The Tay Whale

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

• River Thames whale

• 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
• Jones from the William Gibson short story Johnny Mnemonic
• 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

• 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
• Moko
• Opo
• Peter, used in experiments in human-dolphin communication by John C. Lilly and Margaret Howe Lovatt
• Pinky
• Ronnie from the television series
• Tião
• Winter, featured in the film Dolphin Tale

• Brave Little Hunter ( in Nuu-chah-nulth)
• Camus from the episode "Moby Dopes" of the TV series The Angry Beavers
• 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
• Kiska, orca housed at Marineland and last captive orca kept in Canada
• 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)
• 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, known for his involvement in the deaths of three people; heavily featured in the documentary Blackfish
• Ulises
• Unna
• Walter the Whale
• Wikie
• Willy from the film Free Willy and television adaptation

• Casper, an albino or leucistic Risso's dolphin inhabiting Monterey Bay, California
• Pelorus Jack

• The exploding whale of Florence, Oregon
• Little Irvy
• Moby Dick from the 1851 novel Moby-Dick
• Mocha Dick
• Monstro from Pinocchio
• New Zealand Tom, recorded in the 1830s as hunted in 1804 off the coast of New Zealand, and subsequently mentioned in Melville's discussion of sperm whales in Moby Dick (Chapter 45: "The Affidavit").
• Pearl Krabs from SpongeBob SquarePants
• Porphyrios (species uncertain), a large whale that harassed and sank ships in the waters near Constantinople in the sixth century
• The sperm whale from the book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and later adaptations
• Timor Tom from Moby-Dick, chapter 45

• Baby Beluga from the music album of the same name
• Bailey from the 2016 Pixar film Finding Dory
• Benny
• Hvaldimir
• Kayavak
• Moby Dick (Rhine)
• NOC

• 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 whalea name Kahutia-te-rangi would adopt himself)
• The whale from the Book of Jonah