List of individual cetaceans

Dawn the humpback whale in the Sacramento River in 2007

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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Baleen whales

See also: Baleen whale

Rorquals

See also: Rorquals

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

Blue whales

See also: Blue whale

KOBO

• The Blue Whale from the 2003 Pixar film Finding Nemo
• KOBO

Fin whales

See also: Fin whale

• 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

See also: Humpback whale

• 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

See also: Gray whale

• 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

See also: Toothed whale

Beaked whales

See also: Beaked whale

Northern bottlenose whales

See also: Northern bottlenose whale

The River Thames whale being calmed by rescuers

• River Thames whale

Dolphins

See also: Dolphin

• 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

See also: Bottlenose dolphin and Common bottlenose dolphin

Winter swimming without her prosthetic tail

• 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
• Ronnie from the television series H2O: Just Add Water^[citation needed]
• Tião
• Winter, featured in the film Dolphin Tale

Orcas

See also: Orca and List of captive orcas

Tilikum at SeaWorld Orlando

• Camus from the episode "Moby Dopes" of the TV series The Angry Beavers[9]
• 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

  

  Katina with trainer Dawn Brancheau

• 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

  

  Morgan in August 2010

• 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

  

  Scarlet and her mother, J-16

• 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

Risso's dolphins

See also: Risso's dolphin

• Casper, an albino or leucistic Risso's dolphin inhabiting Monterey Bay, California.[10]
• Pelorus Jack

Sperm whales

See also: Sperm whale

• Little Irvy
• Moby Dick from the 1851 novel Moby-Dick
• Mocha Dick
• Monstro from Pinocchio[11]
• Pearl Krabs from SpongeBob SquarePants
• Porphyrios (species uncertain)
• The sperm whale from the book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and later adaptations
• Timor Tom from Moby-Dick, chapter 45

Belugas

See also: Beluga (whale)

Hvaldimir

• 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

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.[12]

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)[13][14]
• 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

References

1. Revkin, Andrew C. (21 December 2004). "Song of the Sea, a Cappella and Unanswered". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
2. Mowat, Farley (2012). A Whale for the Killing. Canada: Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Limited. ISBN 9781771000284.
3. Ranaldi, Chloë; Leavitt, Sarah (30 May 2020). "A humpback whale is swimming in the St. Lawrence River in Montreal". CBC News. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
4. O'Malley, Olivia (27 January 2021). "Montreal's humpback whale may not have been killed by collision with boat: researchers". Global News. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
5. Mauer, Richard (February 3, 2012). "The real story behind 'Big Miracle'". The Anchorage Daily News. Archived from the original on February 3, 2012. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
6. Goff, Andrew (July 28, 2011). "Whales. In a River". North Coast Journal.
7. "Flipper (1963)". IMDb. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
8. Riley, Christopher (8 June 2014). "The dolphin who loved me: the Nasa-funded project that went wrong". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
9. ""The Angry Beavers" Moby Dopes/Present Tense (TV Episode 2000)". IMDb. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
10. Popęda, Agata (2 November 2021). "Casper the all-white dolphin pays a visit to Monterey Bay—just in time for Halloween". Monterey County Weekly. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
11. Mullen, Chris (2016-06-29). "A Whale of a Tale: An Ode to Monstro | The Walt Disney Family Museum". Walt Disney Family Museum. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
12. DeCou, Christopher (8 October 2018). "When whales were fish". Lateral Magazine. Archived from the original on 27 June 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
13. "The Story of Paikea and Ruatapu". Te Ao Hou: The Maori Magazine. Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa - National Library of New Zealand. September 1962. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
14. Haami, Bradford (2006-06-12). "Te whānau puha – whales". Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. pp. Summary, 1–2, "Paikea, Waipapa marae, University of Auckland". Retrieved 2020-08-08.