List of individual cetaceans

This is a list of individual cetaceans from real life or fiction, arranged roughly taxonomically. Cetacea includes the animals commonly known as whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Fictional individuals are indicated by their source.

Dawn the humpback whale in the Sacramento River in 2007

Baleen whales

Rorquals

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

Blue whales

KOBO

KOBO

Humpback whales

Delta and Dawn
George and Gracie from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Humphrey the Whale
Migaloo
Mister Splashy Pants
Tay Whale

Gray whales

Bonnet, Crossbeak, and Bone or Putu, Siku, and Kanik (in Inupiaq),[2] or Fred, Wilma, and Bamm-Bamm in the book Big Miracle and film adaptation

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 novel The Day of the Dolphin or Alpha and Beta in the film adaptation
Slim and Delbert from the TV series Dolphin Cove
Snorky from the Night of the Dolphin segment of The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror XI"
The dolphin from the fairy tale The Dolphin

Bottlenose dolphins

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[3]
Moko
Opo
Pinky
Tião
Winter, featured in the film Dolphin Tale

Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins

Zoom from the anime series Zoom the White Dolphin

Orcas

Tilikum at SeaWorld Orlando

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
Klee Wyck, the anthropomorphic mascot of the 1994 Commonwealth Games
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
Old Tom
Ramu III
Samoa
Scarlet

Scarlet and her mother, J-16

Shamu
Springer
Tahlequah
Takara
The orca from the film Orca
Tico from the anime series Tico of the Seven Seas
Tilikum
Ulisses
Unna
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[4]
Pearl Krabs from SpongeBob SquarePants
The sperm whale from the book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and later adaptations
Timor Tom from Moby-Dick

Belugas

Hvaldimir

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.[5]

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)[6][7]
The whale from the Book of Jonah

References

Revkin, Andrew C. (21 December 2004). "Song of the Sea, a Cappella and Unanswered". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
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.
"Flipper (1963)". IMDb. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
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.
DeCou, Christopher (8 October 2018). "When whales were fish". Lateral Magazine. Archived from the original on 27 June 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
"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.
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.

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[nyt-1] Revkin, Andrew C. (21 December 2004). "Song of the Sea, a Cappella and Unanswered". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-08-06.

[2] 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.

[3] "Flipper (1963)". IMDb. Retrieved 8 August 2020.

[4] 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.

[5] DeCou, Christopher (8 October 2018). "When whales were fish". Lateral Magazine. Archived from the original on 27 June 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.

[6] "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.

[7] 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.