List of Famous Dogs and Dog Names

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Dogs in Books Famous from 1940 to 1959

Sorted by Venue (including starting word "The")

Tickie
Agaton's dog in the Swedish detective novels, animated TV series, and the animated movie Agaton Sax and the Bykoebing Village Festival (Agaton Sax och Byköpings gästabud); about an owner of a detective agency chasing two villains.
BREED: Dachshund YEARS: Books: 1955-1978. Animated TV series: 1976. Movie: 1976.

Big Red (Book cover )
A show dog in the book and the movie by Disney Big Red; about a dog that would rather run through the woods than be the perfectly-trained and groomed show dog; written by Jim Kjelgarrd. (Also in the book and movie is dog Molly.)
BREED: Irish Setter YEARS: Book: 1945. Movie: 1962.

Whitey
The flippant detective's dog in book, in movies and in the TV series Boston Blackie; about a reformed jewel thief who solves crimes; in the movies starring Chester Morris, and in the TV series Kent Taylor. The characters of the stories were created by author Jack Boyle in the early 1900s.
BREED: Black Terrier YEARS: Short Stories: 1914-1920. Movies: 1918-1949. Radio: 1944-1950. TV series: 1951-1953.

Nathaniel
The first of Bruce Webster's modified dogs in the sci-fi fix-up novel City, a collection of eight tales that pastoral Dogs, in some future time, recite as oral legend of a creature known as Man; written by Clifford D. Simak.
BREED: Scottish Terrier (character based on Simak's dog, Scootie) YEARS: Book: 1952.

Charkie (Book )
Steve and Betsy's dog in the children's book, animated movie, and animated TV series Curious George; about a brown monkey who is brought from his home in Africa by "The Man with The Yellow Hat" to live in a big city; written by Hans Augusto Rey and Margret Rey.
BREED: Cocker Spaniel YEARS: Book: since 1941. TV series: 2004, 2006. Movie: 2006.

Spot
A generic dog in the book Dick and Jane; about a generic boy and generic girl in a generic world; created by William S. Gray a children's reader series.
BREED: Generic YEARS: Book: 1936-1965.

Bob
Emily's pet in the book and TV show Dumb Witness; a murder mystery featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot; about a wealthy spinster who believes she has been the victim of attempted murder.
BREED: Fox Terrier YEARS: Book: 1937, TV show: 1996.

Ginger
Jerry's dog in the book Ginger Pye; about a smart dog who gets stolen; written by Eleanor Estes.
BREED: Generic YEARS: Book: 1952.

Lady (Book cover ) (Also known as Isis)
Skeeter's dog in the book and in the movie Goodbye My Lady; about an old man and a young boy living in the Georgia swamps who are brought together by the love of a dog; written by James H. Street. The movie starred Walter Brennan and Brandon DeWilde.
BREED: Basenji YEARS: Book: 1954. Movie: 1956.

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Ribsy
Henry's dog in the book series about Henry Higgins; about a young boy's adventures in Portland, Oregon in the 1950s; written by Beverly Cleary.
BREED: Mixed breed YEARS: Book: 1950.

Samantha (or Sam)
In the book and the movie I am Legend; a post-apocalyptic science fiction story with Will Smith as the lead in the movie; written by Francis Lawrence.
BREED: German Shepherd YEARS: Book: 1954. Movie: 2007.

Mike (Irish Red)
Danny's dog and son of Big Red in the book Irish Red, Son of Big Red; about a runt bird dog who eventually proves he is as good as his famous father; written by Jim Kjelgaard.
BREED: Irish Setter YEARS: Book: 1951. Reissue: 1984.

Pilot
Mr. Rochester's dog in the TV series (British) Jane Eyre; about a young governess who falls in love with her brooding and complex master; based upon the book by Charlotte Bronte. In the book the dog is a Newfoundland; in other films other kinds of dogs.
BREED: Landseer Newfoundland (Irish Wolfhound in some portrayals) YEARS: Book: 1847. TV series: 2006. Movies: 1914-2011.

Lampo (Statue )
Elvio's dog in life and in the book Lampo, the Traveling Dog. The dog rode trains by himself to various parts of Italy and always returned. Station workers everywhere would tie rail ticket stubs to his collar showing where he'd been. His statue is at Campiglia Marittima Station.
BREED: Mixed breed YEARS: Dog: 1953-1961. Book: 1963.

Lassie
A dog who treks many miles to be reunited with the boy she loves in the book Lassie Come Home; written by Eric Knight. (More about Lassie.)
BREED: Rough Collie YEARS: Book: 1940.

Bandit (See also Jack)
The family's second dog in the books and the TV series Little House on the Prairie; based on the memories of Laura Ingalls Wilder's childhood in the Midwest region of the United States during the late 19th century.
BREED: Bulldog (mixed breed in TV series) YEARS: Book: 1935-1943, 1962, 1971, 1974. TV series: 1977-1983.

Genevieve (Movie poster )
Madeline's dog in the children's book series, in the movie, and animated TV series for children Madeline; about a girl who lives in Paris and attends a boarding school; written by Ludwig Bemelmans.
BREED: Generic YEARS: Books: 1939-1967. TV series: 1991-2007. Movie: 1998.

Sorry O-O (Comic )
A melancholy and longing dog in the comic strip, TV series, and books about Moomin; a series of episodes with several eccentric and oddly-shaped characters, some of whom are related to each other; by Finnish author Tove Jansson.
BREED: Generic YEARS: Books: 1945-1970. Comic strip: 1945-1975. TV series: 1959-1991.

Tulip (Named Queenie in real-life and in the book)
Ackerley's dog in the book and animated movie My Dog Tulip; based on the memoirs of J. R. Ackerley; starring the voices of Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave and Isabella Rossellini.
BREED: German Shepherd YEARS: Book: 1956. Movie: 2009.

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Bumpy (Stuffed toy )
Noddy's companion in the children's books and British animated TV series for children about Noddy; a character created by British children's author Enid Blyton.
BREED: Generic YEARS: Book: 1949-1963. TV series: 1975, 1992, 1998, 2001.

Old Yeller (Played by Spike)
In the book and the movie Old Yeller; about a boy who brings a yellow dog home; written by Fred Gipson.
BREED: Blackmouth Cur YEARS: Book: 1956. Movie: 1957.

Bullseye (Book )
Bill Sikes's dog in the book Oliver Twist; about a orphan boy caught in the misery of old London; by Charles Dickens and in the many movie adaptations including the movie Oliver.
BREED: Bull Terrier or Bulldog YEARS: Book: 1837-1839. Movies: 1922, 1948, 1968, 1988, 1997, 2005. TV: 1999, 2007.

Nana
In the book Peter and Wendy and the original play Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie and in the stage musical Peter Pan.
BREED: Newfoundland in the play and book. In film and on stage St. Bernard. YEARS: Play: 1904. Book: 1911. Stage: 1954, 1979, 1990, 1998.

Garrick
Demelza'a dog in the book series and TV series Poldark, about the lives of a British army officer, his relatives and friends in the late 18th and early 19th century in Cornwall; creator of the 12 book series, Winston Graham. There were two TV series, the latest in 2015, starring Aidan Turner as Poldark.
BREED: Mixed breed YEARS: Book: 1945-2002. TV series: 1975, 2015.

Jasper (2020 movie )
Maxim de Winter's dog in the movie Rebecca; about a self-conscious bride who is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife; starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on the book by Daphne du Maurier. Also a 2020 movie starring Lily James.
BREED: Cocker Spaniel YEARS: Book: 1938. Movie: 1940, 2020

Renni (From cover of 1941 Swiss edition)
A military working dog in the German book Renni der Retter: Das Leben eines Kriegshundes, (Renni the Rescuer: A Dog of the Battlefield), a fictional account of a dog raised and trained for war; written by Felix Salten. The English translation of the book differs from the original.
BREED: German Shepherd YEARS: Book: 1940, 1941.

Scuppers
A dog who goes to sea and gets shipwrecked in the book Scuppers The Sailor Dog; written by Margaret Wise Brown.
BREED: Generic YEARS: Book: 1953 reprinted in 2001.

Pedro
Faithful companion of private detective Sexton Blake in the British TV series Sexton Blake, about a detective solving many kinds of mysteries.
BREED: Bloodhound YEARS: Comic strips: 1939-1979. Movies: 1930-1958. TV: 1967-1971.

Moreover (1940 movie ) (Named Faith in the early movie version)
In the movie The Biscuit Eater; about a dog who has a strong relationship with two twelve-year-old boys; a remake of a 1940 film and based upon the book by James H. Street.
BREED: German Wirehaired Pointer YEARS: Book: 1939. Movie: 1940, 1972.

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Black Bob (Book cover )
Shepherd master Andrew Glenn's dog in the the comic The Dandy and the book Black Bob: The Dandy Wonder Dog; drawn by Jack Prout.
BREED: Border Collie YEARS: Comics: 1944-1982. Book: 1950-1965.

Mutt
The author's dog in the book The Dog Who Wouldn't Be; about the author's boyhood on the Canadian prairies; written by Farley Mowat.
BREED: Mixed breed YEARS: Book: 1957.

Roger
Gerry's dog in the book and the British TV series The Durrells (also known as The Durrells in Corfu on American television); about a English family trying to survive on the Greek island of Corfu in the late 1930s; based on Gerald Durrell's three autobiographical books. The story was also told in a 2005 TV film, My Family and Other Animals.
BREED: Mixed breed YEARS: Books: 1956, 1969, 1978. TV film: 2005. TV series: 2016.

Timmy (Animated TV series )
The childrens' dog in the books, the TV series and animated TV series The Famous Five; a series of children's stories by Enid Blyton and later adapted for British TV in the late 1970s, then in the 1990s, then as an animated series.
BREED: Border Collie in the TV series; mixed breed in the books YEARS: Book: 1942-1963. TV series: 1978-1979 1995-1997. TV series: 2008.

Buster (Another )
Fatty's dog who often stumbles upon clues in the children's book series The Five Find-Outers; about five children and a dog who solve mysteries; written by Enid Blyton.
BREED: Scottish Terrier YEARS: Book: 1943-1961.

Missus (See also Pongo)
The mother dog in the book The Hundred and One Dalmations; about the travails of two Dalmatians and their puppies; written by Dodie Smith, illustration by Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone. (Source for the 1961 film One Hundred and One Dalamtians and 1996 film 101 Dalmatians.)
BREED: Dalmatian YEARS: Book: 1956.

Cleo (Book )
"Sock" Miller's dog in the TV series The People's Choice; about an ex-Marine and politician whose dog voice his master's dilemmas; starring Jackie Cooper. Also in the Little Golden Books series of children's books.
BREED: Basset Hound YEARS: TV series: 1955-1958. Book: 1957.

Poky (Actually The Poky Little Puppy)
One of the family dogs in the children's book The Poky Little Puppy; about a litter of pups one of which avoids mischief because he is in his own world; written by Janette Sebring Lowrey.
BREED: Generic YEARS: Book: 1942, 1970.

Petey (Group )
A lonely orphan boy's dog in the animated TV series The Puppy's Further Adventures; based on a children's book The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy; written by Jane Thayer. (Also in the series are dogs Dolly, Duke, Dash, and Lucky.)
BREED: Generic YEARS: Book: 1958. TV series: 1983-1984.

Scamper
Janet and Peter's pet dog in the children's book series The Secret Seven; about a group of child detectives solving mysteries; created by Enid Blyton.
BREED: English Cocker Spaniel YEARS: Book: 1949-1963.

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Kazak
Companion of Rumfoor in the book The Sirens of Titan; about the richest, most depraved man on Earth who takes a journey to distant worlds with his dog; by Kurt Vonnegut.
BREED: English_Mastiff YEARS: Book: 1959.

Ollie
Seans dog in the movie based on the book The Sundowners; about an Australian outback family torn between the father's desires to continue his nomadic sheep-herding ways and the wife's and son's desire to settle down in one place; by Jon Cleary
BREED: Australian Kelpie YEARS: Book: 1952. Movie: 1960.

Sinbad
The mascot of the U.S. Coast Guard and in the book written by George F. Foley Jr. Sinbad of the Coast Guard. (More about Sinbad.)
BREED: Mixed breed YEARS: Dog: 1937-1951. Book: 1945

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The number of Dogs in Books Famous from 1940 to 1959 is 42

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First Venue on each page
1.	Agaton Sax and the Bykoebing Village Festival (Tickie)
2.	Henry Higgins (Ribsy)
3.	Noddy (Bumpy)
4.	The Dandy (Black Bob)
5.	The Sirens of Titan (Kazak)
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Venue (Dog Name)
1.	Agaton Sax and the Bykoebing Village Festival (Tickie)
2.	Big Red (Big Red)
3.	Boston Blackie (Whitey)
4.	City (Nathaniel)
5.	Curious George (Charkie)
6.	Dick and Jane (Spot)
7.	Dumb Witness (Bob)
8.	Ginger Pye (Ginger)
9.	Goodbye My Lady (Lady)
10.	Henry Higgins (Ribsy)
11.	I am Legend (Samantha)
12.	Irish Red, Son of Big Red (Mike)
13.	Jane Eyre (Pilot)
14.	Lampo, the Traveling Dog (Lampo)
15.	Lassie Come Home (Lassie)
16.	Little House on the Prairie (Bandit)
17.	Madeline (Genevieve)
18.	Moomin (Sorry O-O)
19.	My Dog Tulip (Tulip)
20.	Noddy (Bumpy)
21.	Old Yeller (Old Yeller)
22.	Oliver Twist (Bullseye)
23.	Peter and Wendy (Nana)
24.	Poldark (Garrick)
25.	Rebecca (Jasper)
26.	Renni der Retter Das Leben eines Kriegshundes
27.	Scuppers The Sailor Dog (Scuppers)
28.	Sexton Blake (Pedro)
29.	The Biscuit Eater (Moreover)
30.	The Dandy (Black Bob)
31.	The Dog Who Wouldn't Be (Mutt)
32.	The Durrells (Roger)
33.	The Famous Five (Timmy)
34.	The Five Find-Outers (Buster)
35.	The Hundred and One Dalmations (Missus)
36.	The People's Choice (Cleo)
37.	The Poky Little Puppy (Poky)
38.	The Puppy's Further Adventures (Petey)
39.	The Secret Seven (Scamper)
40.	The Sirens of Titan (Kazak)
41.	The Sundowners (Ollie)
42.	U.S. Coast Guard (Sinbad)