Cetaceans Cetacea (; , ) is an infraorder of aquatic mammals that includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Key characteristics are their fully aquatic lifestyle, streamlined body shape, often large size and exclusively carnivorous diet. They propel them ...

are the animals commonly known as

whales Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals. As an informal and colloquial grouping, they correspond to large members of the infraorder Cetacea, i.e. all cetaceans apart from dolphins and ...

, dolphins, and

porpoises Porpoises are a group of fully aquatic marine mammals, all of which are classified under the family Phocoenidae, parvorder Odontoceti (toothed whales). Although similar in appearance to dolphins, they are more closely related to narwhals an ...

. This list includes individuals from real life or fiction, where fictional individuals are indicated by their source. It is arranged roughly

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Baleen whales

Rorquals

52-hertz whale The 52-hertz whale, colloquially referred to as 52 Blue, is an individual whale of unidentified species that calls at the unusual frequency of 52 hertz. This pitch is at a higher frequency than that of the other whale species with migration ...

(may be a

blue whale The blue whale (''Balaenoptera musculus'') is a marine mammal and a baleen whale. Reaching a maximum confirmed length of and weighing up to , it is the largest animal known to have ever existed. The blue whale's long and slender body can ...

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Blue whales

* KOBO

Fin whales

* Moby Joe, a fin whale who became trapped in

Newfoundland Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...

, the subject of Farley Mowat's 1972 book ''A Whale for the Killing''.

Humpback whales

Delta and Dawn Delta and Dawn, also known as the Delta whales, are two humpback whales, a mother and her calf, who entered San Francisco Bay in early May 2007. They swam up the Sacramento River approximately upstream from the Golden Gate, about further inland t ...

* George and Gracie from '' Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home'' *

Humphrey the Whale Humphrey the Whale is a humpback whale that twice deviated from his Mexico to Alaska migration by entering San Francisco Bay. This behavior is unusual for a humpback whale, and Humphrey attracted wide media attention when entering the bay in bo ...

Migaloo The humpback whale (''Megaptera novaeangliae'') is a species of baleen whale. It is a rorqual (a member of the family Balaenopteridae) and is the monotypic taxon, only species in the genus ''Megaptera''. Adults range in length from and weigh u ...

* The Montreal whale * Mister Splashy Pants *

Tay Whale The Tay Whale, known locally as the Monster, was a humpback whale that swam into the Firth of Tay of eastern Scotland in 1883. It was harpooned in a hunt, but escaped, and was found floating dead off Stonehaven a week later. It was towed into ...

Gray whales

* Bonnet, Crossbeak, and Bone or Putu, Siku, and Kanik (in Inupiaq), or Fred, Wilma, and Bamm-Bamm in the book ''

Big Miracle ''Big Miracle'' is a 2012 drama film directed by Ken Kwapis, and stars Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski. The film is based on Tom Rose's 1989 book '' Freeing the Whales'', which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to ...

'' and

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* Klamath River Whales

Toothed whales

Beaked whales

Northern Bottlenose Whales

River Thames whale The River Thames whale, affectionately nicknamed Willy by Londoners, was a juvenile female northern bottlenose whale which was discovered swimming in the River Thames in central London on Friday 20 January 2006. According to the BBC, she was fi ...

Dolphins

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* Ivan and Bessie from the 1967 novel '' The Day of the Dolphin'' or Alpha and Beta in the 1973

* Slim and Delbert from the TV series '' Dolphin Cove'' * Snorky from the Night of the Dolphin segment of ''

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'' 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

* Akeakamai, featured in the novel ''

Startide Rising ''Startide Rising'' is a 1983 science fiction novel by American writer David Brin, the second book of six set in his Uplift Universe (preceded by '' Sundiver'' and followed by ''The Uplift War''). It earned both Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best No ...

'' * 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 *

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, featured in the film '' Dolphin Tale 2'' * Mitzie, who portrayed Flipper * Moko * Opo *Peter, used in experiments in human-dolphin communication by

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Margaret Howe Lovatt Margaret Howe Lovatt (born Margaret C. Howe, in 1942) is a former volunteer naturalist from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. In the 1960s, she took part in a NASA-funded research project in which she attempted to teach a dolphin named Peter to ...

* Pinky * Tião *

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, featured in the film '' Dolphin Tale''

Orcas

* Chimo * Corky (II) * Ethelbert * Granny * Hoi Wai, who portrayed Neptune in the film '' Moon Warriors'' *

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* Jambu or Willzyx from the episode " Free Willzyx" of the TV series ''

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Kalina Kalina may refer to: People * Kalina people, or Caribs, an indigenous people of the northern coastal areas of South America * Kalina language, or Carib, the language of the Kalina people * Kalina (given name) * Kalina (surname) * Noah Kalina, Ame ...

Kanduke Orcas, or killer whales, are large predatory cetaceans that were first captured live and displayed in exhibitions in the 1960s. They soon became popular attractions at public aquariums and aquatic theme parks due to their intelligence, traina ...

Kasatka Kasatka (1976 – August 15, 2017) was a wild caught female orca who lived at SeaWorld San Diego. Life Kasatka was captured off the southeastern coast of Iceland on October 26, 1978 with another young female whale named Kahana. Both were estima ...

* Katina

* Keet * Keto * Keiko, who portrayed Willy in the film ''

Free Willy ''Free Willy'' is a 1993 American family drama film, directed by Simon Wincer, produced by Lauren Shuler Donner and Jennie Lew Tugend, written by Keith A. Walker and Corey Blechman from a story by Walker and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures ...

'' * Klee Wyck, the anthropomorphic mascot of the

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Kohana Kohana may refer to: * Kohana (orca) Orcas, or killer whales, are large predatory cetaceans that were first captured live and displayed in exhibitions in the 1960s. They soon became popular attractions at public aquariums and aquatic theme ...

* Kotar *

Lolita ''Lolita'' is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, a middle-aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humber ...

* Luna * Malia *

Moby Doll Moby Doll was the first orca (killer whale) to survive in captivity for more than two days, and the second to be displayed in a public aquarium exhibit. The availability, for the first time, of a killer whale that could be studied at close quarte ...

Morgan Morgan may refer to: People and fictional characters * Morgan (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Morgan le Fay, a powerful witch in Arthurian legend * Morgan (surname), a surname of Welsh origin * Morgan (singer), ...

* Namu, featured in the film ''

Namu, the Killer Whale ''Namu, the Killer Whale'' (re-issued as ''Namu, My Best Friend'') is a 1966 American film about a killer whale (orca) being studied by a local marine biologist after the murder of his mate and initially feared by local townspeople. Plot Hank D ...

'' * Neptune from the film '' Moon Warriors'' * Ocean Sun (L25) * Old Thom * Old Tom *

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Ramu III Ramu III (known as "Ramu," and later renamed "Winston") was an Orca ("killer whale") who resided at the now-defunct Windsor Safari Park in Windsor, Berkshire, Berkshire, England between 1970 and 1976, and later, at SeaWorld San Diego in San Dieg ...

Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa; sm, Sāmoa, and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono Island, Manono an ...

* Scarlet J-50 orca

Shamu Shamu (unknown – August 16, 1971) was a captive orca that appeared in shows at SeaWorld San Diego in the mid/late 1960s. She was the fourth orca ever captured, and the second female. She was caught in October 1965 and died in August 1971, aft ...

* Springer *

Tahlequah Tahlequah ( ; ''Cherokee'': ᏓᎵᏆ, ''daligwa'' ) is a city in Cherokee County, Oklahoma located at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It is part of the Green Country region of Oklahoma and was established as a capital of the 19th-century ...

* Takara * The orca from the 1977 film ''

Orca The orca or killer whale (''Orcinus orca'') is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family, of which it is the largest member. It is the only Extant taxon, extant species in the genus ''Orcinus'' and is recognizable by its black ...

'' * Tico from the anime series ''

Tico of the Seven Seas is a Japanese anime series by Nippon Animation. It is about an 11-year-old girl and her best friend Tico, a female orca. Unlike the other series in Nippon Animation's ''World Masterpiece Theater'' line, ''Tico of the Seven Seas'' is an entire ...

'' *

Tilikum Tillicum or Tilikum is a word in Chinook Jargon that means people, family, tribe, and relatives, and may refer to: Places * Tilikum Crossing, a bridge in Portland, Oregon * Tillicum, Lakewood, a neighborhood in Lakewood, Washington ** Tillicum st ...

Ulises Ulises is a Spanish language, Spanish-language given name. It is the Spanish form of the English name Ulysses (given name), Ulysses, which itself derives from a Latin form of Odysseus (a legendary Greek king). People with the name * Ulises Adame de ...

Unna Unna is a city of around 59,000 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the seat of the Unna district. The newly refurbished Unna station has trains to all major cities in North Rhine Westphalia including Dortmund, Cologne, Münster, Hamm, D ...

Walter the Whale Walter the Whale was a star killer whale (orca) when keeping orcas in captivity had just begun. At that time, following the death of Namu, the only other established star orca was Shamu. "Walter the Whale" was the orca's advertised name at first ...

* Wikie * Willy from the film ''

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Risso's dolphins

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

Sperm whales

* Little Irvy * Moby Dick from the novel '' Moby-Dick'' * Mocha Dick *

Monstro The Terrible Dogfish ( it, Il Terribile Pescecane) is a dogfish-like sea monster, which appears in Carlo Collodi's 1883 book ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (''Le avventure di Pinocchio'') as one of the main antagonists and the final one. It is ...

from '' Pinocchio'' *

Pearl Krabs Pearl Krabs is a fictional character in the Nickelodeon animated television series ''SpongeBob SquarePants''. She is voiced by actress Lori Alan and first appeared in the season one episode " Squeaky Boots" on September 4, 1999. She was created ...

from ''

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'' * Porphyrios * The sperm whale from the book '' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' and later adaptations * Timor Tom from '' Moby-Dick'', chapter 45

Belugas

* Baby Beluga from the music album of the same name * Benny *

Hvaldimir Hvaldimir is a male beluga whale that fishermen near Hammerfest in northern Norway noticed in April 2019 wearing a camera harness. After being freed from the harness, the whale remained in the area and appeared used to humans. Speculation that he ...

Kayavak Kayavak (born August 3, 1999) is a female beluga whale that currently resides at the Shedd Aquarium in downtown Chicago. She is the only daughter of the mother beluga named Immiayuk. Early life Kayavak was born on August 3, 1999, to a beluga name ...

Moby Dick (Rhine) Moby Dick (''Willi de Waal'' in the Netherlands) was a beluga, or white whale, that caused a sensation in 1966 along the Lower Rhine and then in all of Germany and the Netherlands. It was named after the whale in the 1851 novel ''Moby-Dick'' by Herm ...

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Legendary

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ary or

myth Myth is a folklore genre consisting of Narrative, narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or Origin myth, origin myths. Since "myth" is widely used to imply that a story is not Objectivity (philosophy), ...

ic, 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 Leonardo da Vinci's ''Vitruvian Man''. Based on the correlations of ideal Body proportions">human proportions with geometry described by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in Book III of his treatise ''De architectura''. image:Plato Pio-Cle ...

. * Cetus from

* Devil Whale from legends such as the First Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor * Leviathan from Abrahamic mythology * Makara from

Hindu mythology Hindu mythology is the body of myths and literature attributed to, and espoused by, the adherents of the Hindu religion, found in Hindu texts such as the Vedic literature, epics like ''Mahabharata'' and ''Ramayana'', the Puranas, and reg ...

(possibly a South Asian river dolphin) *

Rongomai In Māori mythology, Rongomai refers to several entities: * a deity by whose assistance Haungaroa traveled from Hawaiki to New Zealand as she went to tell Ngātoro-i-rangi that he had been cursed by Manaia. * a being in whale form which attacke ...

from

Māori mythology Māori mythology and Māori traditions are two major categories into which the remote oral history of New Zealand's Māori may be divided. Māori myths concern fantastic tales relating to the origins of what was the observable world for the pr ...

Tannin Tannins (or tannoids) are a class of astringent, polyphenolic biomolecules that bind to and precipitate proteins and various other organic compounds including amino acids and alkaloids. The term ''tannin'' (from Anglo-Norman ''tanner'', ...

from Canaanite, Phoenician, and Hebrew mythology * The whale who saved Kahutia-te-rangi in

(usually considered to be a humpback whale - - a name Kahutia-te-rangi would adopt himself) * The whale from the Book of Jonah

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