The Cat may refer to:

Nickname

• Mathilde Carré (1910-2007), French spy, double and possibly triple agent
• Peter Bonetti (1941–2020), English footballer
• Greg Cattrano (born 1975), American lacrosse player
• Ernest Miller (born 1964), American professional wrestler
• Félix Potvin (born 1971), Canadian hockey player
• Carl Thompson (boxer) (born 1964), British boxer
• Emile Francis (born 1926), Canadian hockey player, coach, and general manager, most notably of the New York Rangers
• Bogdan Lobonț (born 1978), Romanian football player, now under contract with AS Roma
• Phil Tufnell (born 1966), British television personality and former test cricketer for England
• Tony Meo (born 1959), English snooker player
• Dave Gahan (born 1962), English singer-songwriter
• Russell Westbrook (born 1988), American professional basketball player

Film

• The Cat (1947 film), an Argentine film
• The Cat (1966 film), an American film
• The Cat (1971 film), a French film
• The Cat (1977 film), an Italian film
• The Cat (1988 film), a German film
• The Cat (1992 film), a Hong Kong film directed by Lam Ngai Kai
• The Cat (2011 film), a South Korean film

Television

• T.H.E. Cat, a 1966–1967 TV series starring Robert Loggia
• "The Cat/The Black Cat", an episode of Spider-Man: The Animated Series
• The Cat (Red Dwarf), a character in the TV show Red Dwarf

Comics

• The Cat, original title of a Marvel Comics series and character, later renamed Tigra
• The Cat, alternate name for Walter Hardy, a Marvel Comics character
• The Cat, original name for Catwoman, a DC Comics character
• The Cat, alternate name for Shen Kuei, a Marvel Comics character
• The Cat, English name of the title character of the Belgian comic strip Le Chat

Ferry services

• HSC The Cat (renamed HSC Hai Xia Hao), formerly operated in the Gulf of Maine
• Bay Ferries Great Lakes, in Lake Ontario
• The Cat, a marketing name of the HSC INCAT 046 vessel, a ferry

Other uses

• The Cat (album), a 1964 jazz album by Jimmy Smith
• The title character of the book The Cat in the Hat and the related movie
• The Cat, a fictional character from the novel Animal Farm
• An informal term for Catawissa Creek
• "The Cat", a guitar model manufactured by Aria

See also

• Cat (disambiguation)
• The Cats (disambiguation)
• Catman (disambiguation)
• The Big Cat (disambiguation)
• La Chatte (The She-Cat), a French novel