List of individual monkeys

This annotated list of individual monkeys includes monkeys who are in some way famous or notable. The list does not include notable apes or fictional primates.

• Crystal – (brown capuchin) played in The Hangover Part II, Night at the Museum, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb and as "Annie's Boobs" in Community.

• Able (rhesus macaque) and Miss Baker (Peruvian squirrel monkey), both female – the first monkeys sent into space who survived the experience. They were launched on 28 May 1959 in the nose cone of a Jupiter AM-18 missile as a test of NASA's launch facilities at Cape Canaveral and procedures for retrieving astronauts after splashdown. Able died a few days after the mission, but Miss Baker lived another 25 years.^[1]
• Albert I – (rhesus monkey) the first primate and first mammal launched on a rocket (a June 18, 1948 V-2 flight), although it did not reach space.
• Albert II – (rhesus monkey) the first primate and first mammal in space, June 14, 1949. Died upon hitting the ground due to a parachute failure
• ANDi – (rhesus monkey) the first genetic modified rhesus monkey, born at the Oregon Health & Science University
• Britches – (stump-tailed macaque) removed from his mother at birth, Britches was left alone with his eyes sewn shut as part of a study into blindness. He was rescued by the Animal Liberation Front, which publicized the condition he was found in, and the experiment was shut down.
• Gordo (also known as "Old Reliable") – (squirrel monkey) He was launched in the US Jupiter AM-13 Rocket in 1958, but was lost after a technical failure at the end of the mission.
• Miss Sam – (rhesus macaque) sent into space on Little Joe 1B under the Little Joe program on January 21, 1960.^[2]
• Semos – a nine-year-old male rhesus macaque at the Oregon National Primate Research Center who supplied the skin cells from which scientists were able to successfully derive embryonic stem cells.^[3]
• Tetra – a rhesus macaque at the Oregon National Primate Research Center who was the first cloned primate, created through splitting.^[4]

• Corporal Jackie, a baboon of the South African army
• Darwin, a Japanese macaque who earned notoriety as the "Ikea Monkey"
• Fred, a chacma baboon euthanized in March 2011. Fred had a reputation for stealing food anywhere he could, but when he turned too aggressive, he was caught and controversially euthanized.
• Jacco Macacco, was a fighting ape or monkey who was exhibited in monkey-baiting matches at the Westminster Pit in London in the early 1820s.

• Jack, known as Jack the Signalman [1].^[5] This chacma baboon was reputed to have become an expert at working the railroad signals for the Cape Government Railway.
• Loon, a drill who lived at the San Diego Zoo and was trained to accept blood draws and insulin injections to treat his diabetes.
• Maggie the Monkey, a crab-eating macaque who predicted the results of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
• Natasha (monkey), a Macaque near at the safari park zoo in Tel Aviv, Israel.
• Pockets Warhol, a capuchin monkey also housed at Story Book Farm
• Punch-kun, an orphaned Japanese macaque who lives at the Ichikawa City Zoo. In 2026, he gained viral attention on social media due to his attachment to a stuffed orangutan toy.^[6]
• Ramu, a rhesus macaque arrested and kept behind bars in India for 5 years on the charge of disturbing communal harmony. At the age of three, while under the care of a family, Ramu attacked some children. This sparked communal riots in the Jagannathpur village, ultimately leading to Ramu's arrest.
• Twelves (December 12, 2012 – March 20, 2018), a robust capuchin who was a pet monkey of Brazilian singer Latino.^[7]
• Xing Xing, a wild one-armed Tibetan macaque who resides in the Daliang Mountains of China, where she had gained iconicity from social media appearances.^[8]

• List of fictional primates
• List of individual apes
• Monkeys and apes in space