List of historical dogs 

• Balto, lead dog of sled-dog team that delivered medicine from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska to save Nome from a diphtheria epidemic
• Barney, US President George W. Bush's Scottish terrier.
• Belka, dog aboard Sputnik 5[?].
• Boatswain, favorite pet of Lord Byron
• Buddy, US President Clinton's chocolate Labrador retriever.
• Centaur Pendragon, Rudolph Valentino's Irish Wolfhound
• Checkers, US President Nixon's cocker spaniel, made famous in the Checkers speech[?]
• Diamond, Sir Isaac Newton's favorite dog.
• Jack, US President Roosevelt's terrier.
• Murray of Fala Hill (or Fala), US President Roosevelt's Scottish terrier, given by his cousin, Margaret Suckley.
• Laika, the dog aboard Sputnik 2.
• Manchu, Alice Roosevelt's small black Pekingese which she received as a gift from the last empress of China.
• Millie, US First Lady Barbara Bush's springer spaniel.
• Nigger, a black labrador retriever who gave his name as the codename for the Dam Busters[?] mission in World War II. (He was given the name solely because he was black, but it is usually edited out of modern versions of the film about the mission.)
• Pete, US President Roosevelt's bull terrier, who bit so many people he was exiled from the White House.
• Robot, dog who discovered the cave paintings at Lascaux
• Sailor Boy, US President Roosevelt's Chesapeake retriever.
• Seaman, Meriwether Lewis's Newfoundland during the expedition.
• Skip, US President Roosevelt's mongrel.
• Spot "Spotty" Fletcher, US President George W. Bush's English Springer spaniel , named after Scott Fletcher, a former Texas Rangers baseball player.
• Strelka, dog aboard Sputnik 5[?].

Related Topics

• List of fictional dogs
• List of historical animals