350+ Famous Horse Names from Movies, Books, History and More

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1 Famous Race Horse Names

2 Famous Horses in Movies

3 Famous Western Horse Names

4 Famous War Horse Names

5 Horses in Literature

6 Famous Cartoon Horses

7 Famous White Horse Names

8 Famous Black Horse Names

Famous Race Horse Names

Kingston
Night Raid
Zippy Chippy
Goldsmith Maid
Bernborough
Sunday Silence
Moifaa
Eclipse
Whirlaway
Allez France
Pleasant Colony
Peter Pan
Phar Lap
Nijinsky II
Yeats
Hurricane Fly
California Chrome
Invasor
Northern Dancer
Tanya
Quevega
Black Caviar
Brigadier Gerard
Jay Trump
Voltaire
Longfellow
Dawn Run
Sunline
Archer
Cardigan Bay
Desert Gold
Kissin George
Beholder
Zev
Seabiscuit
Tiznow
Zenyatta
Exterminator
Best Mate
Shergar

Sea Bird
Bold Forbes
Aristides
Tonalist
Animal Kingdom
Roy Olcott
Genuine Risk
Ajax
La Troienne
Deep Impact
Citation
Funny Cide
Cigar
Sir Winston
Fair Play
War Of Will
Mahubah
Smarty Jones
Gloaming
Tuscalee
Zabeel
John Henry
Storm Cat
Nasrullah
Your Host
Unbridled’s Song
Assault
Seattle Slew
American Pharoah
Bold Ruler
Kingston Town
Curlin
Johnstown
Kindergarten
Kelso
Alydar
Native Dancer
Sleipnir
Orfevre
Secretariat
Crisp
Isonomy
Castleshane

Varenne
Flyingbolt
Mr. Prospector
Unbreakable
Vo Rouge
Hyperion:
Needles
Isinglass
Easy Goer
Big Brown
Queensway
Might and Power
War Admiral
I’ll Have Another
Rachel Alexandra
Adios
Sardar
Spectacular Bid
Affirmed
Kincsem
Dr. Fager
Unbridled
Niatross
Country House
Maximum Security
Overdose
Frankel
Bret Hanover
Makybe Diva
Hastings
Iroquois
Man o’ War
Eight Belles
Winning Colors
Rock Sand
Adios Butler
Sea the Stars
Gainsborough
Ruffian
Galileo
Desert Orchid
Regret
Justify

Bucephalus
Buckpasser
Skewball
Red Rum
Silky Sullivan
Danehill
Xaar
Golden Miller
Round Table
Lottery
Arrogate
Dan Patch
Twenty Grand
Go Man Go
Hambletonian 10
Irish War Cry
Carbine
Greyhound
Winx
Swale
Real Quiet
Whistlejacket
Lookin At Lucky
Ribot
Vain
Zaccio
Steel Dust
Xtra Heat
Dance Smartly
Incitatus
Barbaro
Ruthless
Whisk Broom II
Two Lea
Sadler’s Wells
Lexington
The Duke
Arkle
Doncaster
Lonesome Glory
Master Charlie
Albatross
Kalgoorlie Kid
Wise Dan
Ben Nevis

Famous Horses in Movies

Little Blackie (True Grit)
White Cloud (Caravan Trail)
White Feller (The Lone Ranger)
Old Thunder (The Big Country)
Thunderhead (Thunderhead, King Of The Herd)
Sunny (Aces Wild)
Apache (Devil Horse)
Pie (National Velvet)
Goliath (Ladyhawke)
Silver Bullet (Shadows Of The West)
Joey (War Horse)
Conquistador (The Littlest Outlaw)
Dollar (The Shootist)
Dover (My Fair Lady)
Gulliver (The Horse Whisperer)
April Love (April Love)
Two Bits (Two Bits and Pepper)
Antares (Ben-Hur)
Blue Boy (Wrong Again)
Gunpowder (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
Stormy (Great Adventures Of Wild Bill Hickok)
Sunshine (Western Trails)
Napoleon (The Black Stallion)
Altair (Ben-Hur)
Beric (Knights of the Round Table)
Tornado (Zorro)
Tolo (The Long Shot)
Phantom (Trigger Junior)
Spirit (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron)
Shadowfax (Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring)
Big John (For Richer or Poorer)
Crazy Alice (Cowboys)
Dynamite (Zorro)
Checkers (Moondance Alexander)
Black Beauty (Black Beauty)
Aldebaran (Ben-Hur)
Pal (Law Of The Ranger)
Samson (Sleeping Beauty)
Diablo (Cisco Kid)
Don (Hot to Trot)
Sweetheart (Stagecoach)
Sugar (These Thousand Hills)
Sunfish (Bucking Broncho)
Angus (Brave)
Zane (Billy The Kid In Texas)
Copper (Eddie Dean)
Sheik (Panamint’s Bad Man)
Chico (Land Of Wanted Men)
Phillip (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
Hidalgo (Hidalgo)

Achilles (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Rusty (Dynamite Canyon)
Taff/Bo (Ride a Wild Pony)
Pepper (Two Bits and Pepper)
Rigel (Ben-Hur)
Bucephalus (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Alexander)
Zip Cochise (El Dorado)
Cactus (Sheriff Of Cimarron)
Chub (Bonanza)
Pardner (Battling Buddy)
Tex (The Legend Of The Lone Ranger)
Bad Horse (Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog)
Old Dollar (The Shootist)
Duke (Ride Him Cowboy)
Tumbleweed (Tumbleweed)
Ollie (Maverick)
Mr. Ed (Mr. Ed)
Cisco (Dances with Wolves)
Lightning (Western Heritage)
Old Speed (Goin’ South)
Pilgrim (The Horse Whisperer)
Denny (The Man From Snowy River)
Dice (Duel In The Sun)
Buster (Bronco Billy)
Sonny (My Outlaw Brother)
Khartoum (The Godfather)
Captain (101 dalmatians)
Cochise (El Dorado)
Maximus (Tangled)
Gypsy (Gypsy Colt)
Little Champ (Beyond The Purple Hills)
Seabiscuit (Seabiscuit)
Flash (Flash)
Bad Jim (Bad Jim)
Ginger (Black Beauty)
Flicka (Flicka)
Artax (The NeverEnding Story)
Smokey (Moonlight On The Prairie)
Sprout (The Parent Trap)
Nurah and Thebes (The Ten Commandments)
Concorde (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Sylvester (Sylvester)
Goldie (Concentratin’ Kid)
Taco (Riders Of The Range)
Bear (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman)
Oliver Hardy (Flying Deuces)
Senator (Ranchers And Rascals)
Beau (True Grit)
Frou-Frou (The Aristocats)
Bullseye (Toy Story)

Famous Western Horse Names

Tony (Tom Mix)
Goldie (Hoot Gibson)
Dynamite (Zorro)
Amigo (Peter Brown)
Gipsy (Martin Kiss)
Phantom (Roy Rogers)
Silver Cloud (Hardy Murphy)
Allen’s Gold Zepher (Roy Rogers)
Starlight (Tim Mccoy)
Rusty (Tom Keene)
Banner (John Wayne)
Ollie (Maverick)
Ponca (Tom Mix)
Pal (Bob Allen)
El Loaner (James Garner)
Tony Ii (Tom Mix)
Sunfish (Lee Martin)
Pardner (Buddy Roosevelt)
Copper (Eddie Dean)
Duke (John Wayne)
Red Buck (Emmett Dalton)
Silver (Buck Jones)
Loco (Pancho)
Old Speed (Jack Nicholson)
Pete (Gary Cooper)
Paint (The Lone Ranger)
Sunshine(Bill Patton)
Tumbleweed (Audie Murphy)
Scar (James Stewart)
Silver (The Lone Ranger)
Old Blue (Tom Mix)
Topper (Hopalong Cassidy)
Smokey (Dick Foran)
Cactus (Sunset Carson)
Silver Bullet (Whip Wilson)
Flash (Eddie Dean)
Crazy Alice (Cowboys (1972)
Buster (Clint Eastwood)
Tornado (Zorro)
Stormy (Wild Bill Elliott)
Knight (Rod Cameron)
Red Fox (Jesse James)
Feather (Allan Lane)
Tony Junior (Tom Mix)
Phantom (Guy Williams)
Koko (Rex Allen)

Trigger Junior (Roy Rogers)
Little Trigger (Roy Rogers)
Falcon (Buster Crabbe)
Old Dollar (John Wayne)
White Feller (Tonto)
White Flash (Tex Ritter)
Bingo (Don Durant)
Senator (Leo Maloney)
Tex (Daniel Reed)
Traveler (Robert Fulle)
Scout (Jack Hoxie)
Smoky (Lee Marvin)
Raider (Charles Starrett)
Chico (Bill Cody)
Lightning (Tim Holt)
Champion (Gene Autry)
Comanche (Tom Mix)
Zip Cochise (John Wayne)
Sugar (Don Murray)
Apache (Lash Larue)
Tonka (Sal Mineo)
Goodeye(Nat Love)
Pie (James Stewart)
Sheik (Smith Ballew)
Candy (David Carradine)
Sunny (Harry Carey)
Target (Annie Oakley)
Apache (Bob Baker)
Dice (Gregory Peck)
Taco (Chito Rafferty)
Old Thunder (Gregory Peck)
Thunderhead (Mary O’hara)
Stardust (Gene Barry)
Sweetheart (Stagecoach)
Trigger (Roy Rogers)
Thunderbolt (Johnny West)
Black Jack (Allan Rocky Lane)
Mesquite (Allan Rocky Lane)
Whiskey (Kirk Douglas)
Little Champ (Gene Autry)
Apache (Tom Mix)
Bad Jim (Billy The Kid)
Sonny (Wild Bill Elliott)
Zane(Bob Steele)
Diablo (Cisco Kid)
Buttermilk (Dale Evans)
Henry (John Wayne)

Famous War Horse Names

Sergeant Reckless (Decorated war horse who held official rank in the United States military)
Marengo (Napoleon Bonaparte)
Palomo (Simon Bolivar)
Comanche (Captain Myles Keogh of the 7th Cavalry)
Traveller (General Robert E. Lee)
Smiler (Theon Greyjoy’s warhorse from “A Song of Ice and Fire”)
Chetak (King Maharana Pratap)
Bucephalus (Alexander the Great)
Copenhagen (Lord Arthur Wellesly)
Topthorn (War Horse by Michael Morpurgo)
Altivo (Cortez’s warhorse from DreamWorks’ The Road to El Dorado)
Joey (“War Horse” by Michael Morpurgo)
Kasztanka (Marshal Jozef Pilsudski)
Stranger (Sandor Clegane’s warhorse from “A Song of Ice and Fire”)
Argo (from “Xena: Warrior Princess”)
Tencendur (Charlemagne’s warhorse in “The Song of Roland”)
Cincinnati (General Ulysses S. Grant)
Dora (A war horse of Đurađ Senković)
Favorito (The personal horse of Charles Albert of Savoy, King of Sardinia)
Blueskin (Washington’s horse during the American Revolutionary War)
Black Jack (The last Quartermaster-issued U.S. Army horse)
Nelson (Washington’s horse during the American Revolutionary War)
Babieca (Horse of El Cid)

Horses in Literature

Black Beauty (“Black Beauty” by Anna Sewell)
Figure (Justin Morgan Had a Horse)
Oberon (The Mystery of Pony Hallow)
The Phantom (Misty of Chincoteague)
The Black (The Black Stallion)
Glory (from Gene Markey’s short story)
Boxer, Mollie, and Clover (from “Animal Farm” by George Orwell)
Pollux (The Dark Is Rising Sequence)
Monarch (from Jodie’s Journey)
Glue-Boy (Dark Tower series by Stephen King)
Jim (Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz)
Ferd (This is Reality)
Pilgrim (The Horse Whisperer)
Snowfire (from Christopher Paolini’s “Eragon”)
Shadowfax (Lord of the Rings)
Cadoc (Eragon)
Greatheart (from Robin McKinley’s novel “Beauty”)
Fury (from John Steinbeck’s novel “The Red Pony”)
Guido (a Pegasus from Rick Riordan’s “Percy Jackson”)
Trojan Horse (Homer’s The Odyssey)
Angharrad (Chaos Walking trilogy)
Bless (Narcissus and Goldmund)
Pips (Wheel of Time)
Blessing (“The Secret Horse” by Gina Bertaina)
Black Boy and Rapide (ponies from the series by Ruby Ferguson)
Acorn (Chaos Walking series)
Ginger (“Black Beauty” by Anna Sewell)
Bronze (Creatures of Light and Darkness)
Faran (The Elenium and The Tamuli)
Flame (The Black Stallion series)
Artax (The Neverending Story)
Bela (The Wheel of Time series)
Moonlight (the horse in the Song of the Lioness quartet by Tamora Pierce)
Sam and David (Little House on the Prairie)
Sunchaser (The Unicorns Of Balinor)
Kate and Bill (Laura Ingalls Wilder’s The First Four Years)
Stayer and Stepper (The Wheel of Time series)
Pied Piper (Misty of Chincoteague)
Black Gold (from “Black Gold” by Marguerite Henry)
Athansor (A Winter’s Tale)
Binky (Discworld novels)
Nara (The Dark Horse series by Mary H. Herbert)
Persephone (House of Night)
Thowra (Silver Brumby)
Capilet (William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”)
Sunfire (Ravenheart and Sorrowheart)
Sunstorm (Ashleigh’s Hope)
Secret (Gina Bertaina’s “The Secret Horse”)
Whinney, Racer and Grey (from the Earth’s Children books)
Smiler (warhorse from “A Song of Ice and Fire”)
Joey (“War Horse” by Michael Morpurgo)
Florian (Florian, the Emperor’s Horse)

Silver Blaze (from the Sherlock Holmes stories)
Lukas (in the Emil i Lönneberga series by Astrid Lindgren)
Tencendur (warhorse in “The Song of Roland”)
Trotsky (from the books by Betty MacDonald)
Tug (a small horse/pony in the Ranger’s Apprentice series)
Nana (the racehorse from novel “Nana”)
Gypsy (Gypsy from Nowhere)
Pylon (the Dark Tower series by Stephen King)
Sham (King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry)
Highboy (My Friend Flicka)
Azarax (The Byerley Turk)
Blaze (children’s books by Clarence William Anderson)
Stranger (warhorse from “A Song of Ice and Fire”)
Talat (The Hero and the Crown)
Dagobaz (The Far Pavilions)
Merrylegs (“Black Beauty” by Anna Sewell)
Rusher (the Dark Tower series by Stephen King)
Abelard (Ranger’s Apprentice series)
Azul (the Blue Horse, from “The Alchemical Horseman”)
Alfonso (Pippi Longstocking series)
Tornac (from Christopher Paolini’s Eragon)
Bess and Beauty (Farmer Boy)
Napoleon (The Black Stallion)
Cloud (the pony in “The Immortals quartet”)
Miramis (from Astrid Lindgren’s book “Mio, My Son”)
Blackjack (Percy Jackson series)
Stormy (Stormy, Misty’s Foal by Marguerite Henry)
The Pie (National Velvet by Enid Bagnold)
Fru-Fru (“Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy)
Porkpie (Percy Jackson)
Smoky (Smoky the Cow Horse)
Prince and Lady (Little House books)
Whirlwind (“Shadow Horse” by Alison Hart)
Scipio (Heroes of Olympus series)
Castor (The Dark Is Rising Sequence)
Flicka (My Friend Flicka)
Stardust (Ashleigh’s Hope)
Thunderhead (son of Flicka in the book by Mary O’Hara)
Pildarlick (Valley of Wild Horses)
Barnum and Skip (Little House books)
Gunpowder (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
Morgenstern (“Chronicles of Amber” by Roger Zelazny)
Peachblossom (Protector of the Small quartet by Tamora Pierce)
Lark (The Berserker’s Horse by Lisa Maxwell)
Arondel (Middle English romance “Bevis of Hampton”)
Rocinante (Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes)
Starlight (Farmer Boy)
Rocket (My Friend Flicka)
Banner (My Friend Flicka)

Famous Cartoon Horses

Samson (Disney’s Sleeping Beauty)
Buck (Home on the Range)
Lightning (Dinozaurs: The Series)
Khan (from Disney’s Mulan)
Cyril Proudbottom (Disney’s The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad)
Deablo the Horse (from “Johnny Bravo”)
Ponycorn (from Bomberman B-Daman Bakugaiden)
Major (Cinderella)
Chet (The Littlest Pet Shop)
Phillipe, Belle (Disney’s Beauty and the Beast)
De Royal, Double Eight, Chestnut, Mikagehomare, Miyako, and Rosanna (from “Silver Spoon”)
Angus (Disney’s Brave)
Captain (Disney’s 101 Dalmatians)
Spirit (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron)
Princess (The Simpsons)
Majesty (Barbie & Her Sisters in A Pony Tale)
Mr. Horse (from “Ren and Stimpy”)
Maximus (Disney’s Tangled)
Sugarfoot (a Walter Lantz cartoon)
Altivo (DreamWorks’ The Road to El Dorado)
Donny the White Horse (The Powerpuff Girls)
Starlight and Skydancer (from “Rainbow Brite”)
Frou-Frou (from “Aristocats”)
Rain (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron)
Bullseye (Toy Story 2)
James Baxter (from “Adventure Time”)
Yato (from Legend of Basara)
BoJack Horseman (BoJack Horseman)
Bucephalus (Reign: The Conqueror)
Achilles (Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame)