Top 50 Famous Horse Names Inspired By Movies

If you love movies, horses are your true passion and want to give your horse a famous name, here’s the list of the most famous horse names from TV shows. Check the list and make your choice.

•     Cisco, John Dunbar’s buckskin gelding from Dances with Wolves
•     Sylvester, from Sylvester (1985)
•     Big John, from For Richer or Poorer
•     Copper, one of the horses ridden by Eddie Dean in his films
•     Gunpowder, Constable Ichabod Crane’s horse in the film The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
•     Phillip, Edmund’s horse from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
•     Little Blackie, from the John Wayne film True Grit
•     Spirit, buckskin stallion from Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
•     Napoleon, Snoe’s gray cart horse and The Black’s stable mate in the film The Black Stallion
•     The Horse of a Different Color, from The Wizard of Oz
•     Joey, from the movie War Horse
•     April Love, from April Love (1957)
•     Beau, from True Grit with John Wayne
•     Gulliver, from The Horse Whisperer book and film of the same name
•     Checkers, from Moondance Alexander
•     Flicka, from Flicka (based on the book “My Friend Flicka”)
•     Oliver Hardy, at the end of Flying Deuces; after he died in a plane crash, he was reincarnated as a horse
•     Maximus, horse featured in the animated film Tangled
•     Gypsy, Meggie MacWade’s horse, which undertakes a 500-mile journey over treacherous terrain to be reunited with her in Gypsy Colt
•     Sprout, from The Parent Trap

•     Sonny, Joe’s horse in My Outlaw Brother
•     Aldebaran, Antares, Rigel and Altair from Ben-Hur (one of four from the chariot race)
•     Taff/Bo, the main horse character in Disney’s Ride a Wild Pony
•     Lucky Number Slevin, from the movie of the same name
•     Pepper, from Two Bits and Pepper (1995)
•     Bucephalus, from The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Alexander
•     Khartoum, the ill-fated horse from The Godfather
•     Don, talking horse from Hot to Trot
•     Pie, Velvet Brown’s horse from National Velvet
•     Blue Boy, race horse from Laurel and Hardy’s 1929 comedy short, Wrong Again
•     Cochise, the Appaloosa stallion ridden by John Wayne in the movie El Dorado
•     Bad Horse, from Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
•     Diablo, the black and white pinto from the Cisco Kid movies
•     Two Bits, from Two Bits and Pepper (1995)

•     Dover, race horse from My Fair Lady (does not appear on screen)
•     Nurah and Thebes, the horses of Pharaoh Ramses from Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 The Ten Commandments
•     Pilgrim, troubled, injured horse from The Horse Whisperer book and movie
•     Conquistador, the General’s horse stolen and rescued by Pablito from The Littlest Outlaw
•     Tolo, gelding from The Long Shot
•     Artax, Atreyu’s Horse from The NeverEnding Story
•     The Black Stallion, from The Black Stallion and The Black Stallion Returns, based on Walter Farley’s books; played by the Arabian stallion Cass Ole
•     Shadowfax from Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
•     Goliath, from Ladyhawke
•     Hidalgo, paint stallion from the movie of the same name (disputed)
•     Ginger, from Black Beauty
•     Beric, from Knights of the Round Table, Lancelot’s horse with Robert Taylor
•     Denny, the buckskin gelding of The Man From Snowy River (also appeared in the sequel, The Man from Snowy River II)
•     Dollar, the horse of John Wayne’s character (John Bernard “J.B.” Books) in The Shootist, 1976
•     Tír na nÓg from Into the West
•     Flash, from Flash