Could you name fifty famous cartoon characters off the top of your head? I didn’t think I could … until I got started. I’d wager if you are over 30 years old, you would recognize and know every single one of these characters. For real, every single one. In writing this post I came to realize the sheer volume of cartoon characters that have permanently infiltrated my brain. A famous cartoon character or mascot design seems to have one thing in common: they are incredibly sticky. Like it or not, they invade your head space, and never leave.
If you are like me, some of these characters you grew up with as a kid, others you will have gotten to know and love as an adult. The one’s that made it on this list did so because of their enduring greatness to last beyond mere fad and pull up a permanent place both in popular culture and in our minds. In no particular order, let’s get this started! And naturally, all characters are copyright of their respective owners. Don’t steal them m’kay?
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Mickey Mouse
Joyful, vulnerable, lovable. Mickey came into our hearts and minds decades ago and still reigns supreme. He’s like the Jesus of cartoon characters. -
Eric Theodore Cartman
Eric showed up in the 90’s and will forever leave us laughing … and emotionally scarred.
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Homer Simpson
Homer made us all feel A-OK about being overweight, gluttonous and idiotic. Thanks buddy. -
Popeye
Popeye showed us that all you need is a heart of gold and you’ll be just fine. A pair of killer pipes don’t hurt either.
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Joe Camel
Hey smoking is cool! Right? Er … well, it used to be. Thanks Joe.
ART FROM YOUR DNA
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Garfield
Mischievous, scheming and adorable. Garfield has had us grinning for years and years.
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Charlie Brown
Yet another vulnerable and lovable icon. Charlie made being neurotic totally cool.
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Alvin
Furry, friendly and gifted at turning a catchy tune.
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Tweety Bird
Feathery, friendly and gifted at the art of escape!
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Tom & Jerry
Polar opposites providing some great laughs during their constant fighting.
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Toucan Sam
One of the original cereal icons, Toucan Sam has gone on to grace much more than a cereal box.
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Archie
You can’t stand in a supermarket checkout line without seeing Archie getting into trouble with the girls.
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Fat Albert
In 1967, Bill Cosby introduced us to Fat Albert and his friends. They’ve been making us laugh ever since.
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Linus van Pelt
Brother of Lucy. Friend and unusually smart sidekick to Charlie Brown. Linus showed us we all need our comfort “thing” in some way, shape or form.
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Bart Simpson
Enough said.
ART FROM YOUR DNA
Mighty Mouse
Rocked up in the 1940’s and was one of the original cartoon super stars. Mighty made many things possible for many characters who followed in his footsteps.
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Lucy van Pelt
Bossy, crabby and bad tempered. For all her bad vibes, Lucy had a romantic side that would emerge regarding a certain boy called Schroeder.
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Capt’n Crunch
Introduced in 1963, the Captain has thrived for decades amidst growing competition for our cereal dollars.
Yeah … I knew every single one and it got me thinking about lots that didn’t make your list.
lots of memories. nice pic
lots gr8 memories,bt u need 2add mare what about gummi bears,shera n lots more
hey it is awesome…..
i found it very cute ….
i got all the well known cartoons at one place it is great…..
Calvin and Hobbes, what a great book
i luv all cartoon bt my fav carton iz baby luny tuns
Aye, what a great collection! Did ye not git permission to portray The Brothers Rice (as they are officially called) or was it simply a fact of not finding them because their name is spelled with a “K” instead of a “C”: Rice Krispies, of course! Now, why didn’t Alfred E Neuman make the cut? He doesn’t do any *less* than Hello Kitty or a number of others who did make the grade! Also, any list of cartoon characters is remiss without Marvin the Martian. And what about the Keep On Truckin’ guys? They don’t have names, but everybody’s seen them, to be sure! From the same artist we have Mr Natural and Fkakey Foont, Fritz the Cat, and Devil Girl. (You’ll have to read the story about the creation of the latter yourselves,. as I don’t know y’all and it is racy.)
i love you ! ! ! ! ? ? ?
Those cartoons are really stucks in my heart. Miss my childhood.
I LUV MICKY SO WHY I DON”T LIKE ALL THESE.
REALLY I LIKE ALL THESE CARTOONS.
these all are my favourite
I love these
I love these cartoons
I love all of these characters. Snoopy is my favorite character even though he isn’t listed here.
tweety is my favorite !! yifpi
Your Comments: What about Underdog. “There’s no need to fear Underdog is here!”
Where is Woody woodpecker???????? grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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i agree with u……..
snoopy you 4got snoopy
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i love cartoons, i miss my childhood so much. very happy seeing all this .
Oh btw, it is scooby tht is the worlds most famous great dane and not shaggy ! and you forgot snoopy ! and the woodpecker!
So cute!!!!!
i love all of them
so sweet
Great choices but many were left out and you could easily make it 100 choices, if not a thousand.
what about the three eds from ed edd n eddy?
Nice pics all of that are my favourite cartoons exept the girls cartoon like betty boop
i love south park homer bart mickey elmer fud brings back funny memeeroys lol
I love Mickey Mouse no #1
Oh btw, it is scooby tht is the worlds most famous great dane and not shaggy ! and you forgot snoopy ! and the woodpecker!
PETER GRIFFIN?!!!!!!!
sorry but all this text is false!!!!!because it is missing most people’s favourite character goku,gohan,vegeta…….in dragonball !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i miss the cartoon character like mighty moouse lol 🙂 ahhahaha… the old cartoon character… 😀
I am love in cartoon I like it an the cartoon
Nice pics come with nice characters , i used to adore this characters when i was young !!!!! and i still 😀
Your Comments love mickey and other cartoons thought minie and daisy duck might of been there too!
i love cartoon characters, specially Dora, Mickeymouse and Babyjackoqua
I love these all. nice pics.
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I agree w/ those of you who say Woody Woodpecker should be there. He’s one of my favorite cartoon characters, though I don’t care much for the original Woody. That Woody’s pretty annoying! By the way why isn’t Woody Woodpecker as popular as Bugs Bunny! I understand people like Bugs so much because he’s so smart & Woody’s very smart too!
I JUST LUV THOSE PICTURES. SOOOOOOOOOOO CUTEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
so sweet …………….
Hey evryone!!!
Very nice n fascinating collection…….
I guess…chota bheem (the indian cartoon character can be a part of this too)..
you forgot about the jetsons, and yogi bear and boo-boo
hey.nice……………….but where is mugli???????????pink panther and tom and jerry is the best ever and ever
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i love them all they remind me off my old days back them more especially WINNIE THE POOR
I think by now, we can add winx too. My girls at home are absolutely wild about them. And yeah, no power rangers?
With Snoopy and Stewie (Family Guy) in the list…..it would have been perfect. Still….awesome collection! Brought back memories 🙂
i love spidy too much as a fan of him
i want good pictures of the cartoons so that the child can understand it am doing my GCSE’s so please be good i want to get A* or A** or A*** or A**** thanks for sharing it with me thnaks so much
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“i luv all cartoon bt my fav carton iz baby luny tuns”
I’m sorry, I don’t speak Spanish!
i like all the cartoons but i most like Garfield
i am sorry those cartoons who r left !!!!!!
nice site got some nice graff charicters off ya cheers
Your Comments i love the old cartoons. kids are really missing out today. i am looking for the cartoon character in a safari outfit who wears big round glasses. if you could send me a picture, i would be very happy. thanks
its all about old school cartoons…
tom and jerry ha xD
Your Comments It’s weird but this morning I found on google a list of smartest cartoon characters & Woody Woodpecker wasn’t on it! Why would that be? He’s definitely one of the smartest! Wile Coyote on the other hand was on the list & shouldn’t have been. He’s not very smart at all!
i love kenny -sout park ;d is great 🙂
Excuse me(: wheres SPONGEBOB!<33
kenny mccormick is way better than 46????? and wheres kyle stan and butters
its a great feeling looking at these characters…back remembering my childhood….though missing some great character!!!
I love everyone that you mention, great!
its nice…its help me remember my childhood days….but i like tazmanian i like the way it looks
Your Comments how about felix the cat and mr. magoo and gumbie and the canadian officer who saved the girl on the r/r. fighting that ugly vilan ?
Such a lovely collection! 😀 you described the characters very well. I really enjoyed reading this entry :I thank you
i love those cartoon character who inspired people especially children to do the write things that’s why some of the cartoon character are still existing in man’s heart and mind as well. its really overwhelming to see those cartoon character again. how i wish i can reminisced all my childhood memories. thanks to the world of animation.
Well, I don’t know if I completely agree with the order but there wasn’t a single unrecognizable character on the list so good job.
i love all of this cartoons
haha alla r so swt i wish 2 see dam in real 😀 HAS LOV ALL CARTOON:) 😉 <3 :O 😀
big sam 🙁
DONT 4GET THE BOONDOCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
these character’s are nice but their should be more
Your Comments i like all this character but where is mandrak the magician & archi
like it 🙂
Your Comments remember giagantor and what abot speed racer
Really cute. I love all of them. Thanks for sharing 🙂
i love tom and jerry i am proud to be famous with that cartoon other than
spiderman n superman my brother say no monkey can touch
TOM N JERRY
TOM N JERRY MY FOV CARTOON
MY BROTHER SAY NOMONKEY CAN TOUCH
TOM N JERRY
where the hell is spongebob and patrick
I’m glad Snoopy’s not on the list, He wasn’t that great and funny I don’t think otherwise I found him annoying first and then I could not even stand him at all at last.
hi I love this helped heaps for an assignment for school thanks!
YAY!! So many memories from my childhood are right here… They will never die!!! Ever!!!!!!!
Calvin and Hobbes first love for sure, Jughead a close second. I love that Jughead rarely ever has his eyes open. Creative genius, I think.
all time best cartoon characters… nice collection
i love tweety d MOST..:*
I like wonder woman she is superb.
Kids are really missing out all kids care about now are video games, T.V. shows with explosions and lasers, and electronics. Mine won’t even go outside and we have a huge tree for climbing a basketball hoop and a swimming pool what more could you need!
ok so im drawing many different cartoon characters on a canvas and you know i had to throw micky mouse on it. im actually doing it for this girl who goes to my school . i wish i could show all you guys how its coming out. but i guess i just hope she likes it. so far i got micky, domo, kenny, pikachu,hello kitty, and gir. Next will be like tweety, yoshi, one of those characters from dispicable me, snoopy, oh and jack and sally (: <3
Shaggy and Donald RULE!!!!!!
you forgot 2 icons…. Felix the Cat and the Jetsons
I like very much these cartoons
What? No Beavis and Butthead?!
Aye, what a great collection! Did ye not git permission to portray The Brothers Rice (as they are officially called) or was it simply a fact of not finding them because their name is spelled with a “K” instead of a “C”: Rice Krispies, of course! Now, why didn’t Alfred E Neuman make the cut? He doesn’t do any *less* than Hello Kitty or a number of others who did make the grade! Also, any list of cartoon characters is remiss without Marvin the Martian. And what about the Keep On Truckin’ guys? They don’t have names, but everybody’s seen them, to be sure! From the same artist we have Mr Natural and Fkakey Foont, Fritz the Cat, and Devil Girl. (You’ll have to read the story about the creation of the latter yourselves,. as I don’t know y’all and it is racy.)
How could you not include SpongeBob?!
Other than that major omission, the list was great 🙂 Especially love Calvin and Hobbes and the pic you have is adorable 😀
Where is snoopy and Pinocchio th
Smurfs and oggynd the cockroaches they are the best
I LOVE MICKEY MOUSE THE MOST
You forgot Stewie, SpongeBob, Finn the Human, Jake the Dog, Peter, Patrick, Phineas, Ferb, Perry, and thats all you forgot.
this was great! i …………… LOVED IT SOO MUCH BRINGS BACK SOO MAY MEMORIES
I lové Tom & Jerry
I am only 14 and I recognized all but one of those characters. I am amazed at how many cartoon characters I knew, it all comes down to having a grandpa and a dad who were (and still are) addicted to cartoons. And my dad being an artist, has a book of cartoon characters that you can be thought how to draw. I love cartoons and will continue loving them.
I was born in the 50’s and there are three (3) I’ve never heard off.
Where is I R BABOON?
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