This list includes actual horses that exist in the historical record.
Famous horses
Bamboo Harvester, portrayed a talking horse in the title role of the TV series Mister Ed, retired in Shasta County Benjamin, a Belgian Warmblood who portrayed the King's horse, Maximus, ridden by Lee Min-ho in the TV series The King: Eternal Monarch Brooklyn Supreme, said to be the largest horse in history Burmese, favourite mount of Queen Elizabeth II; a gift from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Buttermilk, Dale Evans' horse Champion, Gene Autry's horse Clever Hans, a smart horse D'Arcy Yellow Turk, early foundation stallion with at least 4 lines of descent each to the three foundation sire champion racehorses of Thoroughbreds: Eclipse, Herod, and Matchem Darley Arabian, Godolphin Arabian and Byerly Turk, stallions from whom all Thoroughbreds are descended Figure (also known by the name of one of his owners, Justin Morgan), the foundation sire of the Morgan horse breed Gun Rock, the offspring of Man O' War used in the 1920s at UC Davis to breed horses for the U.S. Army Cavalry Hollywood Dun It, all-time leading reining sire and Quarter Horse Incitatus, Emperor Caligula's favorite horse; may have been proposed as a senator Jim, former milk cart horse used to produce diphtheria antitoxin; contamination of this antitoxin inspired the Biologics Control Act of 1902 King, a foundation sire of the Quarter Horse breed Marocco or Bankes's Horse, a late 16th- and early 17th-century English performing horse Muhamed, German horse allegedly capable of solving cubic roots Occident: a brown pacing gelding owned by Leland Stanford used in The Horse in Motion Old Bob, Abraham Lincoln's horse Popcorn Deelites, the main horse who played Seabiscuit in the Oscar Nominated film Seabiscuit Prometea, born May 28, 2003, the first cloned horse and the first to be born from and carried by its cloning mother Rugged Lark, famous quarter horse owned by Carol Harris, in the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame Sampson, the tallest horse ever recorded; a Shire; stood 21.2½ hands high Sardar: stallion presented as a gift to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy by President Ayub Khan on her visit to Pakistan Spanker was a 17th century sire of many important horses. Thunder, Red Ryder's horse Traveler, mascot of the University of Southern California Trigger, Roy Rogers' Palomino Warpaint, mascot of the NFL Kansas City Chiefs Zippo Pine Bar Inducted into American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame and National Snaffle Bit Association Hall of Fame
Military horses
Babieca, horse of El Cid
Black Jack, the last Quartermaster-issued U.S. Army horse, died February 6, 1976
Blueskin, one of Washington's two primary mounts during the American Revolutionary War Bucephalus, favorite horse of Alexander the Great; one of the most famous horses of antiquity; following his death after the Battle of Hydaspes in 326 BCE, Alexander promptly founded the city of Bucephala upon the spot in his memory Chetak, war horse of Maharana Pratap of Mewar in India; died defending its master in 1576 during the Battle of Haldighati Cincinnati, one of Ulysses S. Grant's horses Comanche, only documented survivor of General Custer's 7th Cavalry detachment at the Battle of Little Big Horn Copenhagen, the Duke of Wellington's favourite horse, which he rode at the Battle of Waterloo Dhūljānāḥ, the horse of Husayn ibn Ali in the Battle of Karbala Favorito, the personal horse of Charles Albert of Savoy, King of Sardinia from 1831 to the king’s death in 1849 Kasztanka, mare that belonged to interwar Poland's leader, Marshal Józef Piłsudski Llamrei, horse of King Arthur Marengo, Napoleon's horse which was captured by the British, and outlived Napoleon by eight years Matsukaze, personal horse of Maeda Keiji Nelson, one of Washington's two primary mounts during the American Revolutionary War Palomo, main horse of Simón Bolívar Reckless, became a decorated Marine for carrying supplies and ammunition into battle for the US Marine platoon in the Korean War Red Hare, also known as Chitu, Lü Bu's horse from the Three Kingdoms; inspired the phrase "Among men: Lü Bu. Among horses: Red Hare" Sefton, survivor of the Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings in 1982 Streiff, horse of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden at the battle of Lützen (1632) Tencendur, warhorse of King Charlemagne Traveller, Robert E. Lee's horse Veillantif, horse of Roland, a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne Warrior, "Old Warrior", the mount of General Jack Seely in the First World War from 1914 to 1918; awarded the Dickin Medal in 2014
Competition horses
For racehorses, such as Secretariat and Man o' War, see List of racehorses.